Louis Poulsen A/S

Public limited companyCVR 59742817København KActive

Louis Poulsen A/S is a public limited company, based in København K, active in manufacture of electric lighting equipment, founded in 1958. Net profit rose 28% from 2024 to 2025, ending at DKK 152m. Measured by gross profit, it ranks no. 1 of 50 companies in the industry in the database. Profit has grown three years in a row.

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Key figures · financial year 2025

RevenueDKK 966m+7.7% vs. 2024
Net profitDKK 152m+27.7% vs. 2024
EquityDKK 332m+0.9% vs. 2024
Employees331latest month from CVR

What has changed

calculated from recorded figures and dates

Financials: 2025 against 2024

  • Gross profit rose 8% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 507m.
  • Revenue rose 8% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 966m.
  • Net profit rose 28% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 152m.

Employees

  • 9 fewer employees than a year earlier: 331 (07/2026) against 340 (07/2025).

Management and owners, last 24 months

  • New in management: René Pilgaard Vinther (deputy board member, 06/10/2025), Jens Christian Ritter (deputy board member, 06/10/2025) and Claus Gregersen (board member, 21/09/2026) (+3).
  • Stepped down: Giovanni Casali (board member, 21/09/2026), Dalila Dolci (board member, 21/09/2026) and Alberto Michele Maria Toni (chair of the board, 30/04/2025) (+1).

Registrations, last 24 months

  • 01/01/2025: Industry changed to Manufacture of electric lighting equipment (274000)

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 2019–2025 · amounts in DKK thousand

Equity and net profit

DKK 0DKK 100mDKK 200mDKK 300mDKK 400mDKK 500mDKK 600m2019202020212022202320242025
EquityNet profit
Financial figures for Louis Poulsen A/S
2019202020212022202320242025Change
Revenue598,000912,0001,094,0001,125,000837,000897,000966,000+7.7%
Gross profit244,000438,000549,000545,000409,000469,000507,000+8.1%
Operating profit (EBIT)107,000165,000237,000198,000115,000177,000214,000+20.9%
Profit before tax98,000161,000221,000179,00099,000159,000200,000+25.8%
Net profit77,000125,000172,000140,00075,000119,000152,000+27.7%
Total assets829,000761,000864,000821,000767,000760,000818,000+7.6%
Equity552,000394,000422,000339,000306,000329,000332,000+0.9%
Liabilities231,000367,000442,000482,000461,000431,000486,000+12.8%
Cash and cash equivalents41,000147,000113,00059,00045,00038,00055,000+44.7%
Average number of employees–449––––––

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 100mDKK 200mDKK 300mDKK 400mDKK 500m2019202020212022202320242025
Gross profitMedian, the industry (50 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

7 financial years
Annual reports for Louis Poulsen A/S
Financial yearPeriodPublishedFigures forDocuments
202501/01/2025 – 31/12/202504/05/2026The companyPDF not statedXBRL
202401/01/2024 – 31/12/202425/08/2025The companyPDFXBRL
202301/01/2023 – 31/12/202318/06/2024The companyPDFXBRL
202201/01/2022 – 31/12/202204/07/2023The companyPDFXBRL
202101/01/2021 – 31/12/202118/05/2022The companyPDFXBRL
202001/01/2020 – 31/12/202024/06/2021The companyPDFXBRL
201901/01/2019 – 31/12/201910/07/2020The companyPDFXBRL

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Employees

monthly figures from CVR
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Employees

Position in the industry

50 companies in the database

Comparison with the other companies in manufacture of electric lighting equipment based on the latest financial year.

Gross profitDKK 507mNo. 1 of 50
Better than 100% of the companies in the industry
EquityDKK 332mNo. 1 of 50
Better than 100% of the companies in the industry
Number of employees331No. 1 of 50
Better than 100% of the companies in the industry

Industry median: gross profit DKK 4.7m, net profit DKK 458k, equity DKK 3.6m, 10 employees.

DKK 198kDKK 1.4mDKK 10mDKK 71.2mDKK 263.6mHere
Distribution of gross profit for 47 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 200–499 employees796 companies in the comparison
No. 53of 763
Better than 93%
No. 175of 796
Better than 78%
Companies that are at least 30 years old10,276 companies in the comparison
No. 176of 10,152
Better than 98%
No. 517of 10,275
Better than 95%
All companies of type A/S18,025 companies in the comparison
No. 283of 17,786
Better than 98%
No. 973of 18,024
Better than 95%

