Danish Crown is a farmer-owned meat producer with its head office in Randers, Denmark. It is owned through the cooperative Leverandørselskabet Danish Crown AmbA, and its 2024/25 annual report counts 4,850 Danish farmer owners. The group includes the Danish Crown business unit, with Industry, Foods and UK divisions, as well as Danish Crown Beef, the trading company ESS-FOOD, the Polish processed meat maker Sokołów, the Swedish slaughterhouse operator KLS, the casings business DAT-Schaub and the organic and free-range meat brand Friland.
Danish Crown ranks 57th in Food Engineering’s 2026 Top 100 Food and Beverage Companies, which lists its food sales at $10,277 million (DKK 65,415 million). Niels Ulrich Duedahl is Group CEO, and Søren Skou chairs the Board of Directors.