9,000 employees involved: Danish Crown cancels huge merger

Danish Crown's management is now canceling an internal merger that has involved 9,000 employees and a turnover of DKK 35 billion. Instead, the business is being split into several independent units. One of them is to ensure a comeback in a market that was previously the crown jewel of the slaughterhouses' export business.

Danish Crown splits into three billion-dollar groupsDenmark's largest meat group, Danish Crown, which is still struggling to emerge from its long-term crisis, is splitting its pork activities into three entire groups.