Public data concerning enterprises, corporations and their establishments described on this page can be ordered from the Business Register. All public data are listed on the page.
The publicity of the data in the Business Register is based on the Statistics Act.
The following data are available on enterprises and corporations:
The Business Identity Code, or Business ID, is a code assigned to enterprises and organisations by the Finnish Patent and Registration Office or the Tax Administration. The code consists of seven digits, a hyphen and a control number, i.e. it is in the form 1234567-8.
The Business ID identifies the enterprise. However, the Business ID alone does not indicate whether the enterprise is registered in the Tax Administration's registers or in the Trade Register. This information must be checked separately in the Business Information System’s enterprise search, with the Finnish Patent and Registration Office or with the Tax Administration.
The Business Register uses the official name of a legal unit and the business name of a natural person. The official name of a legal unit includes an identifier of the company form, such as Limited Company/Ltd or Limited Partnership. Names for enterprises are obtained to the Business Register from the Tax Administration and they are congruent with the names of the enterprises in the Business Information System.
The postal address is the address to which an enterprise or an enterprise-type unit wishes to receive its postal delivery. The postal address is formed of the street address (name and number of the street/road) or a P.O. Box address as well as the postal code and the post office.
The municipality of domicile of the enterprise is the domicile defined by the Finnish Patent and Registration Office and the Tax Administration. For legal persons, the domicile is the municipality specified in the memoranda of association and entered in the Trade, Foundation or Association Register and it must be located in Finland. For natural persons, the domicile of the Finnish Patent and Registration Office is the place of business and the municipality of domicile according to the Tax Administration’s Population Information System. Further information about regional classifications on Statistics Finland’s classifications pages.
The sub-regional unit to which the enterprise's municipality of domicile belongs. Further information about regional classifications on Statistics Finland’s classifications pages.
The region to which the enterprise's municipality of domicile belongs. Further information about regional classifications on Statistics Finland’s classifications pages.
The number includes the area code and the telephone number. The area code has no more than four digits and the telephone number at least four digits.
The industry of the enterprise has been defined in accordance with the Standard Industrial Classification 2008 (TOL 2008). An industry is defined independently for all enterprises and actual establishments at the most detailed level of the industrial classification. The industry of an ancillary establishment is usually the same as the enterprise's main industry.
The main industry of a multi-establishment enterprise is defined according to the value added generated at its establishments engaged in different economic activities. The value added corresponds closely to increase in value. The value added for the industries of an enterprise is obtained by multiplying the number of employees in each establishment by the average value added it creates in its industry and by proportioning the obtained figure to the duration of its activity in the accounting period within the statistical year. The main industry of the enterprise is the industry with the largest value added in the accounting period. The definition of the main industry proceeds in stages from the alphabetical code to the most detailed level of the industrial classification.
The purity percentage of the enterprise’s industry describes how many per cent of the turnover of a multi-establishment enterprise is accumulated from the industry recorded as the main industry
0 = not known
1 = –4 persons
2 = 5–9 persons
3 = 10–19
4 = 20–49
5 = 50–99
6 = 100–249
7 = 250–499
8 = 500–999
9 = 1 000–
0 = not known
1 = –4 persons
2 = 5–9
3 = 10–19
4 = 20–49
5 = 50–99
6 = 100–149
7 = 150–199
8 = 200–249
9 = 250–299
10 = 300–399
11 = 400–499
12 = 500–749
13 = 750–999
14 = 1 000–1 249
15 = 1 250–1 499
16 = 1 500–1 999
17 = 2 000–2 499
18 = 2 500–
1 = not yet known
2 = does not conceptually exist
3 = –199 999
4 = 200 000-399 999
5 = 400 000-999 999
6 = 1 000 000-1 999 999
7 = 2 000 000-9 999 999
8 = 10 000 000-19 999 999
9 = 20 000 000 –
1 = not yet known
2 = does not conceptually exist
3 = 1–99 999
4 = 100 000–199 999
5 = 200 000–399 999
6 = 400 000–999 999
7 = 1 000 000–1 999 999
8 = 2 000 000–4 999 999
9 = 5 000 000–9 999 999
10 = 10 000 000–19 999 999
11 = 20 000 000–49 999 999
12 = 50 000 000–99 999 999
13 = 100 000 000–249 999 999
14 = 250 000 000–499 999 999
15 = 500 000 000–
The starting date of the Business ID is obtained from the Tax Administration. The starting date is the starting time of tax control, that is, it corresponds to the time when the enterprise was registered in the preliminary tax withholding register. The starting time is in the form yyyymmdd. Reliable starting from 1982.
