The Compass Group is the leading provider of business information in Austria. We have been providing Austrian businesses with reliable and up-to-date data for more than 155 years.
The finance industry and insurance industry, institutional organisations, telecommunication businesses and service providers as well as the industrial sector rank among our long-standing customers. The services are directly used in customer applications via the Compass websites or standardised interfaces (Compass API).
Tailor-made offers for different business sizes and applications
Wirtschafts-Compass ("Business-Compass") as the main product offers a comprehensive overview of Austria's business entities. Our subsidiary HF Data, the largest clearing office for online databases of the Republic of Austria, provides Business Register excerpts and Land Register excerpts, as well as all data from the Central Register of Residents.
In addition, firmeninfo.at provides small and medium-sized enterprises with up-to-date business information and marketing addresses on demand.
Additional information portals like apo24.at or ZEDHIA, an online archive on the history of European economics, complete the range of online services.
Your reliable and innovative partner for more than 155 years
Compass-Verlag was founded as an address book publisher in Vienna in 1867. As early as in 1995 all business information contained in the book editions was available online. Today approximately 90 employees work for the Compass Group in Vienna.
The Compass Group additionally uses its know-how in various research projects and passes its experiences on to start-ups as one of the most active Business Angels and early stage investor.
