What information is publicly available about your business in the Trade Register?

The Trade Register is a register for public use. Anyone is entitled to acquire information about the details recorded in the register. This principle of open access also applies to all notifications and enclosures submitted to the Trade Register.

You can decide what address and contact details of your business you want to publish. You must however submit at least one address detail to the Trade Register – either the business street address or postal address. The postal address may be a P.O. Box address. Read more about how to get a P.O. Box address on the Itella website. You do not have to submit any other contact details to the Trade Register.

If you want to publish other contact details, you can submit the business email address, telephone number, fax number, or website address to the Trade Register and the Business Information System (BIS).

The contact details of your business will be available on different information services as soon as your notification has become pending; therefore you may get offers from insurance companies or information service providers even before your business has been entered in the Trade Register. These services by other companies are generally not free.

Please note that the Trade Register never updates its entries by phone. The only way you can update the details of your business in the register is by filing a written notification to the Trade Register.

Easy to change address and contact details

It is free of charge to change or remove address and contact details. The quickest way to change these details is to use our online BIS Service (available in Finnish and in Swedish). You identify yourself to the service by using your personal Internet banking codes. You can also submit the change by using our forms.

Through our Virre Information Service, you can get access to companies’ registered details, such as Trade Register extracts or organisation rules. Basic details of businesses, such as the company name, Business ID, and contact details are free of charge; in addition, you can buy additional details and information products by using your Internet banking codes. A Notification Search lets you monitor how the processing of your notification is proceeding.

The Business Information System (BIS) offers information from the registers of the Trade Register and the Tax Administration free of charge. In BIS, you can view the basic details of companies, such as company type, place of registered office, main line of business and whether a business has been registered at the Trade Register or in any of the registers run by the Tax Administration.

For further information, please contact:
Trade Register’s Advisory Service, tel. +358 9 6939 5900