Tag: Nordisk
The demand for weight loss drugs overwhelms important health and production players
Novo Nordisk cannot keep upWegovy manufacturer Novo Nordisk is also feeling the pressure and announces that it cannot meet the demand for Wegovy. Novo Nordisk’s results for the first quarter, published today, showed that earnings had skyrocketed to DKK 19.8 billion – a growth of 39 percent compared to the same period last year. The […]
Market movers: Danish companies soar past global giants
Solid start to 2023In recent months, Novo Nordisk has been buoyed by the formidable sales of its new weight loss drug, Wegovy. And the company’s diabetes products have also brought about a significant amount of change this year. The first quarter of the year has only just passed, but the company has already increased expectations […]
Health insurance company concerned by stampede for Novo Nordisk’s new weight loss medicine
Sygeforsikringen Danmark is reconsidering its position on reimbursement to customers who take a prescription for the Novo Nordisk drug Wegovy, an expensive weight loss drug that was launched at the end of last year. In January alone, 16,593 people in Denmark received a prescription for Wegovy – and a great many Sygeforsikringen Danmark customers were […]
Novo Nordisk will lower its insulin prices in the US
Pressure from PrezNovo Nordisk said it would cut the price of its insulin products by up to 75 percent – products to be included in the price cut include Levemir, Novolin, NovoLog. The issue of pharmaceutical companies overcharging for their products reached the halls of the White House, where President Biden called on pharmaceutical companies […]
Novo Nordisk’s use of monkeys in tests has skyrocketed
No other optionNovo Nordisk is aware of the problem, but claims it has no other options because its animal testing, including on monkeys, is crucial to production. The company said it places great emphasis on using as few animals for research as possible. “We cannot avoid using animals for experiments. We also cannot avoid using […]
Huge dividend for Ørsted and Novo Nordisk’s shareholders
The shareholders in Ørsted and Novo Nordisk have much to be happy about today, as both companies have decided to issue large dividends following the declaration of record profits. While Ørsted will split DKK 5.7 billion, Novo will distribute DKK 14.8 billion – not bad for shareholders who split DKK 7.5 billion in August last […]
Novo Nordisk will help finance abortion trips for American employees
Novo Nordisk will expand financial support to employees in the US after the implementation of strict abortion laws, reports Politiken. After the US Supreme Court overthrew Roe vs Wade on June 24, it is now illegal in many states in the United States to have an abortion. Because of the extreme mental and physical effects […]
Antiryska sanktioner fungerar inte Kroatiens president
EU-medborgare i stället för Moskva känner smärtan, beklagar Zoran Milanovic Den ryska rubeln blir starkare samtidigt som EU-medborgare måste klara av högre priser på grund av sanktioner som helt enkelt inte fungerar, klagade Kroatiens president Zoran Milanovic på tisdagen. Han kallade EU:s förklaring till det partiella olje- och gasembargot “förolämpande” och sa att Zagreb hade […]
VMA i Uppsala kommun •
– Vi utnyttjar varandras styrkor och fördelar och kompletterar varandra fullt ut och dessutom genomför en operativ planering och då blir det effekten att vi blir starkare tillsammans, säger försvarsminister Peter Hultqvist (S). De nordiska försvarsministrarna träffas i veckan och då kommer frågan upp om hur ett svenskt och finländskt Nato-medlemskap skulle kunna påverka samarbetet. […]
Nordic by nature – Scandinavia knows how the outdoors works
As fascinating as the Scandinavian nature is, so diverse is the Northern European outdoor scene. Over 70 outdoor brands from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden are united under the Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG) umbrella. At OutDoor by ISPO from June 12 to 14 in Munich, you can discover many Scandinavian brands as exhibitors, when […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine causes shares to plummet in Denmark
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in shares falling all over the world. At opening time this Thursday, the Danish C25 index of the country’s leading shares had fallen by around 4.79 percent. An hour later, it had returned by 2.8 percentage points, then still a decrease of 2 percent compared to yesterday. The index […]
What is a CFD?
CFD stands for contracts for difference and is a financial derivative. CFD trading is an alternative to stock trading, but is actually traded in the same way as a stock. A CFD is derived from an underlying asset, such as a stock or an index, or products such as copper, property or land. By signing […]
400 liters of acid run out into the basement of a pharmaceutical company
On Monday morning, there was a “major spill” of nitric acid at the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk in Hillerød. On Monday morning, the clean-up work is completed, and roadblocks and roads outside the building have been removed. This is stated by Frederiksborg Fire and Emergency Management and the North Zealand Police. No persons were injured […]
Acid emissions at pharmaceutical companies block roads in Hillerød
There has been a “major spill” of nitric acid at the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk in Hillerød. The discharge is only inside the building at Brennum Park and there is no danger to persons in the area. The North Zealand Police wrote on Twitter on Monday morning. No persons were injured in the spill. Police […]
Nordisk Film hails plans to publish comedy about Danish archery to no avail in Norway
They say that life imitates art, but you will not believe it when you see the poster for Thomas Daneskov’s new film, ‘Wild Men’, in which Rasmus Bjerg plays the lead role. Yes, it is an archer in what appears to be a supermarket, and today plans to release the film in Denmark next month […]
Premiere postponed: Danish film reminiscent of attacks in Norway
Following an attack in Norway, Nordisk Film is postponing the premiere of the film “Vildmænd”, which takes place in Norway, and where actor Rasmus Bjerg appears with a bow and arrow.
