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Danish Crown aims to strengthen profitability with comprehensive organisational adjustment
Fewer slaughter pigs and excessive costs are pressuring the competitiveness of Denmark's largest meat company. Danish Crown is planning to make around 500 salaried positions redundant as part of efforts to restore the financial health of the company.
International Food Industry Profile is New External Board Member at Danish Crown
Anders Aakaer Jensen appointed as new Group CFO at Danish Crown
With senior roles at DOVISTA, Bang & Olufsen, and Grundfos, Danish Crown's new Group CFO, Anders Aakaer Jensen, brings extensive and diverse experience from some of the biggest companies in Denmark.
Niels Duedahl becomes new Group CEO of Danish Crown
The board of Danish Crown has appointed Niels Duedahl as the new Group CEO. With top positions in companies such as Norlys, LEGO, and TDC, he is an experienced leader in Danish business who will be tasked with guiding Danish Crown through a comprehensive transformation.
Danish Crown sells Stake in Agri-Norcold
Danish Crown and TA-Logistics A/S have sold Agri-Norcold, one of Denmark's largest operators in the field of freezing, frozen food handling and food storage. The buyer is Constellation Cold Logistics, one of Europe's leading companies in the industry.
Banebrydende burgerbøf testes på Smukfest
Danish Crown bruger Smukfest i Skanderborg til at teste en nyudviklet burgerbøf. Den indeholder 50 procent grøntsager og arbejdet med at ramme en smag, der skal få både forbrugerne og professionelle kokke til at vælge produktet, er et af Danish Crown Beefs hidtil største innovationsprojekter.
Jais Valeur to step down as Group CEO of Danish Crown
After almost nine years, Jais Valeur has decided to step down as Group CEO of Danish Crown. He has agreed with the Board of Directors that he will continue to head the company until a replacement has been found.
Improved operations in a challenging half-year
The course is right, and the strategy is working but increased interest rate costs and a challenging market for DAT-Schaub over-shadows the significant Danish Crown core business progress.
Camilla Harder Hartvig resigns from Danish Crown’s board of directors
After three years as a board member in Danish Crown A/S, Camilla Harder Hartvig has decided to step down to focus on other tasks and board positions. A successor has been appointed.
Danish Crown aims to improve efficiency of its production in Denmark and increase focus on value added processing
Danish Crown’s ambition is to be one of the most efficient abattoirs in Europe and to sell many more processed products to the European market. Consequently, it is proposed that the group’s abattoir in Ringsted be closed while at the same investing and creating new jobs in Horsens, Herning, Blans and Vejen.
Danish Crown responds affirmatively in the Danish Supreme Court case
Danish Crown is to have a new Group CFO
Danish Crown becomes co-owner of promising climate technology
To accelerate the rollout of the technology, Danish Crown has invested in the company AgroGas, which has developed a technology where methane gas from slurry tanks is burned off to reduce the climate footprint. A method that could potentially reduce CO2 emissions from a kilogram of pork by 10 to 20 percent.
A goodbye to black meat trays
Meat trays made of black PET are currently not detectable with the sorting technology used by Danish recyclers, a limitation that leads to trays being incinerated instead of being recycled. Danish Crown is actively addressing this challenge by changing the colour of millions of meat trays from black to the green Evolve by Faerch trays. In addition to enabling increased tray recycling, the new trays will be composed of at least 90 percent recycled plastic.
Danish Crown Announces Leadership Change in Group Communication and Public Affairs
Strong revenue growth amid challenging conditions
Danish Crown faced many different headwinds during the past year. Nevertheless, the Group managed to increase revenue by five per cent in the 2022/23 financial year and is now beginning to see the results of the efficiency enhancements and production capacity adjustments made.
Danish Crown Beef reporting surge in sales of branded products
Driven by 35 per cent growth in sales of its branded products, Danish Crown Beef lifted the average settlement price to cooperative owners in 2022/23.
Employees in Vejle donate tons of food to Ukraine
At the factory in Vejle, employees are donating to the Ukrainian people and forces. Employees can donate 6 kg of food for 25 kroner through bags called "lykke-poser". For every bag, the employees purchase, the factory also donates one. Now, all employees in Denmark can contribute through this concept.
Efficiency improvements of at least DKK 1.5bn to lift Danish Crown
Danish Crown’s cooperative owners have confirmed the delivery of around 11 million pigs over the next 12 months. That volume will provide the basis for sharpening our business and restoring our competitive strength.
Danish companies teaming up to provide climate-neutral transport between Denmark and the UK
Arla, Danish Crown, DFDS and DSV have teamed up in a new partnership to develop a climate-neutral transport corridor between Denmark and the UK. The ambition for the partnership is to transport Arla’s and Danish Crown’s products from farms in Denmark to consumers in the UK with zero impact on the environment.
Difficult market conditions as inflation hits the consumers
Danish Crown shows a 15% revenue improvement in its half-year report. Nevertheless, the production of pigs in Denmark has declined because of uncompetitive settlement prices in a European context for our owners’ supplies of slaughter animals.
New agreement on biogas to accelerate green transition
A new partnership between the biogas company Bigadan and Danish Crown offers a wide range of opportunities to make meat production more sustainable.
DAT-Schaub acquires two companies in Benelux
Danish Crown's subsidiary, DAT-Schaub, has since mid-April been majority shareholder in the Dutch company SELO Verpakking and SELO Belgium. The companies are among the market leaders in Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg within sales of artificial casings for sausage production.
Danish Crown presents necessary restructuring plan
A significant decrease in the number of pigs supplied for slaughter in Denmark is now forcing Danish Crown to implement a significant restructuring. Unfortunately, it means that 800 employees at the company’s abattoir in Sæby in northern Jutland now face losing their jobs, while 450 new employees will be needed at the group’s other abattoirs in Denmark.