Creditreform Italia was founded in 1984 and is part of the Creditreform Group. It is an ordinary member of Creditreform International and uses the Group's services and technology. The Creditreform Group is the world leader in Debt Collection and in 2013 handled 1,600,000 bad debts. The Creditreform Group is the European leader in the field of Business Information, and every year processes some 16,000,000 items of Business Information and 500,000 free updates. Creditreform was founded in Germany in 1879 and now has a turnover of some 543 million Euro, 200 business offices and 4,500 directly employed personnel, and is the absolute market leader in Europe. With a thoroughly embedded presence worldwide both with its own offices and through subsidiaries, partners and correspondents, it employs a workforce of some 10,000 to service some 170,000 customers. 1st Business Information Group in Europe 1st Debt Collection Group in the World 1st Direct Marketing with Solvency Index 1st VAT Refund thanks to Creditreform's local offices