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Georg Jensen product assortment includes diamond and precious stone jewelry,
platinum, gold and silver jewelry, watches, stainless steel and silver cutlery,
hollowware, gift articles for the home and office, and seasonal decorations.
Aagaard
Holding company Bræmer Holding A/S (recently including Kranz & Ziegler)
Business area: Distributor of jewelry
Revenues: Gross profit DKK 72 Mio.
Employees: 147
Ownership: Capidea
Aagaard is a leading distributor of jewelry in Denmark. The company designs, sells,
and distributes jewelry in precious metals in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany,
United Kingdom, Norway, Austria, and USA. The company is located in Svendborg
and Randers.
Shoes and Leather
ECCO
Business area: A world leading brand within innovative and comfortable quality shoes
and other leather apparels
Revenues: DKK 6.1 Bio.
Employees: 15,000
Ownership: Privately owned
Karl Toosbuy—the founder of ECCO—had a dream. He wanted to own a shoe
factory and run his own business. Trained from an early age as a shoemaker, he
gradually rose through the ranks and by his early 30s was managing a shoe factory
in Copenhagen. The business, however, was not his.
As a result, functional, comfortable ECCO shoes were launched in the 1970s and
became an instant success.
Karl Toosbuy was also the first to realize that the shoe industry needed large-scale
industrial production and went on to buy and develop high-tech machinery. He was
also the first to move production to developing countries in order to remain
competitive.