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About corporate archives

Since 1974, we at the Centre for Business History in Stockholm has helped Swedish businesses with professional archival solutions, building and managing both our own and other corporate archives. Here, we share tips on how to get started with archiving, covering everything from premises and technical language to digital preservation.

What should be saved in a corporate archive?

Which documents are historically relevant and should be preserved for the future? Here you get a general overview with examples of documents worthy of preservation. (Don't forget to then gather them in a professional archive, that is easy to do research in.)

Read the list

This is a good archive depot!

A professional archive depot is offers a secure and stable environment that protects and preserves all your documents and artefacts over time. Here is a short checklist of requirements that a good archive facility should meet.

See the checklist

5 steps to your archive

Follow our five steps to create your corporate archive - and take control of your business legacy. 

Read the full list

Researchers ♥ corporate archives

Over the +50 years we've been around, we've welcomed many researchers. So many that we lost count - until we reviewed all the research that has been done in the business archives we manage. From academics to genealogists, from economic historians and marketers to literature and cultural scholars.  They would all be interested in your archive too - if you have one. 

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We can help with your company's archive!

Since 1974, the Centre for Business History in Stociholm has been helping businesses with professional archive solutions and an active use of history, history marketing. We are the archivists who know how tell a good story. Would you also like help with your company's historical material? Just get in touch!

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