Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/S

Public limited companyCVR 16386901HirtshalsActive

Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/S is a public limited company, based in Hirtshals, active in wholesale of fish and fish products, founded in 1992. Net profit fell 7% from 2024 to 2025, ending at DKK 26.5m. Measured by gross profit, it ranks no. 5 of 115 companies in the industry in the database. Operations are spread over 3 production units.

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Key figures · financial year 2025

RevenueDKK 677.6m−6.8% vs. 2024
Net profitDKK 26.5m−7.3% vs. 2024
EquityDKK 67.3m+62.9% vs. 2024
Employees109latest month from CVR

What has changed

calculated from recorded figures and dates

Financials: 2025 against 2024

  • Gross profit fell 9% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 87.8m.
  • Revenue fell 7% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 677.6m.
  • Net profit fell 7% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 26.5m.
  • Equity rose 63% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 67.3m.

Employees

  • 8 more employees than a year earlier: 109 (08/2026) against 101 (08/2025).

Management and owners, last 24 months

  • New in management: Flemming Münster (board member, 23/03/2026).
  • Stepped down: Anders Hjulmand (board member, 23/03/2026).

Registrations, last 24 months

  • 14/03/2025: Moved to Søren Nordbysvej 27, 9850 Hirtshals

Calculated from the latest two annual reports in sequence and from registrations in CVR. A figure that is missing in either year gives no line, and we derive no figures.

Financial statements

Financial years 2020–2025 · amounts in DKK thousand

Equity and net profit

DKK 0DKK 10mDKK 20mDKK 30mDKK 40mDKK 50mDKK 60mDKK 70m202020212022202320242025
EquityNet profit
Financial figures for Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/S
202020212022202320242025Change
Revenue592,683667,195786,737913,262726,976677,559−6.8%
Gross profit96,40991,18988,85691,15796,37687,790−8.9%
Operating profit (EBIT)45,53242,80037,61433,47537,17727,054−27.2%
Profit before tax43,67642,17937,93127,02534,65932,059−7.5%
Net profit34,08133,05729,87720,33528,59426,505−7.3%
Total assets226,380222,786245,453263,075243,605207,820−14.7%
Equity60,71660,00456,30132,20241,31767,308+62.9%
Liabilities162,870159,945186,231216,541193,381136,215−29.6%
Cash and cash equivalents3,4086997261,549703338−51.9%
Average number of employees816871107103102−1%

Source: annual reports filed with the Danish Business Authority (XBRL). Figures for the company (not the group); change is the latest year against the year before. “–” means the figure is not stated in the annual report.

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DKK 0DKK 20mDKK 40mDKK 60mDKK 80mDKK 100m202020212022202320242025
Gross profitMedian, the industry (116 companies)

Signals from the financial statements

calculated from the 2025 figures
  • Profit for five years in a row

    Net result has been positive in 2021–2025.

    How is this calculated?

    Net result is positive in the five latest annual reports in a row.

The signals are rules applied to the figures in the annual reports. They are not an assessment or credit rating of the company. See Data and method.

Annual reports

6 financial years
Annual reports for Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/S
Financial yearPeriodPublishedFigures forDocuments
202501/01/2025 – 31/12/202525/06/2026The companyPDF not statedXBRL
202401/01/2024 – 31/12/202402/06/2025The companyPDFXBRL
202301/01/2023 – 31/12/202302/07/2024The companyPDFXBRL
202201/01/2022 – 31/12/202218/04/2023The companyPDFXBRL
202101/01/2021 – 31/12/202117/02/2022The companyPDFXBRL
202001/01/2020 – 31/12/202026/03/2021The companyPDFXBRL

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Employees

monthly figures from CVR
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Employees

Position in the industry

116 companies in the database

Comparison with the other companies in wholesale of fish and fish products based on the latest financial year.

Gross profitDKK 87.8mNo. 5 of 115
Better than 96% of the companies in the industry
EquityDKK 67.3mNo. 10 of 116
Better than 92% of the companies in the industry
Number of employees109No. 4 of 116
Better than 97% of the companies in the industry

Industry median: gross profit DKK 6.3m, net profit DKK 840k, equity DKK 6.5m, 7 employees.

DKK 100kDKK 777kDKK 6mDKK 47mDKK 184.3mHere
Distribution of gross profit for 111 companies in the industry (latest financial year, logarithmic scale). Amber bar: where this company sits.

Compared with similar companies

size, age and company form
Rank among similar companies
GroupGross profitEquity
Companies with 50–199 employees4,467 companies in the comparison
No. 830of 4,412
Better than 81%
No. 950of 4,466
Better than 79%
Same industry and 50–199 employees12 companies in the comparison
No. 4of 12
Better than 73%
No. 5of 12
Better than 64%
Companies that are at least 30 years old10,276 companies in the comparison
No. 945of 10,152
Better than 91%
No. 1,660of 10,275
Better than 84%
All companies of type A/S18,025 companies in the comparison
No. 1,765of 17,786
Better than 90%
No. 2,955of 18,024
Better than 84%

The rank is calculated among companies in the database with a figure for the latest financial year, and is shown only for groups of at least ten companies.