The ending date of the Business ID is obtained from the Tax Administration. The ending date is the time when tax control was terminated, that is, it corresponds to the time when the enterprise was removed from the preliminary tax withholding register. The ending time is in the form yyyymmdd.
Statistics Finland’s classification of legal forms is based on legal forms used by the Tax Administration.
Legal forms:
01 Natural person
10 General partnership
11 Limited partnership
12 Limited company
13 Housing company
14 Shipping company under joint ownership
16 Mutual joint-stock property company
17 Other joint-stock property company (not mutual)
18 Enterprise group
19 Other enterprise
20 Voluntary association
21 Association based on separate legislation
22 Mutual indemnity insurance association
23 Forestry society
24 Cooperative bank
25 Cooperative society
26 Mutual benefit society
27 Unemployment fund
28 Other economic association
29 Other association
30 Foundation (according to the Foundations Act)
31 Savings bank
32 Pension foundation (founded by a charter of foundation)
33 Pension fund
35 Mortgage society
39 Other foundation
40 State and its agencies
41 Municipality
42 Joint municipal authority
43 Region of Åland and its agencies
44 Evangelical Lutheran Church
45 Greek Orthodox Church
46 Registered religious community
47 Students' union or association
48 Governmental institution with separate administration
49 Other legal person subject to public law
50 Mutual interest bodies (e.g. fishery collectives)
51 Corporation subject to taxation
52 Body jointly and severally liable for tax withholding
53 Decedent's estate
54 Bankrupt’s estate
55 Jointly owned forest
56 Farm
57 Trade association
59 Other units subject to taxation
60 State-owned company
63 Company owned by the Regional Government of Åland
64 Wellbeing services county
65 Joint county authority for wellbeing services
70 Non-resident corporation
71 Branch of a non-resident corporation in Finland
91 - 96, 99 Others (e.g. temporary legal form)
Classification based on the enterprise's ownership and its extent:
1 = private domestic
2 = state
3 = municipality
4 = region of Åland
5 = foreign-owned *
6 = other owner type
7= wellbeing services county
* Foreign-owned enterprises are enterprises where the share of foreign ownership is over 50 per cent and affiliates of foreign enterprise groups.
0 = Finnish
1 = Swedish
Each enterprise has at least one establishment, the largest have hundreds. An establishment is a unit that is owned by one enterprise, is located in one place, and mainly produces one type of goods or services.
0 Not engaged in international trade
1 Importer
2 Exporter
3 Importer/exporter
An enterprise is an importer/exporter if the value of its goods imports/exports is (relates to both intra-EU and extra-EU trade):
a) over EUR 12,000 per year and divided over at least two months, or
b) over EUR 120,000 per year
1 = Is registered
2 = Is no longer registered
3 = Has never been registered
The Classification of Sectors is a basic classification applied to economic and social statistics for the classification of the activities, financing modes, owner types and legal forms of decision-making units into equivalent categories. The sectors (non-financial corporations, general government, households, etc.) formed with the help of the classification are sufficiently similar in their economic behaviour for national economic monitoring and analysis. Further information about the Classification of Sectors can be found in Statistics Finland’s web service on the Classification of Sectors 2023 page.
The values received by the variable “type classification of business activity” are:
1 = micro enterprise
2 = small enterprise
3 = medium size enterprise
4 = large enterprise
0 = not specified
The type classification is determined separately for each enterprise based on the number of wage and salary earners and turnover and/or balance sheet total, as well as the group relationship.
