Collectia Group
Collectia is a modern IT company specializing in debt recovery. With more than 150 years of experience, we utilize leading technologies, legal counselors, and debt advisors to help companies recover their unpaid invoices.
Our philosophy is that unpaid bills are usually due to an oversight or mistake. Therefore, everyone deserves fair and respectful treatment. By helping our clients through professional, respectful, and intelligent customer management, we optimize our client’s cash flows and minimize the financial loss on bad payers while maintaining a good relationship between them and their customers.
As a Collectia client, you get access to our full-service debt collection solution. This means that we offer handling of everything in the field of debtor management, such as invoices, reminders, collection warnings, administration of payment agreements, collection service, and legal processing. In addition, we also offer Qatchr, our credit rating tool, to credit check and monitor the clients’ customers and suppliers to ensure safe and profitable business.
Collectia is owned by Silverfleet Capital, a leading private equity firm with more than 30 years of investment experience in medium-sized European companies. Since 2016, Collectia has been on an ambitious expansion journey consisting of several acquisitions in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, and Denmark.
Alongside the journey, we have launched the project ‘Going Green’ to create a greener Collectia as we grow. Acting responsibly toward clients, their customers, our employees, the environment, and society is deeply embedded in our organizational culture. It brings value to our business and our fellow human beings.
About us
Collectia is a Pan Nordic debt collection agency that helps both small and large businesses with collecting outstanding debt from their customers in a respectful but effective way. In recent years, we have been on an ambitious growth journey that includes company acquisitions in Germany, Sweden, Finland, and Norway where we operate today.
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Our purpose
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To support a healthy economy by handling debt collection in a professional, respectful, and fair manner. We offer full transparency to our customers as well as to debtors, and we aspire to be frontrunners in digital development with all modern communication platforms as well as easy payment solutions.
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To be known as the leading digital, efficient, and fair partner in the European credit management industry.
We live by our values
At Collectia we work according to four core values that permeate our way of thinking and working in everyday life. Values are often something we just talk about, but at Collectia we live by them.
Respectful
We respect the individuals we help in their current situation. This applies to debtors who we advise on how to handle their bad debt, customers who rely on Collectia to help them collect their debt and our employees to whom Collectia provides a positive work environment built on trust, equality, and diversity.
Passionate
The employees of Collectia are dedicated and passionate. They devote themselves to their work and are enthusiastic. We want our customers to feel our commitment and therefore it is of great importance to train employees to develop the right attitude and approach.
Transparent
This is a very important value for Collectia. We manage your money and customer relationships, and therefore honesty is really important to us. We are honest in everything we do, so there is complete transparency for our clients, employees, and shareholders.
Innovative
We evaluate our processes and systems continuously. We are curious to find new and better approaches, to think differently and to be at the forefront of new trends. It shows in the way we work with data and process digitalization, as well as our ongoing optimization efforts.
The journey
Collectia has come a long way since it was founded back in 1998. Growing from a small Danish company to an international pan-Nordic IT company focusing on credit scoring and management. Collectia has grown from 50 employees in Denmark to nearly 300 employees across our offices in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Germany.
Founded
The company was established in the Danish market in 1998.
Acquired by Findos Capital
Collectia is acquired by the British capital fond Findos Investor.
Opens office in Sweden
Opens an office in Sweden, Malmö. The first market expansion of many to come.
Expands to Germany
Expands its business by acquiring the German debt collection company PNO Inkasso. The office is located in Bavaria and operates throughout Germany.
Acquires two Swedish companies
Two Swedish debt collection companies are welcomed into the Collectia family. OpusCapita Kredithanterarna AB and Svenska Fakturaköp AB are located in Sundbyberg and Solna, respectively, close to Stockholm.
Expands to Norway
Acquires the Norwegian debt collection company, Crone AS. A unique opportunity to offer our existing customers a Nordic solution.
Acquired by Silverfleet Capital
Acquired by UK private equity firm Silverfleet Capital, which has an ambitious expansion strategy aimed at continuing to grow our business internationally.Â
Acquires Dr. Duve Inkasso GmbH
Acquires the German debt collection company Dr. Duve Inkasso GmbH (DDI). DDI provides debt collection services in Germany and focuses on the private sector, including the pharmaceutical industry.
Acquires Kredinor A/S
Collectia acquires the Danish part of Kredinor (former KIS), as part of our ambitious expansion strategy. The acquisition will complement our existing business, positively support our further development and create even more value for you as a client.
Launches credit rating platform
Collectia launches its credit rating platform Qatchr. A user-friendly platform that gives Danish businesses a complete and accurate insight into the financial situation of customers and suppliers.
Acquires Equity Gruppen AS
Collectia strengthens its position in the Norwegian market with the acquisition of the well-established debt collection company, Equity Gruppen AS. Crone and Equity Gruppen will merge into Collectia Norge A/S.
Anders Rosenbeck becomes CEO of Collectia
Collectia welcomes our new CEO Anders Rosenbeck. An experienced business leader who has worked in senior roles in the financial and IT sectors.