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15.01.09

A new dawn

The world’s most modern slaughterhouse early one morning in January 2009. Just before daybreak. Just before the first pigs arrive to be slaughtered.

The supply of pigs is the foundation for Danish Crown’s activities, and therefore competitive prices for the company’s owners are absolutely essential.

Have you thought about visiting Denmark’’s Most Beautiful Pigsty at this year’’s Skanderborg Festival?
05.05.09

DC - Also in future

It has been a long dark winter’s night in the history of Danish pig production, but at the end of the financial year the beginning of a new dawn can be discerned on the horizon. The ambitious strategy we presented and which in the spring became ...

17.10.08

DC Future

The high Danish cost level poses a massive challenge for an international export-based company in Denmark. In 2009, this has resulted in the ambitious plan, DC Future.

17.10.08

Is the financial crisis hitting Danish Crown?

While the financial crisis is ravaging global stock markets and leaving its mark on household finances, many members are asking whether the financial crisis is hitting Danish Crown.

17.02.09

Capacity cuts in Danish Crown

This morning, Danish Crown’s Pork Producer Committee has announced that some of the Group’s Danish activities will be closed. The announcement involves the slaughterhouse in Holstebro and the cutting facility in Rødding.

10.03.09

No pay increases at head office

In March 2009, the employees at the Danish Crown head office in Randers were informed of the initial steps set out in DC Future, which include a pay freeze for all employees who normally negotiate their pay every year.

27.03.09

Danish Crown gearing up for the future

Through a number of measures, Danish Crown has today taken the next step towards ensuring that the Group will remain a competitive business in future. More than 50 administrative jobs will be cut in both the Pork Division and ...

17.11.08

Danish Crown cutting costs

High meat production costs are forcing Danish Crown to shift the deboning of foreends in Skærbæk primarily to other Danish Crown facilities in Germany.

10.03.09

Nothing is sacred

Over the past few weeks, Danish Crown has been reviewing the entire group structure to identify measures for ensuring the future competitiveness of the company.

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We have a joint task and a shared responsi- bility

-Kjeld Johannesen | CEO

We have a joint task and a shared responsibility. And we can only see the task through if we believe in it. Reducing Danish Crown’s payroll costs by 20 per cent per kilogramme represents a huge challenge. But we have come a quarter of the way, and I feel confident we can achieve our goal with the rest. You have to think what the alternative is.

05.05.09

DC Future: An overall plan

Massive savings, structural changes and a new settlement concept are the cornerstones of a new proposal from Danish Crown which, over the next six to 18 months, will ensure the Group’s competitiveness and supplies of ...

04.05.09

Stable interim results

With revenue of DKK 22.7 billion and a net profit of DKK 450 million, the Danish Crown Group is posting interim results which match expectations. - All in all, we have realised interim results which exceed the outlook for the first six months. However, we are acutely aware of the need for further marked improvements to our ...

18.08.09

Tulip in Sdr. Borup to close

At an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Directors today, Tulip Food Company has decided to close Tulip’s factory in Sdr. Borup near Randers at the end of December.

08.09.09

Board of Directors and Board of Repre- sentatives showing the way

At the meeting of the Board of Representatives in Vejle, it was decided to reduce the remuneration paid to both the Board ...

29.09.09

Board of directors approves budget

At its annual budget meeting, Danish Crown’s Board of Directors approves – and acknowledges – the budget for the coming year.

08.09.09

DC Future on target

Danish Crown is on target after the first quarter since the launch of DC Future. This was explained by the company management at a meeting of the Board of Representatives today.

SUMMER 2009

Danish Crown - An attractive playmate

A company’s reputation is decisive for its impact – both politically, in the press and in the cold counter.

In just four years, Danish Crown has developed into a company with which other enterprises want to do business.

23.04.09

Reliable communacation from Danish Crown

Danish Crown still enjoys a strong position in the annual image surveys conducted by the trade magazine Levnedsmiddelbladet among companies in the Danish food sector. In the image survey, Levnedsmiddelbladet takes the pulse of the companies’ efforts in a number of areas, and there is progress for Danish Crown in several categories. For example, in ‘most reliable communication’, DC moves from fifth place up to second place.

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30.09.09

PR Barometer

The financial publication Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin has just published this year’s PR Barometer, in which Danish Crown’s Communication Department was ranked second. The survey involves Danish companies being scrutinised by 233 journalists. They were asked to assess the companies according to 24 parameters on a scale from one to ten. Danish Crown’s Communication Department scored 7.8 – surpassed only by Novozymes with a ...

Processing strategy paying off

Danish Crown’s value chain stretches all the way from field to fridge. Literally. From the grain growing in the Danish fields and being harvested to feed the pigs – to the liver pâté being served at the lunch table. In recent years, Danish Crown has developed from primarily being a slaughterhouse business selling sides of pigs to processing companies to performing much of the processing itself in various subsidiaries. And this is the right strategy.

27.03.09

CEO on prime-time TV

On the weekend of 21-22 February, Danish Crown’s CEO, Kjeld Johannesen, visited the television programme TV2 News to be interviewed for the programme’s financial section. The reason for the interview was the announcement by Danish Crown that the company would be closing three of its departments.

10.03.09

Danish Crown listens to its employees

Over the next year or so Danish Crown has to cut costs and improve earnings by as much as DKK 1.6 billion. According to DC Future, just over one third of the cuts must be in the form of pay cuts.

27.03.09

Blans throws down the gauntlet

At the end of March, Danish Crown’s slaughterhouse in Blans was up to 50,000 pigs a week. Today, full capacity at the plant is 56,000 pigs a week. - We have a state-of-the-art slaughterhouse where we can continually adjust capacity.

27.03.09

Morten Petersen returns to Dansk Supermarked

After almost a year as Managing Director of the Pork Division, Morten Petersen decided to accept the job as Director of Groceries Purchasing in Dansk Supermarked, where he was employed until almost two years ago.

10.03.09

Politicians flocking to the slaughterhouses

Recently there has been an overwhelming level of political interest in the Danish Crown companies. In week 34 at the end of August various departments were visited by the Danish Minister for Economic and Business Affairs, Lene Espersen, the chairman of the Danish Socialist People’s Party (SF), Villy Søvndal, and the Danish prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. - The political attention is crucial at the moment because it is very important that people, especially members of the Danish parliament, understand what is required to preserve Danish workplaces, says Danish Crown’s CEO Kjeld Johannesen.