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) is an international organisational code. More information about LEI can be found on the Finnish Patent and Registration Office’s page.
Two startup data are available: Startup YR10 and startupYR20
A startup is an enterprise which employs at least 10 persons at the beginning of the startup period and during the following three years the average growth of the personnel exceeds 10 per cent on the annual level.
A startup is an enterprise which employs at least 10 persons at the beginning of the startup period and during the following three years the average growth of the personnel exceeds 20 per cent on the annual level.
The following data are available on establishments:
The establishment code is a nine-character code identifying the establishment. The code is issued by Statistics Finland. If the establishment and its activities are transferred from one enterprise to another, its establishment code will not change.
The name of the establishment is the name reported by the enterprise (often empty).
Location address is the address that indicates the geographic location of an enterprise's establishment. The location address is formed of the street address (name and number of the street/road) as well as the postal code and the post office.
Municipality of location discloses the municipality in which an enterprise’s establishment is geographically located. Further information about regional classifications on Statistics Finland’s classifications pages.
The sub-regional unit to which the establishment's municipality of location belongs. Further information about regional classifications on Statistics Finland’s classifications pages.
The region to which the establishment's municipality of location belongs. Further information about regional classifications on Statistics Finland’s classifications pages.
The number includes the area code and the telephone number. The area code has no more than four digits and the telephone number at least four digits.
The industry of the enterprise has been defined in accordance with the Standard Industrial Classification 2008 (TOL 2008). An industry is defined independently for all enterprises and actual establishments at the most detailed level of the industrial classification. The industry of an ancillary establishment is usually the same as the enterprise's main industry.
Size category of personnel:
0 = not known
1 = 0– 4 persons
2 = 5–9 persons
3 = 10–19
4 = 20–49
5 = 50–99
6 = 100–249
7 = 250–499
8 = 500–999
9 = 1 000–
0 = not known
1 = 0–4 persons
2 = 5–9
3 = 10–19
4 = 20–49
5 = 50–99
6 = 100–149
7 = 150–199
8 = 200–249
9 = 250–299
10 = 300–399
11 = 400–499
12 = 500–749
13 = 750–999
14 = 1 000–1 249
15 = 1 250–1 499
16 = 1 500–1 999
The values received by the variable type of establishment are:
1 = actual establishment
2 = ancillary establishment
An actual establishment is a unit owned by a single enterprise or an enterprise-type unit that is located in one place and mainly produces goods or services of one type. An actual establishment generally has both personnel and turnover.
An ancillary establishment supports the production of the enterprise’s actual establishments. An ancillary establishment can be a warehouse or a unit producing administrative or transport services. An ancillary establishment may have wage and salary earners but not turnover. The enterprise’s actual establishments cover the ancillary establishment’s operating expenses (internal delivery).
The date describes the start of the establishment's operation. For multi-establishment enterprises, the starting date of the establishment is usually received through the Business Register's own data collections or through Statistics Finland's data collection for some other set of statistics. For single-establishment enterprises, the starting dates of the establishment are usually the same as the starting dates of the legal unit (Business ID). If there are transfers of the establishment (changes of ownership, company restructurings), the starting date may differ from the starting date of the legal unit. The starting time is in the form yyyymmdd.
The date describes the end of the establishment's operation. For multi-establishment enterprises, the ending date of the establishment is usually received through the Business Register's own data collections or through Statistics Finland's data collection for some other set of statistics. For single-establishment enterprises, the ending dates of the establishment are usually the same as the ending dates of the legal unit (Business ID). If there are transfers of the establishment (changes of ownership, company restructurings), the ending date may differ from the ending date of the legal unit. The ending time is in the form yyyymmdd.
In the Register of Enterprises and Establishments, the location address of the establishment has a map coordinate indicating the geographic location of the establishment in coordinate format. The coordinates are in EUREF-FIN format.
The number of personnel in the municipality is the combined number of personnel of the enterprise's establishments in the municipality.