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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Graphing the Norwegian company ownership structure</div>
  24       <div class="date">15th June 2015</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>It is a bit work to figure out the ownership structure of companies
  26 in Norway.  The information is publicly available, but one need to
  27 recursively look up ownership for all owners to figure out the complete
  28 ownership graph of a given set of companies.  To save me the work in
  29 the future, I wrote a script to do this automatically, outputting the
  30 ownership structure using the Graphviz/dotty format.  The data source
  31 is web scraping from <a href="http://www.proff.no/">Proff</a>, because
  32 I failed to find a useful source directly from the official keepers of
  33 the ownership data, <a href="http://www.brreg.no/">Brønnøysundsregistrene</a>.</p>
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  35 <p>To get an ownership graph for a set of companies, fetch
  36 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/brreg-norway-ownership-graph">the code from git</a> and run it using the organisation number.  I'm
  37 using the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet as an example here, as its
  38 ownership structure is very simple:</p>
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  40 <pre>
  41 % time ./bin/eierskap-dotty 958033540 > dagbladet.dot
  42
  43 real    0m2.841s
  44 user    0m0.184s
  45 sys     0m0.036s
  46 %
  47 </pre>
  48
  49 <p>The script accept several organisation numbers on the command line,
  50 allowing a cluster of companies to be graphed in the same image.  The
  51 resulting dot file for the example above look like this.  The edges
  52 are labeled with the ownership percentage, and the nodes uses the
  53 organisation number as their name and the name as the label:</p>
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  55 <pre>
  56 digraph ownership {
  57 rankdir = LR;
  58 "Aller Holding A/s" -> "910119877" [label="100%"]
  59 "910119877" -> "998689015" [label="100%"]
  60 "998689015" -> "958033540" [label="99%"]
  61 "974530600" -> "958033540" [label="1%"]
  62 "958033540" [label="AS DAGBLADET"]
  63 "998689015" [label="Berner Media Holding AS"]
  64 "974530600" [label="Dagbladets Stiftelse"]
  65 "910119877" [label="Aller Media AS"]
  66 }
  67 </pre>
  68
  69 <p>To view the ownership graph, run "<tt>dotty dagbladet.dot</tt>" or
  70 convert it to a PNG using "<tt>dot -T png dagbladet.dot >
  71 dagbladet.png</tt>".  The result can be seen below:</p>
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  73 <img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-15-ownership-graphs-norway-dagbladet.png" width="80%">
  74
  75 <p>Note that I suspect the "Aller Holding A/S" entry to be incorrect
  76 data in the official ownership register, as that name is not
  77 registered in the official company register for Norway.  The ownership
  78 register is sensitive to typos and there seem to be no strict checking
  79 of the ownership links.</p>
  80
  81 <p>Let me know if you improve the script or find better data sources.
  82 The code is licensed according to GPL 2 or newer.</p>
  83
  84 <p>Update 2015-06-15: Since the initial post I've been told that
  85 "<a href="http://www.proff.dk/firma/carl-allers-etablissement-aktieselskab/københavn-v/hovedkontorer/13624518-3/">Aller
  86 Holding A/S</a>" is a Danish company, which explain why it did not
  87 have a Norwegian organisation number.  I've also been told that there
  88 is a <a href="http://www.brreg.no/automatiske/webservices/">web
  89 services API available</a> from Brønnøysundsregistrene, for those
  90 willing to accept the terms or pay the price.</p>
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