please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message bisnode ab type publicly traded aktiebolag industry business information information technology services research software founded 1989 headquarters stockholm sweden area served europe key people lars pettersson ceo ingrid e. engstr m chairman revenue sek 3.935 million 2012 1 operating income sek 64.1 million 2012 1 profit sek 205.8 million 2012 1 total assets sek 5.912 billion end 2012 1 total equity sek 0.847 billion end 2012 1 owner ratos ab 70 % bonnier ab 30 % number of employees 2 893 end 2012 1 website bisnode.com bisnode is a company that offers decision support in the form of digital business marketing and credit information . founded in 1989 bisnode is owned to 70 percent by ratos and to 30 percent by bonnier . bisnode is present in 19 european countries and has its headquarters in stockholm sweden . the company s revenue is just under sek 4 billion . contents 1 history 2 bisnode s ceos 3 staff 4 international offices 5 references 6 external links history edit bisnode traces its roots back to sveriges handelskalender a trade directory which was founded in 1859 and became the starting pistol for bonnier s business information operations . in 1982 bonnier owned aff rsdata started publishing business information digitally . in 1986 bonnier gave tech entrepreneur lars save and bonnier executive h kan ramsin a budget of 15 million sek to create a business plan for making digital business information services profitable . in 1989 bisnode s predecessor bonnier business services was founded . during the first half of the 1990s the company carried out a number of acquisitions of different sizes . it specialized in purchasing problem companies and making them flourish . in 1999 bonnier s business information was separated from the customer information operations and named bonnier aff rsinformation baf . in 2005 the private equity company ratos acquired 70 percent of baf who in turn purchased infodata from ratos . in 2006 the group was renamed bisnode . in 2012 under the leadership of the new ceo lars pettersson a major change was set in motion with the goal to unite all bisnode owned companies in europe under the bisnode brand . completed in 2014 bisnode s 9 400 square meter head office building is situated alongside the e4 in solna . bisnode s ceos edit lars save 1989 2008 johan wall 2008 2012 lars pettersson 2012 2015 staff edit bisnode has around 3 000 employees in 19 european countries . about 1 000 a third of the group s people are based in sweden and make up around half of bisnode s revenue . broken down by sex approximately 46 percent of bisnode s employees are female and 54 per cent are male . the average age is 34 . citation needed international offices edit bisnode has offices in these 19 countries sweden switzerland denmark slovakia norway hungary finland czech republic estonia croatia belgium bosnia and hercegovina netherlands serbia france poland germany slovenia austria references edit a b c d e f bisnode annual report 2012 . retrieved 25 april 2014 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bisnode & oldid 714852905 categories credit rating agencieshidden categories articles needing additional references from april 2016all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aissvenska edit links this page was last modified on 12 april 2016 at 06 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view