Company type | Private limited company |
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Industry | Shipping |
Founded | 1969 |
Founder | Arne Simonsen |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Arne Simonsen (CEO) |
Revenue | DKK 6,7312 million (2012) [1] |
DKK 90 million (2012) [1] | |
Number of employees | 2,410 (2013)) [1] |
Website | scan-group.com |
Scan Group is a shipping and logistics company based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The company was founded as Scan-Shipping by Arne Simonsen on 1 April 1969. [2] Scan-Shipping Airfreight was established in 1978. The first office outside Denmark opened 1973 in New York (since 1988 Shipco Transport Inc.). The name was changed to Scan Group in 2010. [3]
The company is headquartered at Snorresgade 18–20 in the Islands Brygge district of central Copenhagen. The building is the former home of International Harbester's Danish subsidiary.
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