Carlsberg aims high in China
Brewing giant Carlsberg has launched its Tuborg label in China, part of a rejuvenation project following a re-launch in Russian and India earlier this year and part of its strategy to introduce the…
MoreFalck growth abroad
Falck, market-leader in Denmark and Europe’s largest private emergency services provider, continues to expand abroad. 46 per cent of the company’s total DKK10.2bn ($1.8bn) business came from foreign-based business last year, according to…
MoreCimber cuts 200 workers
Struggling Danish-Ukranian airline Cimber Sterling is to make 200 workers redundant in a desperate effort to cut costs. At the same time, the company will in future concentrate on domestic flights in Denmark…
MoreNordic countries loan money to IMF’s crisis fund
Denmark, Norway and Sweden have pledged to contribute a total of US26bn (DKK147bn) to the new crisis fund established by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Denmark alone will contribute approximately US7bn (DKK40bn), with…
MoreLeftists demand DKK15,000 per month safety net
A Red/Green Alliance proposal that anybody dependent upon the state for an income – social benefits recipients, students, pensioners – should be given a flat rate of at least DKK15,000 per month would…
MoreTwo-year bonus for unemployed
The government is prepared to give long-term unemployed welfare recipients a tax-free bonus if they get a job. At her weekly press conference, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said newly employed workers would get…
MoreHunger striker’s supporters condemn DPP
Supporters of the Danish-Bahraini Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who’s now been on a hunger strike for 69 days, have condemned the Danish People’s Party’s Søren Espersen for questioning the human rights activist’s true motives by…
MoreBoom in internet trading costs the state
The state is losing out on hundreds of millions of kroner every year as Danish consumers increasingly buy items abroad on the internet. Although EU retailers are required to add Danish VAT to…
MorePenkowa’s research freezer found at University
A 400-liter chest freezer containing tissue samples that belong to disgraced University of Copenhagen neuroscientist Milena Penkowa, accused of embezzlement, forgery, scientific fraud, and misappropriation of research grants, has suddenly appeared at the Faculty…
MoreDatacentre will strengthen research collaboration
Full of new hardware from Hewlett-Packard and Intel, a new Danish super-computer has been unveiled that delivers computing power equivalent to 10,000 modern laptops. The computer, called Thor Datacentre, was developed as part…
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