Tag: Danfoss
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Business Round-Up: Inflation continues to fall … slowly
Inflation in Denmark continues to fall…albeit slowly. In October it reached 10.1 percent – the highest rate in 40 years – but it began to fall in November and again in December. According to Statistics Denmark, it fell from 8.9 to 8.7 percent in the last month of the year – still far higher than…
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Business Round-Up: Inflation continues to fall … slowly
Inflation in Denmark continues to fall…albeit slowly. In October it reached 10.1 percent – the highest rate in 40 years – but it began to fall in November and again in December. According to Statistics Denmark, it fell from 8.9 to 8.7 percent in the last month of the year – still far higher than…
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Business Round-Up: Lego comes back on top as the most valuable brand
With 38.7 billion kroner, Lego is now the most valuable Danish brand, according to Brand Finance. Up 13 percent from 2022, the iconic toy company has surpassed the shipping company Maersk, which is currently valued at DKK 31.1 billion. The 10 most valuable Danish brands in 2022 Each year, Brand Finance puts 5,000 of the…
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Business Round-Up: Chairman of the Consumer Council concerned about loan sharks on Facebook
Anja Philip, chair of the Consumer Council Think’s Consumer Council, wants more measures to prevent consumers from falling victim to loan sharks operating on Facebook. The legislation introduced in 2020 has ensured that loans can only be offered with a maximum annual interest rate of 35 percent, which causes about half of all quick loan…
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Business Round-Up: Record year for Danish industrial production
After a small dip in 2020, Danish industrial production rose to DKK 925 billion in 2021 – an increase of DKK 78 billion. Revenue rose across all industry groups, with machinery, food and beverages and tobacco leading the way. Together, they accounted for 41.6 percent of total revenue and 37.2 percent of industrial employment. The…
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Large Danish companies quickly cancel their Christmas lunch parties
On the four Christmas days, my new boss gave me: four reasons to quit, three intoxicated photocopies, two MDMA pigeons and one dose of hepatitis C. Yes, the Christmas lunch season is upon us, but it’s also a siege of corona cases. Most of them are children who do not feel bad, but they infect…
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FACTS: These 145 sites must be examined for toxic substance
Danish Regions has decided to investigate 145 sites for the dangerous substance PFOS. Here is an overview of the places to be examined: The region of northern Jutland: Brønderslev, Civil Defense training site. Frederikshavn, Technical School (EUC Nord). Frederikshavn, Specialarbejderskolen. Ålbæk, Hvims Fire School. Hjørring, the Civil Defense’s fire drill area and former workshop. Hjørring,…
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FACTS: These sites should be examined for toxic substance
Danish Regions has decided to investigate 145 sites for the dangerous substance PFOS. Here is an overview of the places to be examined: The region of northern Jutland: Brønderslev, Civil Defense training site. Frederikshavn, Technical School (EUC Nord). Frederikshavn, Specialarbejderskolen. Ålbæk, Hvims Fire School. Hjørring, the Civil Defense’s fire drill area and former workshop. Hjørring,…
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: How the EU moved the goalposts for the Irish
The Celtic Tiger economy sizzled with enough ultraviolet rays to tan a nation of reluctant pale-skinned crackers. It vibrated, trembled and trembled like a gilded Harcourt Street hooker dildo. Then ‘bankers, fat cats and politicians’ combined it faster than a rock than one could say: “Subprime evaporation of liquidity”. Back in the ‘Yellow Brick Road’…
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Deciphering ‘unconventional’ Denmark’s unconventional relationship to feminism
Denmark serves as a role model for the rest of the world with its social democratic welfare, narrow gender pay, generous parental leave and remarkable female representation in the government and the political sphere. It even has a feminist political party! The country has made great strides in terms of women’s rights since 1915 –…
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The government rejects pure friend service in infrastructure plan
Part of the government’s new infrastructure plan is a preliminary study of a fixed link between Als and Fyn. A connection that Danfoss wants and as former chief of staff for the Social Democrats Martin Rossen works for in his role as director of Public Affairs for the company. It has previously been speculated whether…
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The government will convince the EU of greener energy targets
It writes Berlingske. Denmark will try to gather a majority for a goal that renewable energy should account for 45 percent of the EU’s energy consumption by 2030. At the same time, the government believes that energy efficiency should be increased to 40 percent. This is measured by how good the EU countries are at…
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FACTS: Ten major pollutants in Denmark are waiting to be cleaned up
The current ten generation pollutants are: * Grindsted Power Station, Grindsted: Pollution with toxic wastewater. * Kærgård Klitplantage north of Esbjerg: Pollution with toxic wastewater from, among others, Grindstedværket. * Himmark Strand on Als: Disposal of chemicals from Danfoss. * Old factory site at Cheminova, Harboøre Tange: Pollution from the production of pesticides. * Cheminova’s…