Kraks Vejviser 1932 Handelsregister

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KRAKS EXPORT DIRECTORY OF DENMARK Kraks Legat, the publishers of the standard work Kraks Vejviser (address book and commercial directory of Den­ mark) have plcasure in presenting the sixth edition of Kraks Export Directory of Denmark. Kraks Vejviser, established in 1770, is the oldest existing directory in the world. It has in the course of time, be- come an indispensable hand-book to the Danish community, the contents, particularly the sections relative to trade con- ditions, being invariably consulted whenever and wherever the establishment of business connexions is contemplated, whether in Denmark or between parties in Denmark and abroad. This is evidenced, among other things, by the faet that the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs dispatches the Directory regularly to the Danish Embassies, Consulates and the more important Vice-consulates abroad. The last decades have witnessed a very eonsiderable growth of the commercial intercourse between Denmark and other countries. This faet has been experienced by Kraks in many ways not only by the inereasing demand for the Directory abroad, but also by the constantly growing number of inquiries the editors receive from abroad touching Danish commerce and industry. As a consequence of this the publishers resolved in 1926 to publish Kraks Export Directory of Denmark in the form of a comprehensive compendium precisely calculated to facilitate and promote commercial intercourse, the plan hav­ ing the support of the Chairmen of the two leading trade organizations in Denmark: The Merchants Guild Committee and the Chamber of Commerce for the Provinces. In the following pages some details are given of Denmark’s export trade together with brief directions for using the different sections. The list of firms and the list of products contain, as far as possible, the names of all exporting firms in Denmark arranged townwise and according to the nature of the article exported. In the Advertisement section several of the exporting firms have had supplementary information inserted respecting their goods. The publishers purpose issuing annually in the montb of January a new edition of this directory, so that fully reliable and up-to-date information may always be available. Danish Export Trade.

Mediterranean world of antiquity — and a trade has been developed which, in proportion to the size of the country and its population, is second only to that of one or two other European states. The exchange of goods consequent hereupon hås rendered‘"possible a highly developed industry and trade, and the production of first quality goods in an inereasing number of fields, is cal­ culated to satisfy the most fastidious demands of the wide range of consumers catered for. Danish foreign trade. Danish merchants have from the earliest times taken an active part in the world’s trade, ånd as far back as in 1616 an East-Indian company was established in Co- penhagen. This was followed by the formation of a number of other trading companies, of which the Asiatic company, founded in the year 1732, acquired the greatest importance, but was subsequently obliged to suspend its operations in 1843. The war lasting from 1807—14 practi­ cally destroyed the trade of Copenhagen for many years, and the recovery only commenced in the period 1830—40, since when the following decades have witnessed a sub- stantial and continuous development of Danish trade. The world-embracing trading concern: The East Asiatic Company of Copenhagen was founded in the year 1897, and the share Capital of this company now stands at 50.000.000 Kroner. The company has in the course of time established a number of affiliated companies comprising shipping, ship-building and various other undertakings in connexion with forestry and plantation activities, in­ dustry and trade, in different parts of the world. The opening of the Copenhagen Free Port in 1894 naturally resulted in practically all transit trade moving

The Kingdom of Denmark though one of the smallest countries in Europe plays a large and important part in world economy by virtue of the significance of its geographical situation as a factor in international com- merce, and by reason of its highly developed trade. Denmark is a Iowland country offering good con- ditions for agriculture, but, unlike England, France and Poland it has no coal, nor does it possess the huge resources of water power of countries like Norway, Switzerland "and Austria; mueh Iess oilfields like those °f North America, Caucasus and Roumania. The power resources in this country represented by peat, wood for fuel, water and wind, normally furnish barely more fhan about 3 % of the requirements, and with respect to minerals the country is equally poor. Borings in the strata of the earth, apart from those undertaken in the rocky island of Bornholm have nowhere pierced through the chalk formation, so that Danish soil yields no iron °r other metals, potash or other Chemical products of importance. Neither does the country produce cotton, oleiferous seeds, rubber, timber, tobacco etc. Notwithstanding Denmark being in a marked degree devoid of natural sources of wealth in the way of mine- ralia the Danish people have proved themselves capable °f making up for this handicap by evolving a scientifi- cally carried out process of amelioration applied to Da- Oish agricultural products and also to raw materials and semi-worked goods imported from countries more favour- ®d from the hånd of nature. The Danish people have aiso, with no small measure of success, exploited the fa- vourable geographical situation of the country, forming as it does a connecting link between several of the leading countries in the world — not unlike Hellas in the