Danisco

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• Tom Knutzen, CEO
• Jørgen Tandrup, Chairman of the Board

Danisco (of Danish Dansk Handels-og Industri - Compagni, "Danish Trade and Industry Company") is a Danish biotechnology company headquartered in Copenhagen. He is one of the largest manufacturers of food additives.

Corporate Structure

The group employs in the year 2010 nearly 7,000 employees in approximately 40 countries. The total Group posted sales of 13.7 billion Danish kroner in 2009 /2010.

In Germany, the company is through a subsidiary, which represented Danisco Germany GmbH. This employs in the year 2005, approximately 280 employees and is currently (as of 2010) at two locations ( Niebüll and Frankfurt ( Main) ) present.

Restructuring

Since 2000, the former food company has restructured several times. Thus, the area of production of ready meals and frozen foods was not continued from the year 2000. The year after we sold the packaging division of the Australian group Amcor. Further measures were in May 2007, the sale of the flavors division for 3.36 billion Danish kroner (451 million euros ) with about 800 employees and an annual turnover of 203 million euros (2006 ) to the Swiss Firmenich International SA and the shedding of the sugar division in 2009 at the German North Zucker AG.

Investments in this period were the acquisition of various international companies in the field of so-called white biotechnology. These included, inter alia, the Finnish company Cultor and the French Rhodia Food Ingredients. In addition, new manufacturing and research facilities have been built worldwide, for example in the Mexican Tecomán and Shanghai.

2011 Danisco was acquired by DuPont.