Enterprises and groups
How many active enterprises are located in Denmark and how are they allocated across activities? How many employees do they have? You can also find statistics on enterprises that are part of an enterprise group.
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An enterprise that achieves an economic activity during the reference year, which exceeds what is characterised as being of hobby-like nature.
A parent company together with one or more subsidiaries constitutes an enterprise group. A subsidiary company can have only one direct parent company. The parent company is the company that exercises controlling influence over the company's financial and operating decisions.
Staff (excluding apprentices) whose regular working hours are the same as the collectively agreed or customary hours worked in the enterprise, even if their contract is for less than one year.
Selected statistics on Enterprises and groups
Change in the number of enterprises
The following statistics, register and sources are used as input to the General enterprise statistic:
- Accounts statistics (Non-agricultural industries, accounts)
- VAT statistics (via The Statistical Business Register)
- The employment statistics (via The Statistical Business Register)
- The Statistical Business Register.
Change in the number of enterprise groups
The statistics is entirely based on registers. Sources for background information are a number of internal sources notably the Business Statistics Enterprise Group Register and the General Enterprise Statistics and external sources such as the annual company reports and commercial data sources.
Change in the number of employees (measured by full time equivalents)
The following statistics, register and sources are used as input to the General enterprise statistic:
- Accounts statistics (Non-agricultural industries, accounts)
- VAT statistics (via The Statistical Business Register)
- The employment statistics (via The Statistical Business Register)
- The Statistical Business Register.
Allocation of enterprises by industry
The following statistics, register and sources are used as input to the General enterprise statistic:
- Accounts statistics (Non-agricultural industries, accounts)
- VAT statistics (via The Statistical Business Register)
- The employment statistics (via The Statistical Business Register)
- The Statistical Business Register.
Geographic allocation of enterprises
The following statistics, register and sources are used as input to the General enterprise statistic:
- Accounts statistics (Non-agricultural industries, accounts)
- VAT statistics (via The Statistical Business Register)
- The employment statistics (via The Statistical Business Register)
- The Statistical Business Register.
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The purpose of the statistic Enterprise groups in Denmark is to describe enterprise group relations amongst Danish companies. Thus the statistic contributes to the description of the business structure in Denmark. The statistic was complied for the first time for the reference year 2009.
The purpose of the statistics is to give a coherent and consistent description of the Danish business structure at the enterprise level.
The General enterprise statistics, which were compiled for the first time for the year 1999, have replaced the Enterprise statistics produced for the years 1992-1999.
The purpose of the statistics is to monitor business trends and economic activity in Denmark through information on purchases and sales as reported by firms covered by the Danish VAT system. The statistics contain information on domestic sales, total sales, domestic purchases and total purchases.