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Business data in Austria. Where the records live.
Austria's roughly 360,000 companies are recorded in the court-run Firmenbuch and searchable free through JustizOnline, a Mittelstand economy of small and family firms with a large tourism and services base.
What Atlas holds for Austria
Source: the Atlas database, updated automatically.
The official records
The legal source of truth for Austria is Firmenbuch.
Austria's legally binding company record is the Firmenbuch, the commercial register run by the courts and searchable free of charge through the JustizOnline portal. Each registered entity carries a Firmenbuchnummer in the form "FN 123456a", a sequential number plus a check letter, returned alongside the legal form, status, address and, frequently, officers and filings. The register holds on the order of 400,000 companies, and because notaries and courts maintain it the data is unusually clean and current; the WKO Firmen A-Z directory of the Federal Economic Chamber adds contact details the Firmenbuch itself does not publish.
Austria's economy is overwhelmingly a Mittelstand of small and family firms, well above 99% are SMEs, clustered in Vienna, Upper Austria around Linz, Styria around Graz and the Tyrolean tourism belt.
How to use the register
- Start from the register, not from a bought list. It is the legal record of every company.
- Read the status field. Registers keep closed companies too. See how many have closed in other registers.
- Check the website belongs to the company, with the registration number or a distinguishing name on the page.
Sources
Descriptions are based on the national sources above. Figures in the text are rounded and change over time. Found an error? Write to atlasforgex@proton.me. More countries: business data by country and registers by country.