Establishing a business

Avesta is in a very advantageous situation in Sweden, both for you, your family and your company. Several businesses in a number of sectors have recently chosen to establish here. One example is OKQ8 who re-located their customer service centre from Stockholm in April 2003. They have 34 employees and have noted improvements in their service to customers.

The OKQ8 office manager reports: “Since coming to Avesta, we have made some major adjustments in our organisation. Compared to our record in June 2002, we have increased the share of efficiently handled customer enquiries from 69% to 90%.”

Tillväxt Avesta will ease the process of establishing your business in Avesta.

Links to useful information (in English):
Almi
Almis task is to promote the development of competitive small and medium-sized businesses as well as to stimulate new enterprise with the aim of creating growth and innovation in Swedish business life. Its activity covers the whole process from idea to profitable business. The needs of the clients differ according to which stage in the process they have reached. Activities are therefore organised into three business areas based on the different client needs – Innovation, New Enterprises and Established Businesses. Within these areas, two principal services are offered – financing and business development.

Public Employment Service
Here jobseekers will find available vacancies and employers can advertise vacancies. This information is available to all - 24 hours a day.

Bolagsverket
Who is on the board of a certain company? What is the companys turnover? Is there any reason why I should not associate with this company? Bolagsverket can give you current information on Swedens hundreds of thousands of business enterprises.

Företagarna
Företagarna creates better conditions for starting, running, developing, and owning a business in Sweden. The mission is to promote entrepreneurship, safeguard the rights of business owners, and contribute to a climate in which running a business is easy and appealing. Being an entrepreneur should be simple and it should be worth the effort. Företagarnas watchwords are free trade and free competition. Their goal is for Sweden to regain its former position as one of the most entrepreneur-friendly countries in the world.

Jobs and Society
Jobs and Society stimulates and facilitates the growth of healthy business ventures.
Jobs and Society helps regenerate Swedish trade and industry.
Jobs and Society builds new bridges between businesses via increased co-operation.
Jobs and Society promotes the entrepreneurial spirit.
Jobs and Society strengthens the sense of local community, thus helping the entrepreneurial spirit to propagate from community to community.
Jobs and Society encourages engagement at the local level.
Jobs and Society promotes a broad-based economy and reduces the dependence of individual communities on a dominant employer.
Jobs and Society supports the idea of helping those who help themselves.
Jobs and Society builds and maintains networks for the transmission of experience and business opportunities.
Jobs and Society helps create businesses, which prove to have a high rate of survival.

Länsstyrelsen Dalarna
The function of the County Administrative Boards is to be a representative of the state in their respective counties, and serve as a link between the inhabitants, the municipal authorities, the Central Government, the Swedish Parliament and the central state authorities.

Nutek
Nutek contributes to the creation of new enterprises, more growing enterprises and more strong regions - and consequently to promoting sustainable economic growth and prosperity throughout the country.

PRV
PRV provides protection and exclusive rights for technological ideas, trademarks and industrial designs. If you want to change your personal name, you need to contact PRV. PRV also issue publication certificates for journals, or “periodicals” as they are also known. In addition, PRV offer commission services and courses in all their areas of operation.)

Swedish Tax Agency
For taxes, population registry and estate inventory.

Invest in Dalarna Agency
The Invest in Dalarna Agency (IDA) is a regional agency working closely together with the Invest in Sweden Agency and began its activities in 2001. Its mission is to guide and support foreign investors who wish to set up businesses in the region. The work of IDA is mainly about helping foreign investors make contact with private and public institutions here and informing them about the way Swedish society works.