The Swedish Trade & Invest Council

At a glance

Company profile

The Swedish Trade & Invest Council, through Business Sweden, helps Swedish companies pursue global business opportunities under a combined government and private-sector mandate, providing strategic advice, practical support, market insights, and an extensive contact network. Its services and tools cover business development, market expansion, and global sales growth, with service areas that include Strategic Advisory, Business Support Services, Trade facilitation, Business to Government, and Geopolitical Advisory. For companies growing internationally, Business Sweden's business developers provide strategic and practical support for expansion and global sales, while market insights and programs are offered either free or partially subsidized in many cases. For practical export management, Business Sweden offers advice and training on customs, rules of origin, free trade agreements, delivery terms, international payments, and other procedures related to export and trade regulations. Swedish start-ups and SMEs with global growth potential can use subsidized advice, accelerator programs, and SME export support to begin entering new markets. Business Support Services are delivered by local teams in more than 30 major global markets and address the operational requirements of international expansion, including employment law, local regulations, local presence, workspaces, administration, accounting, HR, and payroll. Establishment services can include advice on legal-entity structure, preparation of incorporation documents, registration with local authorities, opening local bank accounts, workspace support, staffing, and accounting while following local compliance requirements and common practice. Recruitment services cover job descriptions, target profiles, candidate identification, and candidate evaluation, while employment and HR services can employ local resources before a client has its own legal establishment and can support payroll, social-security insurance, tax issues, and local labor-law compliance. Workspace options include open-floor and private-office co-working, shared facilities, conference rooms, receptionist or secretarial support, and virtual-office services that can include a local phone number, call handling, mail forwarding, and access to meeting rooms. Finance and controlling services include day-to-day accounting, payments and invoicing, monthly reporting, local tax filing, audit support, payroll, and HR administration under local legislation and guidelines. Business Sweden states that more than 650 customers use its Business Support Services globally and that its local teams provide tailored services intended to streamline new-market setup.

Exhibits

Business Sweden organizes a Swedish national pavilion that showcases advanced and sustainable solutions from Swedish companies, and it also organizes networking activities including an opening ceremony, dinner, and B2B meetings. The pavilion groups participating capabilities under sustainable and smart manufacturing and advanced process applications, with a focus on innovation, sustainability, engineering, and cross-industry collaboration. The pavilion includes sustainable industrial packaging solutions for semiconductor, electronics, and EV supply chains, with the stated goals of reducing environmental impact and total supply-chain cost. The showcased thermal and fluid-handling capabilities include energy-efficient heat-transfer, separation, and cooling solutions for high-tech facilities and semiconductor manufacturing, with operations described across more than 100 countries. The clean-air offering includes high-efficiency filters and air-quality systems for fabs, pharmaceutical production, life sciences, and advanced manufacturing. The pavilion also includes certified modular sealing solutions using patented Multidiameter™ technology, with cable and pipe sealing systems described as protecting semiconductor facilities from fire, water, dust, gas, vibration, and EMI. Advanced-process capabilities include X-ray sources described as the world's brightest and most stable, with applications in advanced manufacturing, material science, and medical imaging. Advanced-process capabilities also include APS™ atomic layer etch technology for scalable and cost-efficient sub-5nm logic and memory manufacturing. The semiconductor technology range further includes III-V vertical nanowire transistors on silicon for ultra-low-noise, high-linearity GHz applications. Additional Nordic technology themes include high-tech facility management, advanced equipment, photonics, and MicroLED applications. Beyond the pavilion companies, Business Sweden's market-expansion offering can support participating Swedish companies with Strategic Advisory, practical business support, trade facilitation, Business to Government engagement, and Geopolitical Advisory as they pursue international opportunities. Its export-support tools address customs, rules of origin, free trade agreements, delivery terms, and international payments, providing practical trade-regulation support alongside business development and market-entry work. For companies that need a local operating setup after market entry, Business Support Services can manage company establishment, workspace, local staffing, accounting, HR, payroll, and compliance in more than 30 major global markets. The establishment process can cover legal-entity advice, incorporation documentation, registration with local authorities, and local bank-account opening, while recruitment and employment services can support candidate selection and local employment before a company has its own legal establishment. Co-working, virtual-office, finance, controlling, tax-filing, audit-support, payroll, and HR-administration services provide an operational layer that can accompany market expansion after initial business-development and B2B activity.

Capabilities and products

• strategic and practical support for international market expansion
• practical export and trade-regulation advice and training
• new-market entry support for start-ups and SMEs
• local company establishment management
• legal-entity advice and incorporation-document preparation
• local-authority registration and local bank-account opening
• overseas talent recruitment services
• local employment before establishing your own legal entity
• overseas HR, payroll, social-insurance, and tax support
• preparation of local payslips for employees in Europe
• flexible co-working workspace
• virtual-office setup
• day-to-day accounting, payments, invoicing, and monthly reporting
• local tax filing and audit support
• Swedish national pavilion hosting
• B2B networking event organization
• Business to Government engagement services
• geopolitical advisory

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