Question:
How many pigs does Danish Crown slaughter?
Answer:
In 2008/09 Danish Crown slaughtered approx. 16.1 million pigs and sows in Denmark. In addition, the subsidiaries in the UK, Sweden and Poland handle approx. 2.7 million pig slaughterings.
Question:
How many cattle does Danish Crown slaughter?
Answer:
In 2008/09 Danish Crown slaughtered approx. 0.5 m cattle –
269,000 in Denmark. This corresponds to about 57% of all cattle slaughterings in Denmark.
Question:
How much does Danish Crown export?
Answer:
Danish Crown exports most of its production and is the world’s largest meat exporter.
Exports total DKK 22.6 billion a year.
This corresponds to 3.9% of Danish goods exports and 39% of all Danish agricultural exports.
Question:
How large a share of your products is exported?
Answer:
We sell 90% as exports and 10% to Danish customers. Some of our Danish customers process the meat before exporting it, so in reality the share of exports is higher.
Question:
How many countries does Danish Crown export to?
The Danish Crown group exports to more than 130 countries worldwide.
Answer:
In 2006, Danish Crown’s Pork Division had exports to 68 countries.
Question:
Which is your largest market?
Answer:
Japan is the largest single market for pork in terms of revenue, followed closely by the UK, while Germany is the largest market in terms of volume.
For the group as a whole, the UK is the largest single market, not least thanks to the subsidiary Tulip Ltd. (UK) which is domiciled and has extensive production and sales activities in the UK.
Question:
How much revenue does Danish Crown generate?
Answer:
In the last financial year, the Danish Crown group posted revenue of approx. DKK 47 billion.
Question:
Do you only have departments in Denmark?
Answer:
No, we have departments throughout most of the world. Altogether, the group has almost 100 production and sales departments outside Denmark.
Question:
When did Danish Crown start?
Answer:
Danish Crown is the result of a number of mergers of slaughtering businesses over many years. There is therefore no straightforward answer to the question of who started Danish Crown and when.
The first Danish cooperative slaughterhouse was set up in Horsens in 1887. This slaughterhouse is now part of Danish Crown.
During the next 40-50 years, a large number of cooperative pig slaughterhouses were established in Denmark.
In 1960 the cooperative slaughterhouses started to merge so as to stand stronger within, for example, sales, marketing and product development.
1998 saw the merger of Danish Crown and Vestjyske Slagterier.
The most recent merger was between Danish Crown and Steff-Houlberg, and a large number of the original cooperative pig slaughterhouses are now part of Danish Crown.
did you know?
… that following an initiative by Danish Crown and some of Denmark’s leading gourmet chefs, the fund to promote Danish gastronomy is becoming ever more successful. The goal of the fund is to support promising cooks with regard to courses and student placements in Denmark and abroad.
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