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

Manufacture of electric lighting equipment
Gross profit
  1. Louis Poulsen A/SDKK 507m
  2. Wiseled ApSDKK 147.5m
  3. Effection A/SDKK 112.7m
Net profit
  1. Louis Poulsen A/SDKK 152m
  2. Wiseled ApSDKK 77m
  3. Effection A/SDKK 4.5m
Equity
  1. Louis Poulsen A/SDKK 332m
  2. Wiseled ApSDKK 93.6m
  3. Effection A/SDKK 29m
Employees
  1. Louis Poulsen A/S331
  2. Wiseled ApS32
  3. Effection A/S192

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Owners and group

from the Public Ownership Register
Owners
  • Luminous Designs Investments ApS100%
Louis Poulsen A/S

Management

8 active registrations

Executive management

Executive management at Louis Poulsen A/S
NameRoleAppointed
Søren Mygind EskildsenCEO22/11/2018

Board of directors

Board of directors at Louis Poulsen A/S
NameRoleAppointed
Lars Stilling PedersenBoard member27/05/2013
Jesper Westergaard JensenBoard member01/01/2022
René Pilgaard VintherDeputy board member06/10/2025
Jens Christian RitterDeputy board member06/10/2025
Claus GregersenBoard member21/09/2026
Mark JohnstonChair of the board21/09/2026
Steffen Kaj Thostrup PedersenBoard member21/09/2026
Former management (82)
Former management at Louis Poulsen A/S
NameRoleAppointedResigned
Preben Harton BlankensteinerBoard member01/04/195822/01/1990
Kjeld FruensgaardBoard member01/04/195821/05/1997
Kaare Vagner JensenBoard member01/04/195822/01/1990
Leif MårtenssonBoard member01/04/195805/07/1990
Klaus IrnerBoard member01/04/195822/01/1990
Egon AndersenChair of the board01/04/195830/06/2000
Knud Lindberg SantBoard member01/04/195822/01/1990
Mogens MunkBoard member01/04/195811/03/1988
Peter Henrik RæbildBoard member01/04/195805/07/1990
Johnny Brix PetersenDeputy board member01/04/195805/07/1990
Bjørn MeierDirector01/04/195822/01/1990
Erik Preben HolmBoard member01/04/195809/06/2000
Erik Preben HolmDirector01/04/195831/12/2005
Henrik OlsenBoard member01/04/195828/02/1994
Henrik OlsenDirector01/04/195828/02/1994
Hans Allan AnderssonChair of the board01/04/195822/01/1990
Henrik ØgaardBoard member21/05/199719/05/1998
Caspar AndersenBoard member19/05/199830/06/2000
Jesper SvendsenBoard member09/06/200030/06/2000
Keld DroobBoard member30/06/200006/09/2007
Egon AndersenDirector30/06/200007/01/2004
John HanssenChair of the board30/06/200024/05/2006
Torben CarlsenBoard member30/06/200018/12/2000
Kaj RasmussenBoard member07/09/200021/05/2003
Torsten Erik RasmussenBoard member02/01/200231/12/2005
Ib Kurt NielsenBoard member21/05/200301/01/2006
Hans Ejler RasmussenBoard member21/05/200323/09/2005
Henrik Vilhelm JensenBoard member21/05/200323/09/2005
Kim NolteDeputy board member21/05/200301/01/2006
Torben Gravlev QvistDeputy board member21/05/200325/10/2005
Jonna ChristensenDeputy board member21/05/200325/10/2005
Peter ThorsenCEO31/12/200501/02/2008
Gert EgChair of the board24/05/200606/09/2007
Viggo Nedergaard JensenBoard member24/05/200606/09/2007
Morten Agerby SchultzDeputy board member30/05/200724/11/2008
Kurt Grüner VackerBoard member30/05/200703/04/2017
Astrid Sine AttermannDeputy board member30/05/200706/01/2009
Søren SchøllhammerChair of the board06/09/200717/12/2014
Peter ThorsenBoard member06/09/200715/12/2008
Kurt Hedegaard CarstensenBoard member06/09/200731/03/2009
Morten Windfeldt JensenBoard member06/09/200731/03/2009
Kurt Hedegaard CarstensenChief financial officer21/12/200724/11/2008
Lorenzo TargettiCEO01/02/200830/06/2010
Hans Erik LindebergBoard member17/12/200817/12/2014
Steffen Kjeld ThomsenBoard member31/03/200928/10/2011
Lorenzo TargettiBoard member31/03/200912/10/2010
Enrico BassoCEO01/07/201001/04/2012
Enrico BassoBoard member12/10/201001/01/2012
Lorenzo TargettiBoard member01/04/201231/07/2013
Lorenzo TargettiCEO01/04/201231/07/2013
Conny ThraneDeputy board member27/05/201303/04/2017
Martin Uno MogensenDeputy board member27/05/201301/12/2020
Luigi FerrandoBoard member31/07/201310/12/2014
Luigi FerrandoCEO31/07/201310/12/2014
Allan Bach PedersenBoard member10/12/201401/08/2018
Allan Bach PedersenDirector10/12/201404/02/2015
Thomas VossChair of the board17/12/201401/08/2018
Per Olle Håkan BorgvallBoard member17/12/201401/08/2018
Christian EngstedCEO04/02/201511/04/2017
Peter RathsachBoard member10/02/201516/12/2015
Peter le FèvreDirector16/12/201519/02/2019
Dario Carlo FumagalliBoard member16/12/201501/08/2018
Otto OttosenBoard member03/04/201701/01/2022
Martin HansenDeputy board member03/04/201713/02/2019
Christian EngstedBoard member01/07/201701/08/2018
Søren Mygind EskildsenDirector01/07/201721/11/2018
Peter RathsachDirector07/03/201831/07/2020
Søren Mygind EskildsenBoard member01/08/201822/11/2018
Mario BalestrazziBoard member01/08/201822/11/2018
John Crostarosa MowinckelChair of the board01/08/201822/11/2018
Dante RazzanoBoard member01/08/201822/11/2018
Thomas Ola StrömstedtBoard member01/08/201822/11/2018
Francesco MalvezziBoard member22/11/201831/03/2021
Davide Ambrogio PelleBoard member22/11/201813/11/2020
Paolo SolariChair of the board22/11/201805/04/2019
Gabriele Del TorchioChair of the board05/04/201930/04/2021
Giovanni CasaliBoard member26/11/202021/09/2026
Dalila DolciBoard member31/03/202121/09/2026
Alessandro PolettoChair of the board30/04/202126/11/2021
Daniel LalondeChair of the board26/11/202114/10/2024
Alberto Michele Maria ToniChair of the board14/10/202430/04/2025
Elisabetta ScottiChair of the board30/04/202521/09/2026

