Creditsafe was founded in 1997 in
Oslo, Norway with the idea of using the then-emerging technology of the internet to supply business information to a market of smaller and medium-sized businesses by selling over the telephone and delivering reports over the internet. Following the Norwegian launch Creditsafe established an office in
Gothenburg Sweden in 1998 before moving to the UK in 2000. Creditsafe re-located the UK sales operation to
Caerphilly in
South Wales in 2002. In 2006 Creditsafe France was launched in
Roubaix near
Lille. Additional entities were later launched in
Dublin in Ireland in 2007 by James Beadle,
The Hague in the
Netherlands in 2008,
Berlin, Germany in 2010,
Brussels, Belgium in 2011 and
Turin in Italy in 2013. Creditsafe moved outside
Europe in 2012 with the founding of Creditsafe United States in
Allentown, Pennsylvania. Since launching in the USA, Creditsafe have now increased its US workforce by opening a new office in
Tempe, Arizona Creditsafe established a shared service centre in
Cardiff Bay,
Wales in 2006 which has grown to support the sales operations around the world. In September 2016, Creditsafe set up its own operation in
Japan.
Creditsafe Japan has its offices in
Fukuoka and
Tokyo == Current status ==