AAK (company)

AAK
Public (Nasdaq Stockholm: AAK)
Industry Vegetable Oils and Fats
Founded 2005
Headquarters Malmö, Sweden
Key people

Georg Brunstam (Chairman of the board),

Johan Westman (President and CEO)
Revenue SEK 26,436 million (2017)[1]
Increase SEK 1,786 million (2017)[1]
Number of employees
 3,399 (2017)[1]
Website www.aak.com

AAK, formerly AarhusKarlshamn, is a Swedish-Danish company and producer of value-adding vegetable oils and fats.[2]

The company's products and solutions are used in a wide variety of applications in the food, confectionery, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, chemical and animal feed industries.[2]

The company, formerly known as AarhusKarlshamn, was founded in 2005 through the merger of Karlshamns AB (founded 1918 in Karlshamn, Sweden) and Aarhus United A/S (founded 1871 in Aarhus, Denmark).[3]

The company has been listed, as the current legal entity, on the Stockholm Stock Exchange (OMX) since 2005 and had a total market cap of about 37,9 billion SEK,[4] as of September 26, 2018. As of December 31, 2017, the group had a total turnover of 26,436 million SEK, an operating profit of 1,786 million SEK, and employed 3,399 employees globally.[2][5]

Production facilities

The group has production facilities in numerous countries with its main production units situated in:[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Annual Report 2017" (PDF). AAK (publ.). Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  2. 1 2 3 4 http://mb.cision.com/Main/871/2509266/832545.pdf
  3. ↑ "Our story". AAK AB (publ.). Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  4. ↑ "Aktieinformation". OMXNASDAQ. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  5. ↑ "Annual Report 2017" (PDF).
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