AAA rating - what does it mean?

Dun & Bradstreet is a world leader in providing business insight information, and has the world’s largest database of its kind with information on over 83 million companies. D&B continuously ranks companies’ solvency in consideration of their activities.

Triple A is the highest credit rating. Companies awarded with Triple-A have an excellent capacity to meet their payment liabilities. Even through global economic crises, like the one we all encountered during 2008/2009.

To receive an AAA rating, a company must be well established (usually older than 10 years) and have excellent key figures (significantly better than the industry average). In general, there must not be any record of defaulted payments for the company itself, or for key people in the company.

The usefulness of this kind of ranking can be expressed this way:

A company that lives beyond its means and is not profitable is not trustworthy to deal with—especially not in a long-term partnership, since payment problems will eventually arise.

Profitability and good solvency are important to many of our partners. For our:

• customers, that we can live up to quality requirements and expectations
• suppliers, that we can live up to our commitments
• employees, so they can have a secure workplace
• society, we meet the requirements of national and local governments.

We at Hammar are proud to have received the AAA rating for more than 13 years, of which eight years consecutively. It shows that we meet the requirements and expectations our partners have every right to demand from us.