Albania Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 1,259 Albania companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Albania company register data lives in QKB (Qendra Kombëtare e Biznesit, National Business Center), a free public search returning legal form, registration date, status, authorized capital, directors, and shareholders with exact ownership percentages. Law No. 112/2020 'On the Register of Beneficial Owners' took effect on 15 May 2025, opening UBO data to any internet user without registration, at a 25%-or-more ownership, voting-rights, or interest threshold. Every legal entity, branch, and representative office of a foreign company must file, with no entity-type exemption carved out. QKB verifies shareholder and UBO filings directly from the source registry, though coverage completeness is still building a year after launch, so a natural person absent from an Albanian entity's QKB record may still require corroboration through direct disclosure from the counterparty.
Albania beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in Albania
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Albania, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Albania
Albania’s central company register, QKB (Qendra Kombëtare e Biznesit / National Business Center), was established under Law No. 131/2015, merging the former National Registration Center and National Licensing Center into a single window that operates the Commercial Register, the Beneficial Owners Registry, and a register of permits and licenses, searchable at qkb.gov.al by NIPT (tax ID), company name, address, or shareholder name and integrated with the e-Albania government portal. QKB reports more than 2.5 million registered subjects, with new registrations up 7.5% in the first half of 2026.
Albania’s Beneficial Owners Registry, also administered by QKB under Law No. 112/2020, requires natural persons owning or controlling 25% or more of a company to be identified, with publicly disclosed fields limited to name, month and year of birth, nationality, country of residence, and ownership percentage, while exact date of birth, ID number, address and passport details remain restricted. Sources genuinely disagree on the registry’s current public-searchability: some describe beneficial-ownership data as accessible since May 15, 2025, while at least one 2026 assessment found it not yet exposed on QKB’s public NIPT search form — this is a live, unresolved discrepancy rather than settled fact, worth confirming directly at qkb.gov.al before relying on it.
Albania company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
2024 figures from INSTAT (Institute of Statistics of Albania), covering the Structural Business Survey population, which excludes financial, agricultural and fishing activities: of 119,870 enterprises, 93.8% were micro (1-9 employees), 5.0% small (10-49), 1.1% medium (50-249), and 0.1% large (250+). Source: INSTAT, Statistics on Small and Medium Size Enterprises 2024 (published March 13, 2026).
Foreign-controlled entities
Foreign-controlled and joint enterprises represented 2.9% of all registered legal units in Albania’s Business Register in 2024 (7,007 of 237,881), yet accounted for 18.8% of employment and 20.4% of turnover within INSTAT’s narrower Structural Business Survey population — a small number of large foreign-owned firms, concentrated in mining, energy, real estate and finance, generating a disproportionate share of economic activity. Albania’s total FDI stock reached €15.41 billion by the end of 2024, up from €13.26 billion in 2023, with the Netherlands and Switzerland the leading investor countries.
Who uses Albania ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Albania counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Filed accounts cover a limited share of the register in most jurisdictions, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many registered Albania businesses does Zavia track?
Zavia holds 1,259 company records for Albania, of which 1,258 (100%) are currently active on the register.
Can I look up the beneficial owner of a Albania company?
Albania company register data lives in QKB (Qendra Kombëtare e Biznesit, National Business Center), a free public search returning legal form, registration date, status, authorized capital, directors, and shareholders with exact ownership percentages. Law No. 112/2020 'On the Register of Beneficial Owners' took effect on 15 May 2025, opening UBO data to any internet user without registration, at a 25%-or-more ownership, voting-rights, or interest threshold. Every legal entity, branch, and representative office of a foreign company must file, with no entity-type exemption carved out. QKB verifies shareholder and UBO filings directly from the source registry, though coverage completeness is still building a year after launch, so a natural person absent from an Albanian entity's QKB record may still require corroboration through direct disclosure from the counterparty.
Is shareholder data available for Albania companies on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 0 shareholder records for Albania companies, with 1,294 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Who are the registered directors of Albania companies, and is that searchable?
Yes. Zavia holds 2 officer and director records for Albania companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
How does Albania publish company ownership records?
Share ownership in Albania is disclosed through the QKB trade register filing, filed under Law No. 9901 on Entrepreneurs and Commercial Companies.
Is there a bulk or API option for Albania company data?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Albania, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Does Zavia have a deeper guide on Albania company ownership?
Zavia's Albania beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.