Company Records for Switzerland, on demand
Company Records for Switzerland come from the official register, Zefix – Central Business Name Index. US$19.00 per record. Registry-only, not aggregated, not resold.
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Switzerland at a glance
A record returns 8 company data fields, 4 for controlling entities and 3 for shareholders and beneficial owners. 2 official filings are included: Registry Extract, Company Registration.
- Official register
- Zefix – Central Business Name Index
- Documents included
- Registry Extract, Company Registration
- Controlling entities
- Published by the register
- Shareholders & beneficial owners
- Published by the register
- Price per record
- US$19.00
What a company record for Switzerland contains
Documents in a company record for Switzerland
- Registry Extract
- Company Registration
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- Commercial register extrait - certified
- Register document - certified
- Statutes - certified
- Certificate of incorporation - certified
Central Business Name Index (Zefix)
Known locally as Zentraler Firmenindex (Zefix).
Switzerland keeps its commercial register at cantonal level: each cantonal commercial register office maintains the entries for entities seated in its canton, and register fees are exclusively a cantonal matter. Federal oversight sits with the Federal Commercial Registry Office (EHRA) in the Federal Office of Justice, which operates Zefix, the Central Business Name Index (Zentraler Firmenindex). Zefix is updated daily, publishes the core data of every legal entity registered in Switzerland, such as name, legal seat and domicile address, and links each entity to the online extract of the responsible cantonal register office.
Every active business in Switzerland is given a standardised enterprise identification number (UID), written in the format CHE-xxx.xxx.xxx. The UID register behind it is maintained by the Federal Statistical Office, and a Zefix search works with the UID as well as the business name.
Beneficial ownership is changing. Parliament adopted the Transparency of Legal Entities Act (TJPG) on 26 September 2025, and from 1 October 2026 companies and other legal entities must report their beneficial owners to the Swiss transparency register kept by the Federal Office of Justice. Company Records already resolves beneficial ownership by following the registered shareholders up the ownership chain, entity by entity, from official registry filings, without depending on that register. The Company Records report for Switzerland provides the registry extract and company registration sourced from the official register.
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