Compare with the industry

Wholesale of fish and fish products
Gross profit
  1. Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/SDKK 87.8m
  2. A. Espersen A/SDKK 365.1m
  3. Polar Seafood Denmark A/SDKK 360.6m
Net profit
  1. Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/SDKK 26.5m
  2. A. Espersen A/S−DKK 256.6m
  3. Polar Seafood Denmark A/SDKK 172.5m
Equity
  1. Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/SDKK 67.3m
  2. A. Espersen A/SDKK 241.2m
  3. Polar Seafood Denmark A/SDKK 1.1bn
Employees
  1. Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/S109
  2. A. Espersen A/S109
  3. Polar Seafood Denmark A/S179

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Owners and group

from the Public Ownership Register
Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/S

Management

5 active registrations

Executive management

Executive management at Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/S
NameRoleAppointed
Morten Carelius NielsenDirector30/06/2021

Board of directors

Board of directors at Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/S
NameRoleAppointed
Morten Carelius NielsenBoard member07/07/2016
Ivar WulffChair of the board11/10/2021
Lene FammestadBoard member06/02/2024
Flemming MünsterBoard member23/03/2026
Founders
Jens Christian Schlie, Kaj Johan Schlie, Anders Hjulmand
Former management (11)
Former management at Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/S
NameRoleAppointedResigned
Kaj Johan SchlieBoard member18/08/199231/12/2023
Kaj Johan SchlieDirector18/08/199230/06/2021
Niels Aage NielsenBoard member10/10/200007/07/2016
Jens Christian SchlieBoard member04/08/200411/10/2021
Anders HjulmandChair of the board04/08/200410/10/2021
Bent Lygum PoderBoard member04/08/200417/05/2007
Bent Roland NielsenBoard member17/05/200707/07/2016
Sjur Svenningsson MalmBoard member09/01/201711/10/2021
Henning BeltestadBoard member09/01/201711/10/2021
Anders HjulmandBoard member11/10/202123/03/2026
Hege Torvund NilsenBoard member11/10/202113/04/2023

Signing rule: Selskabet tegnes af en direktør eller af to bestyrelsesmedlemmer i forening.

Address and production units

3 active production units

Søren Nordbysvej 27
9850 Hirtshals

Hjørring Municipality · Postcode 9850

Other companies at the address (1)

Production units
Production unitAddressEmployeesP number
Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/SSøren Nordbysvej 27, 9850 Hirtshals1091001090338
Brdr. Schlie Fiskeeksport A/SSøren Nordbysvej 42, 9850 Hirtshals–1029459882
Brdr. Schlie Fiskeeksport A/SPeder Skramsvej 4, 9850 Hirtshals–1029828535

Purpose

Selskabets formål er at drive handel og produktionsvirksomhed med fisk samt anden dermed efter bestyrelsens skøn beslægtet virksomhed.

The purpose is quoted from the register in Danish.

Changes year by year

49 registered events
20263 changesaccounts 1 · management 2
  • Annual report for 2025 published
  • Flemming Münster appointed board member
  • Anders Hjulmand stepped down as board member
20252 changesaccounts 1 · address 1
  • Annual report for 2024 published
  • Moved to Søren Nordbysvej 27, 9850 Hirtshals
20243 changesaccounts 1 · management 1 · name 1
  • Annual report for 2023 published
  • Lene Fammestad appointed board member
  • Name changed from BRDR. SCHLIE'S FISKEEKSPORT A/S to Lerøy Seafood Hirtshals A/S
20235 changesmanagement 2 · capital 1 · merger 1 · accounts 1
  • Kaj Johan Schlie stepped down as board member
  • Share capital changed from 520,000 DKK to 521,000 DKK
  • Merger registered in CVR
  • Annual report for 2022 published
  • Hege Torvund Nilsen stepped down as board member
20221 changeaccounts 1
  • Annual report for 2021 published
202110 changesmanagement 9 · accounts 1
  • Anders Hjulmand appointed board member
  • Ivar Wulff appointed chair of the board
  • Hege Torvund Nilsen appointed board member
  • Henning Beltestad stepped down as board member
  • Sjur Svenningsson Malm stepped down as board member
  • Jens Christian Schlie stepped down as board member
  • Anders Hjulmand stepped down as chair of the board
  • Morten Carelius Nielsen appointed director
  • Kaj Johan Schlie stepped down as director
  • Annual report for 2020 published
20172 changesmanagement 2
  • Henning Beltestad appointed board member
  • Sjur Svenningsson Malm appointed board member
20168 changesmanagement 3 · ownership 5
  • Morten Carelius Nielsen appointed board member
  • Bent Roland Nielsen stepped down as board member
  • Niels Aage Nielsen stepped down as board member
  • Lerøy Seafood Denmark A/S registered as owner (100%)
  • MÜNSTER INVEST ApS is no longer registered as owner
  • BRDR. SCHLIE HOLDING A/S is no longer registered as owner
  • Hedehuset ApS is no longer registered as owner
  • POROTI INVEST ApS is no longer registered as owner
20151 changeownership 1
  • MÜNSTER INVEST ApS registered as owner (5%)
20131 changecapital 1
  • Share capital changed from 500,000 DKK to 520,000 DKK
20073 changesmanagement 2 · address 1
  • Bent Roland Nielsen appointed board member
  • Bent Lygum Poder stepped down as board member
  • Moved to Søren Nordbysvej 27-29, 9850 Hirtshals
20046 changesmanagement 3 · ownership 3
  • Bent Lygum Poder appointed board member
  • Anders Hjulmand appointed chair of the board
  • Jens Christian Schlie appointed board member
  • BRDR. SCHLIE HOLDING A/S registered as owner (25%)
  • Hedehuset ApS registered as owner (33.33%)
  • POROTI INVEST ApS registered as owner (20%)
20001 changemanagement 1
  • Niels Aage Nielsen appointed board member
19923 changesfounded 1 · management 2
  • Registered as BRDR. SCHLIE'S FISKEEKSPORT A/S
  • Kaj Johan Schlie appointed director
  • Kaj Johan Schlie appointed board member

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Source and updates

The information comes from the Danish Central Business Register (Danish Business Authority) and from annual reports filed with the Danish Business Authority. Last synchronised 24/10/2026.

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