Danish Crown wants to take more abattoirs

Danes expanding

The leading Danish pig and cattle slaughterhouse Danish Crown wants to take several slaughterhouses in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom in the future. In order for the Cooperative Group intends to respond to the desire "large international supermarket chains" who want reportedly refer Danish Crown meat from producers in their respective home countries. of this announcement in September relative surprisingly, the deputy CEO of Danish Crown.

Even in mid-August, Danish Crown had announced a new strategic plan for the three-year period 2003 / 04 to 2005 / 06, which provided only the acquisition of several meat product establishments in the three neighboring countries mentioned and in the Central and Eastern European candidate countries. According to the latest statements of thousands of foreign pig producers should provide their animals to new slaughterhouses Danish Crown in the future.

The foreign slaughterhouses are expected to be organized in separate joint stock companies. This is to prevent the foreign pig producers concerned from becoming members of the Danish Crown cooperative.

Danish Crown is already the leading slaughterhouse and meat products group in Europe, with consolidated sales of the equivalent of EUR 5,8 billion in the 2001/02 financial year. In addition, the cooperative giant has long been the world's largest exporter of pork. Danish Crown can rely on around 100 of its own sales and production companies in around 20 countries.

Source: Bonn [ZmP]