CVR (Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister)

The Danish Business Authority (Erhvervsstyrelsen) manages the Central Business Register (CVR), known as Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister.

CVR is the official government registry for all businesses in Denmark and Greenland and serves as the authoritative source for company data, including legal entities, ownership, financial data and registration details.

This source provides data covering all business types except personally owned companies with an annual turnover lower than 50,000 DKK.

Properties

Data attributes

The Data Verification API provides the following attributes from CVR:

• Basic (e.g. company name, registration date, legal status, industry, address, organisation type)
• Ownership (e.g. beneficial owners, founders)
• Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs) (e.g. ultimate beneficial owners)
• Roles (e.g. board members, managers, audit firms)
• Authorisation and signatory rights (e.g. signing combination, where available)

API requests

To make an API call to the Organisation Basic endpoint and retrieve data from CVR, build your API request URL like:

https://api.signicat.com/info/lookup/countries/{country}/organizations/{id}?source={source}&rawJson=true

Note the following parameters in the request:

• id: The company registration number.
• country: One or more ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, separated by commas. For example: dk.
• source: The data provider or screening source (dk-cvr).

For example, you can look up information about Novo Nordisk (id:24256790) in Denmark (country: dk) by sending this request:

https://api.signicat.com/info/lookup/countries/dk/organizations/24256790?source=dk-cvr&rawJson=true

Test data

You can use the following organisation registration numbers (id) for testing the data source:

Company registration number	Company name	Notes
36887613	Legoland ApS
50574911	IKEA A/S
36074906	Creditsafe Denmark ApS
43556541	(r)Evolution ApS
30946537	DenFriePresse Danmark	No signers identified
24256790	Novo Nordisk	No signers identified