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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
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.
Danish Crown offers free industrial operator training to employees
For the first time ever, Danish Crown ensures that employees can be trained as industrial operators with pay during the course, just as the participants are guaranteed an industrial operator job afterwards. The Food Federation NNF estimates that only more people with this expertise will be needed in the future.
Signe will use DM in Skills as the ultimate challenge
For the media graphic trainee, Signe Flensted Kallmayer, Danish Crown is a workplace with the opportunity to test her skills at all kinds of design tasks. So, when participating in DM in Skills 2023, she will use the competition as s playing field to showcase what she can do.
Kanpithak looks forward to showing off the butcher trade at DM in Skills
Kanpithak Pimkoksung is one of the five butcher apprentices from Danish Crown who will participate at the DM in Skills 2023 in Denmark. For him, the best thing about the butcher trade is learning a complicated craft that you can constantly get sharper at, and that there is a fantastic community at an abattoir.
Employees receive free Danish and dyslexia lessons during working hours at Danish Crown
Danish Crown offers employees throughout Denmark Danish or dyslexia lessons during working hours with pay to improve their writing and reading skills. Just under 130 employees have already gone through the classes with great success, and the next classes starts in January 2023.
Production in Germany is being reorganised
Declining numbers of slaughtered animals and decreasing consumption of pork in Germany are now causing Danish Crown to adjust its approach to the German market with the clear aim of improving earnings. Therefore, a deboning facility is scheduled for closure, so that all slaughtering and deboning are joined at the group's German abattoir.
New technology with enormous potential
Danish agriculture works purposefully to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. That is why Danish Crown is now embarking on large-scale testing of a technology where methane gas from slurry tanks is collected and burned off. A method that can potentially reduce the climate footprint of one kilo pork by 10 to 20 per cent.
Camilla Sylvest new vice chair of Danish Crown A/S
Camilla Sylvest, Executive Vice President at Novo Nordisk, has been elected as the new vice chair of the Danish Crown A/S board. She takes over the post from Mads Nipper, who resigned from the board at the end of the financial year.
Danish Crown donates food that makes a difference
Food is for many a natural meeting place at Christmas, but not everyone has the resources to let the meal be centre. That's why we donate meals and food to charitable causes every year - and this year is no exception.