Norway Company Register — Enhetsregisteret Lookup

Look up any of Norway's 1.17 million registered companies by name or organisation number. Legal form, industry, employees, bankruptcy and liquidation status, addresses, and optionally the board. Straight from the state register.

What it does

Enhetsregisteret is Norway's central register of legal entities, run by Brønnøysundregistrene. It is open data with no key, account or fee. What it lacks is a usable shape: the field names are Norwegian, the status flags are scattered across the record, and officers require a second request.

This Actor returns one row per query with 46 fields, the flags collected into booleans and the officers fetched only when asked for.

What you get

46 fields per row, including organisation_number, name, legal_form_name, nace_description, employees, business_city, bankrupt, in_liquidation, vat_registered, founded_on, total_matches, name_match_score and matched_by.

The table view shows 13 of them; all 46 are in the JSON, CSV and Excel downloads.

Input

Field	Meaning
organisationNumbers	Norwegian organisation numbers, exact lookups.
names	Company names to search.
queriesText	A pasted list of either, one per line.
includeRoles	Fetch board members and officers. Off by default.
maxCompanies	Stop after this many. 0 removes the cap.

{
  "organisationNumbers": ["923609016", "974760673"],
  "includeRoles": false,
  "maxCompanies": 100
}

Sample output

One complete record:

{
  "query": "923609016",
  "matched_by": "number",
  "organisation_number": "923609016",
  "name": "EQUINOR ASA",
  "legal_form_name": "Allmennaksjeselskap",
  "nace_description": "Utvinning av råolje",
  "employees": 21239,
  "business_city": "STAVANGER",
  "bankrupt": false,
  "in_liquidation": false,
  "vat_registered": true,
  "founded_on": "1972-09-18",
  "issues": ""
}

Pricing

Event	Per 1,000	Notes
Company resolved	$4.00	Queries that find nothing are not charged

There is no start fee and no per-row dataset fee.

What it does not do

legal_form_name and nace_description are in Norwegian. The register publishes them that way and they are passed through unchanged rather than translated. Allmennaksjeselskap is a public limited company, Aksjeselskap a private one. The numeric codes are also returned for machine use.

No financials. Annual accounts are filed with a different Brønnøysund register and are not part of this data.

Officers are off by default. includeRoles adds a second request per company and most use cases do not need it.

Being absent from the business register is normal. not_in_business_register appears on sole traders and public bodies, which are in the central register without being commercial companies. It is not an error.

Notes

Send organisation numbers where available. They are exact and no match score is needed.

Sort by name_match_score and check the bottom of the list first. That is where wrong matches are.

bankrupt and in_liquidation are the two fields worth screening a supplier list against. Both are booleans, so a filter is enough.

Officers' names retrieved with includeRoles can be screened against sanctions lists. That is a separate job and a separate Actor.

Support

Open the Issues tab with the exact query and the matched_by, total_matches and issues values from the row.

Licence and attribution

Company data from Enhetsregisteret, the Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities, operated by Brønnøysundregistrene, published as open government data under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD). Brønnøysundregistrene does not endorse this Actor.