Wealthy China ravenous for Danish food products

Elsewhere, medical device firm Acarix nets million kroner investment from Puhua Jingxin

China’s growing middle class has developed a penchant for Danish food products, according to the latest export figures from the Danish agriculture and food council, Landbrug & Fødevarer.

Last year, Danish food products were sold to China and Hong Kong to the tune of 10 billion kroner, and this year the exports were as high as 8.8 billion kroner for the first six months of 2016.

“Firstly, there is a growing group of well-to-do Chinese people who can afford quality food products and to travel abroad where they become inspired by food from other parts of the world,” said Michael Stahlschmidt, a consultant for issues regarding trade policy and market access at Landbrug & Fødevarer.

“Secondly, Denmark and Danish food has a strong brand in China.”

The brand is expected to be further bolstered this week when a delegation consisting of 12 Danish companies takes part in China’s biggest food fair, the ‘Food and Hotel China’ fair in Shanghai on November 9.

The Danish participants in Shanghai will be 3-Star from Horsens, Amanda Seafoods from Frederikshavn, Danpo from Give, ESS-FOOD from Brøndby, Fynbo Foods from Vrå, Jacobsens Bakery from Hedensted, Mille Baby from Store Heddinge, Royal Greenland from Svenstrup, Scandic Food from Vejle, Skovlyst Production from Farum, Tulip Food Company from Randers, and Tylstrup Kager  – Danish Speciality Foods from Støvring.

READ MORE: Funen brewery caps epic China deal

No Jingxin this one
In related news, the Chinese strategic investor Puhua Jingxin has decided to invest a double-digit million kroner amount into the Danish medical device firm Acarix.

“Following the successful completion of a further validation study, we were already on track for reimbursement applications and commercial launch in Q2 2017,” said Søren Rysholt Christiansen, the CEO of Acarix.

“We are delighted to partner with Puhua Jingxin – a joint healthcare fund aligning strategic resources from Puhua Healthcare and major pharmaceutical company Zhejiang Jingxin Pharmaceuticals. This new investment will enable us to ramp up both production and our sales organization.”

The company was founded in 2009 as a spinout from the pharma giant Coloplast.

TOP STORIES

  • Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    China’s 12 leading wind turbine makers have signed a pact to end a domestic price war that has seen turbines sold at below cost price in a race to corner the market and which has compromised quality and earnings in the sector.

  • Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Novo Nordisk’s TV commercial for the slimming drug Wegovy has been shown roughly 32,000 times and reached 8.8 billion US viewers since June.

  • Retention is the new attraction

    Retention is the new attraction

    Many people every year choose to move to Denmark and Denmark in turn spends a lot of money to attract and retain this international talent. Are they staying though? If they leave, do they go home or elsewhere? Looking at raw figures, we can see that Denmark is gradually becoming more international but not everyone is staying. 

  • Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Denmark’s Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen attended the Association of the Unites States Army’s annual expo in Washington DC from 14 to 16 October, together with some 20 Danish leading defence companies, where he says Danish drone technology attracted significant attention.

  • Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors, pharmacies and politicians have voiced concern that the pharmaceutical industry’s inability to supply opioid prescriptions in smaller packets, and the resulting over-prescription of addictive morphine pills, could spur levels of opioid abuse in Denmark.

  • Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Residents of cooperative housing associations in Copenhagen and in Frederiksberg distribute vacant housing to their own family members to a large extent. More than one in six residents have either parents, siblings, adult children or other close family living in the same cooperative housing association.

Connect club

Connect Club is your gateway to a vibrant programme of events and an international community in Denmark.

Sign up here

Career

  • Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 of September, The Copenhagen Post will be at International Citizen Days in Øksnehallen on Vesterbro, Copenhagen. Admission is free and thousands of internationals are expected to attend

  • Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Chisom Udeze, the founder of Diversify – a global organization that works at the intersection of inclusion, democracy, freedom, climate sustainability, justice, and belonging – shares how struggling to find a community in Norway motivated her to build a Nordic-wide professional network. We also hear from Dr. Poornima Luthra, Associate Professor at CBS, about how to address bias in the workplace.

  • Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality, home to Denmark’s largest infrastructure project – the Fehmarnbelt tunnel connection to Germany – has launched a new jobseeker support package for the accompanying partners of international employees in the area. The job-to-partner package offers free tailored sessions on finding a job and starting a personal business.

Want to advertise your job with CPH Post?

Contact us

Jobs