Co-operative slaughterhouse companies

Danish Crown
Marsvej 43, Postboks 9, 8900 Randers
Tel: + 45 89 19 19 19, Fax: + 45 86 44 80 66

Danish Crown is Europe's largest slaughterhouse company, slaughtering about 18.7 million pigs which is 73 percent of the total danish pig production. The company is owned by 12,000 co-op pig farmers and employs around 13,000 workers in its pork business.Affiliated companies are Tulip Food Company, Tulip Ltd (UK), Plumrose USA Inc.(USA), Sokolow (Poland), ESS-FOOD, DSI (DAT-Schaub International), DAT-Schaub amba and Scan Hide. In total Danish Crown employs around 25,000 people in its abattoirs and processing plants at home and abroad.

Chairman: Pig producer Niels Mikkelsen
Managing director: Kjeld Johannesen

Tican
Strandvejen 6, 7700 Thisted
Tel: + 45 99 19 23 33, Fax: + 45 97 92 47 03

TiCan slaughters 1.6 million pigs annually, accounting for 6.2 per cent of the total danish pig production. The company is owned by 700 co-op pig farmers and employs more than 1,400 workers at its abattoirs and processing facilities in Denmark and abroad. Affiliated companies are TiCan Foods, TiCan UK Holding Ltd., TiCan UK Ltd., TiCan Chilled Ltd., Direct Taable Foods Ltd. and part of the German Euro Century Fleisch G.m.b.H.

Chairman: Pig producer Jens Jørgen Henriksen
Managing director: Ove Thejls