Danish Crown
| Danish Crown | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1998 |
| Seat |
Randers , Denmark
|
| management | Jais Valeur (CEO) |
| Number of employees | approx. 26,500 |
| sales | 62.02 billion DKK (2017) |
| Branch | food industry |
| Website | www.danishcrown.com |
Danish Crown is a global group of companies in the meat processing food industry with its headquarters in Randers, Denmark .
history
The Danish Crown Group traces its origins back to the first Danish pig slaughtering cooperative founded in 1887 by 500 farmers in the Horsens region. Another milestone in the company's history was the merger of cooperative slaughterhouses to form Sydøstjyske Andelsslagterier in 1970, which merged with Tulip in 1986. Since the merger of Tulip with Wenbo and Østjyske Andelsslagterier in 1990, the company has been called Danish Crown. This was followed by the takeover of all the larger slaughterhouses in Denmark. In 2010 the approximately 9,000 members of the cooperative decided to change the legal form. The owner of the now operating joint-stock company is Leverandørselskabet AmbA , which represents the interests of the cooperative members, and has a legal form similar to that of a German GmbH . The joint-stock company is structured into two business areas, pork and beef , which are subordinate to the head office, which is divided into several administrative departments.
In 2014, Danish Crown took over all shares in Sokolow, the largest meat processor in Poland, which it had previously controlled through a 50/50 joint venture with HKScan. On February 24, 2015, Tican and Danish Crown announced that they would merge Denmark's largest slaughterhouses with 2,200 and 26,000 employees respectively . However, the Danish competition authority prohibited the merger.
In 2017 the German beef slaughterhouse Teterower Fleisch (110,000 beef slaughtering per year, 20% of which from organic farms; annual turnover of 150 million euros, half of which was achieved through export). Since then, it has been operated organisationally together with a beef slaughterhouse in Husum, northern Germany, which is already owned by Danish Crown ( Schlachtzentrum Nordfriesland GmbH , 90,000 slaughterings / year).
Market position
According to its own information, the Danish Crown Group is today (as of 2013) the largest pig slaughterer in Europe and the second largest in the world, Europe's largest meat processor and the largest beef slaughterer in Denmark, as well as one of the three largest meat exporters in the world and the world's largest pork exporter.
Key figures
The annual turnover of the group is around 7.6 billion euros, it employs around 23,500 people, of which the parent company alone 10,500. Every year, 21.8 million pigs are processed (6.3 million of them in the UK, Poland and Sweden) and 600,000 cattle (half of them in Denmark).
The parent company has 15 slaughterhouses and meat cutting plants for pigs and 7 for cattle, 2 packaging plants for the retail sector and 2 distribution and fresh meat centers.
Holdings
The main subsidiaries of the group are (the amount of participation in brackets):
- Tulip Food Company (100%): manufactures a wide range of meat products, including a. Köttbullar , sausages, canned meat, ready meals, also supplies snack bars, company and school canteens; 50% sales in Northern Europe; 9 factories, including 5 in Denmark, 3 in Germany, 1 in Sweden; Sales 670 million euros; 1,700 employees
- ESS-FOOD (100%): worldwide sales company; Turnover 0.5 billion euros
- Tulip Ltd. (100%): Slaughter, processing and manufacture of special meat products for the UK market; 19 factories, 7,000 employees, sales 1.43 billion euros
- Plumrose USA (100%): Products for the American market, sales of 360 million euros, 1,400 employees
- Dat-Schaub (100%): represents sausage casings forth
- Scan-Hide (75.6%): processes hides (over 1 million per year)
- Sokołów (100%): largest slaughterhouse and processing company in Poland, 50% stake until 2014 through a joint venture with the Finnish company HKScan ; 7 factories, 660 million euros turnover, 6,200 employees
- KLS UGGLARPS (100%): Sweden's second largest slaughterhouse (pork, beef, sheep / lamb), turnover 280 million euros
- D&S Fleisch (takeover in 2010)
- WestCrown GmbH, Dissen (sow cutting, 50/50 joint venture with Westfleisch , from 2016)
The British subsidiary Tulip Limited was sold to the US Pilgrim’s group, a subsidiary of the Brazilian JBS group, in 2019 .
Web links
- Danish Crown Official International Website
- Official German website of Danish Crown Germany
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jonas Lund & Nicolaj Vorre: Danish Crown og Tican går sammen i kæmpe fusion , February 24, 2015, on borsen.dk.
- ↑ https://www.agrarheute.com/tier/rind/schlachthof-uebernahme-danish-crown-fuenftgroesster-rinderschlachter-530587
- ^ International Food Company
- ↑ Key figures
- ↑ https://www.agrarheute.com/management/agribusiness/danish-crown-stoesst-tulip-grossringen-ab-557519