Looking for our archives? Find them here. Wondering who we are? Read on!
Since 1974, we have been preserving and telling the history of business. We assist companies with professional archival solutions and help them leverage their heritage in storytelling — history marketing. These services are offered by Centrum för Näringslivshistoria CfN AB, wholly owned by the non-profit Föreningen Centrum för Näringslivshistoria. The non-profit houses our research secretariat where we conduct independent research, research preparatory projects, and educational activities for high school.
Looking for our archives? Find them here. Wondering who we are? Read on!
We work with business history: We are a non-profit association whose members are the companies that purchase services from our service company. Our financing thus comes both from membership fees and contract revenues. The additional research projects we also conduct, from our research secretariat, are funded by various research foundations. We are politically independent and are not affiliated with any university or organization.
We have physical and digital archives. Today we handle 87,000 shelf meters from over 300 depositors. We offer both physical storage and e-archives. Naturally, the depositing company owns its material, we just manage it. Anybode who wants to search the archives, has to get permissions from the archive owner - we help you apply.
We help companies leverage their history. We help companies use their heritage for business growth - history marketing. We can do everything from research to finished books, films, websites, exhibitions, and more. Always keeping in mind that the company's heritage should propel it forward. We even help companies that don't have an archive.
We run academic research projects: The corporate archives that we manage are constantly being researched, by ourselves and others. From our research secretariat, we conduct independent research and also initiate preparatory research projects – often with universities and academic institutions. All based on the many archives deposited with us.
We offer free school programs: For secondary schools (gymnasium), we offer free class visits focusing on source criticism and Swedish business history. And on our school website Företagskällan, there is ready-made lesson material for all gymnasium programs.
We are a book publisher: For many years we researched, wrote, and designed books that were published by others. Since 2016, we publish books under our own publishing name, Förlaget Näringslivshistoria (Business History Publishing).
We've been doing this since 1974: Back then we were called Stockholms Företagsminnen (loosely, Stockholm Business Memories). But the business grew and we now handle corporate archives from all over the country – so in 2006 we changed to Centre for Business History in Stockholm.
