The Danish Crown group is also Europe's largest meat processing company.

In the financial year 2020–21, Danish Crown's exports amounted to DKK 24 billion kroner.

[1] In the following 40–50 years, a large number of cooperative pig abattoirs were established across the country.

In 1960, the cooperative abattoirs began to merge in order to better have the strength to carry out the tasks with, among other things, sales, marketing and product development.

[citation needed] In 1990, Danish Crown was established as a fusion of Wenbo, Østjyske and Tulip Food Company (which included Horsens Andels-Svineslagteri from 1887), and in 1994, Slagteri Syd was merged in.