Business Round-Up: Danish brands are a big hit in China

Denmark is among the 15 largest e-commerce importing countries in China, DI Trade reports.

China is considered to be the world’s largest e-commerce market, and the COVID-19 crisis has only served to develop it further as it has boosted online transactions across the globe.

High quality of Danish items
The Chinese e-market is easy to enter because many companies such as TMALL Global, the Chinese online marketplace for foreign firms, do not ask a foreign enterprise to be registered in China in order to sell its items.

Therefore, Danish companies can sell their goods directly from their warehouses in Denmark to Chinese consumers as cross-border sales.

Danish companies are popular in China as they are known for the high-quality of the shipped items.


Mikkeller starts collaboration with Burger King
Mikkeller beer is now available at Burger King as part of the burger menu. Denmark’s most successful brewery has launched a collaboration with the fast-food giant Burger King in both Denmark and Sweden. However, as Burger King does not usually sell any alcohol, only a 0.3 percent beer can be purchased.

Food waste rescue app Too Good To Go is now available in Skåne
The Danish app Too Good To Go has been launched in Scania, News Øresund reports. The app aims to make it easier for restaurants and shops to sell food that otherwise would be thrown out. Too Good To Go is used in ten European countries and has already helped to rescue over 39 million meals.

Danish app uses artificial intelligence to spot skin changes
Danish company Miiskin is launching the world’s first AI app, which makes it possible to scan a user’s whole body in order to spot changes to the skin that might not be obviously visible. Miiskin has worked in partnership with a number of leading organisations such as the Skin Cancer Foundation and the Cancer Society. In Denmark, around 16,000 new cases of skin and maternal cancer are found every year, with 71 percent of them arising from new moles and 29 percent from existing ones. The so-called ‘Automatic Skin Imaging’ developed by Miiskin makes it easier to detect changes to the skin and show them to your doctor.

Novo Nordisk’s type 2 diabetes pill has been approved in Japan
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved Novo Nordisk’s Rybelsus, the first and only oral glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA). The tablet is used to treat adults with type 2 diabetes. Previously, Rybelsus has also been approved in the US, the EU, Switzerland and Canada.





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