Onwards and upwards in more ways than one

Swets’ Global Headquarters, along with our regional Netherlands office, have moved location. Our new address is Delaertweg 9B in Leiden, The Netherlands. A university city since 1575 and twinned with Oxford, UK, Leiden is regarded as one of the premier seats of knowledge in Europe, if not the world and so makes a logical home base for the world’s leading provider of professional information.

“Our new headquarters are dramatically different from anything we, or our customers, have been used to,” said David Main,  Swets CEO. “The move represents a definite forward step for our company and the building itself reflects our bold ambitions for the future. Our new home makes a dramatic introduction, with groundbreaking architecture and state-of-the-art facilities. It places us in the heart of Leiden, a true center of knowledge, and will help us secure a more adaptable, flexible and truly innovative future for Swets.

Our new offices are housed within the Achmea building, a modern, striking and bold addition to the Leiden skyline. Opened in 2011 and designed by architect Fons Verheijen from VVKH Architecten, the building takes inspiration from the Dutch art movement of the early twentieth century, ‘De Stijl’ (Dutch for "The Style", also known as neoplasticism). The movement, whose most famous proponent was Piet Mondrian, was founded in Leiden in 1917 and sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order. Advocating pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour; De Stijl artists simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white.  Verheijen has embraced their manifesto, crafting a building of elegant form and eye-catching colour.

Full contact information for Swets headquarters can be found here.