Accused homicide boss refuses to use police database for book
In the Copenhagen City Court on Thursday, however, the prosecutor in the case, Jette Malberg, referred to an explanation that Møller should have given to the police prosecution authority. To it he had explained that in connection with a case referred to as “Øbromanden”, he had used the case system to make a fact check. […]
A career in the spirit of sustainability
Sustainability and responsible business today are no longer just a trend or a wave in motion. It is a condition cast in cement that a leader must relate to, she said last year in an interview with the online media lederstof.dk. Lise Kingo left Novo Nordisk in connection with a management reshuffle in 2014 – […]
The film producer denies that it is behind the artificially high film rating on the Danish cinema site
Do you ever get the impression when you look at the Danish media’s reviews of home-produced films that there is any fishing? Somehow they always end up getting 5/6, often while foreign films with universal recognition, like ‘Promising Young Woman’ recently, only get 4/6 without a single hint as to why they lost two stars. […]
The Danish Medicines Agency is hiring a new director from Aarhus University
Lars Bo Nielsen has been hired as the new director of the Danish Medicines Agency. This is stated by the Ministry of Health in a press release. Since 9 March, the Danish Medicines Agency has been looking for a new director after Thomas Senderovitz chose to change to a job at Novo Nordisk. The choice […]
A businessman in fighting storm
Several times it has had consequences for Plummer, who turns 60 on Sunday 25 April. Kenneth Plummer laid the seeds for a working life as a leader in his youth. He is a graduate of the Copenhagen Business School, today Copenhagen Business School, and the talent was great. This led him to top positions at, […]
The head of the Danish Medicines Agency is in good recovery after fainting
During a press conference on vaccines last week, Tanja Erichsen, who is head of unit at the Danish Medicines Agency, fainted. She is feeling much better now, she says on Twitter. – Thank you all very much for your care and greetings – it’s whimsical. It was a hard blow my head had to accept, […]
Dansk Reklame Film reported fraud – even going to court
– It sends the completely wrong signal, says the company’s chairman of the board, Erik Kongsvik-Ibsen. – We have done everything in our power to clean up. We have paid the customers what they are entitled to and have reported it to the police. The case would never have come up if we had not […]
The government is discussing vaccine production with the Novo Nordisk Foundation
The Novo Nordisk Foundation is the country’s largest business fund and has a fortune of more than DKK 400 billion. The foundation has previously rejected that it will make sense with state vaccine production in Denmark, but now opens up that it can be done in collaboration with the private business community. – We can […]
Report: Danish life sciences among the world’s leaders in innovation
Novo players required In Denmark, the ten largest patent applicants (see list below) make up almost 50 percent of all patent applications within life science. Novozymes and Novo Nordisk account for 25 percent of all Danish life science patent applications. “For continued support for Danish innovation, it is important that companies have solid and predictable […]
FACTS: Here are the nominees for this year’s Robert Awards
* “An ordinary family”. * “Riders of Justice”. * “Shorta”. * “Our Man in America”. Male Leading of the Year: * Jacob Hauberg Lohmann (“Shorta”). * Mads Mikkelsen (“Druk”). * Mads Mikkelsen (“Riders of Justice”). * Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (“An ordinary family”). * Nikolaj Lie Kaas (“Riders of Justice”). Female Leading Role of the Year: […]
Jes Dorph finished as TV2 host after infringement cases
Jes Dorph-Petersen has finished hosting TV2 after an investigation into sexism and abusive behavior on the TV station. He writes this in a post on his Facebook profile. – I have been declared unwanted as host of TV2’s channels on the basis of two episodes in 2001 and 2003. That is 20 and 18 years […]
Novo Nordisk is convicted of violating a competitor
The two companies are direct competitors in the diabetes treatment market. But in 2019, Novo Nordisk issued a press release comparing Novo Nordisk’s drug Tresiba with Sanofi’s Toujeo, which was misleading, the court states. The judges emphasize that Novo Nordisk also crossed the line in 2017 by issuing an illegal press release, and that Sanofi […]
Rita star wins big award for exceptional performance
At the award ceremony Isbjørnen, which the Nordic Film Foundation is behind, she received the honorary award on Thursday afternoon, which is a tribute to one of Denmark’s most beloved actors. And the fact that it is an honorary award named after the Olsen Banden icon means something special to the 46-year-old actress. – When […]
Employees in Denmark’s largest companies that make significant political donations to American election candidates
Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have benefited from generous donations from those who are at the top of Denmark’s largest companies. The companies are excluded from making donations in the American election, but such rules do not apply to the individual employees – a rule that some at Novo Nordisk, Lundbeck and Ørsted have […]
After Jensen’s exit: Several refuse to run for office
Minister for Children and Education Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil will not comment on whether she is interested in running. – It is a process that runs internally in the Social Democrats, she says. At the same time, Christine Antorini, director of Life at Novo Nordisk and former Minister for Children and Education, denies to Ritzau that she […]
