Creditsafe acquires Graydon

Global credit data and risk intelligence specialist, Creditsafe has announced the acquisition of Graydon.

Graydon has been in operation for over 130 years and has been for the last 5 years a 100% subsidiary of Atradius the leading global credit insurer. Graydon is the market leader in B2B information services in the Netherlands and Belgium, with a strong presence in the UK market as well.

Both Creditsafe and Graydon are focused on providing integrated business information offering to accelerate the long-term growth and economic stability of their clients. Creditsafe and Graydon together will benefit, and this will drive innovation and grow customer portfolios. Through this deal, Creditsafe will combine its expertise and international coverage with Graydon’s market knowledge and value-added analytical services to help both local companies and their global clients to keep on growing their business.

David Capdevila, CEO of Atradius said “Graydon and its employees have found a strong and solid partner in Creditsafe.We are cooperating with Creditsafe as one of our information providers successfully via our Iberian information provider Iberinform and we are convinced that Graydon will benefit from the unrivalled expertise and market reach of Creditsafe.”

Cato Syversen, CEO of Creditsafe said “In Graydon we saw an opportunity to invest in a well-recognised business and brand to help accelerate our growth in these markets and further develop our market-leadership position in Europe”

Gertjan Kaart, Managing Director of Creditsafe Nederland BV said “We strongly believe that Graydon and Creditsafe together are in a strong position to accelerate sustainable growth and support our customers locally and globally. The fact that Graydon is now a Creditsafe company will be very beneficial for all our clients to access advanced global Creditsafe Solutions in combination with the recognized intelligence solutions of Graydon.”