Signing rule: Selskabet tegnes af et direktionsmedlem i forening med et bestyrelsesmedlem, af to bestyrelsesmedlemmer i forening eller af den samlede bestyrelse

Address and production units

2 active production units

Kuglegårdsvej 19
1434 København K

København Municipality · Postcode 1434

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Production units
Production unitAddressEmployeesP number
Louis Poulsen A/SIndustrivej Vest 41, 6600 Vejen2321011557526
Louis Poulsen A/SKuglegårdsvej 19, 1434 København K881002102445

Purpose

Selskabets formål er at drive virksomhed inden for handel og industri og anden i forbindelse hermed stående virksomhed.

The purpose is quoted from the register in Danish.

Changes year by year

142 registered events
20267 changesmanagement 6 · accounts 1
  • Claus Gregersen appointed board member
  • Mark Johnston appointed chair of the board
  • Steffen Kaj Thostrup Pedersen appointed board member
  • Elisabetta Scotti stepped down as chair of the board
  • Dalila Dolci stepped down as board member
  • Giovanni Casali stepped down as board member
  • Annual report for 2025 published
20256 changesmanagement 4 · accounts 1 · industry 1
  • Jens Christian Ritter appointed deputy board member
  • René Pilgaard Vinther appointed deputy board member
  • Annual report for 2024 published
  • Elisabetta Scotti appointed chair of the board
  • Alberto Michele Maria Toni stepped down as chair of the board
  • Industry changed to Manufacture of electric lighting equipment (274000)
20243 changesmanagement 2 · accounts 1
  • Alberto Michele Maria Toni appointed chair of the board
  • Daniel Lalonde stepped down as chair of the board
  • Annual report for 2023 published
20232 changesaccounts 1 · address 1
  • Annual report for 2022 published
  • Moved to Kuglegårdsvej 19, 1434 København K
20223 changesaccounts 1 · management 2
  • Annual report for 2021 published
  • Jesper Westergaard Jensen appointed board member
  • Otto Ottosen stepped down as board member
20219 changesmanagement 6 · accounts 1 · ownership 2
  • Daniel Lalonde appointed chair of the board
  • Alessandro Poletto stepped down as chair of the board
  • Annual report for 2020 published
  • Alessandro Poletto appointed chair of the board
  • Gabriele Del Torchio stepped down as chair of the board
  • Dalila Dolci appointed board member
  • Francesco Malvezzi stepped down as board member
  • Luminous Designs Investments ApS registered as owner (100%)
  • Luminous Designs Denmark ApS is no longer registered as owner
20205 changesmanagement 4 · accounts 1
  • Martin Uno Mogensen stepped down as deputy board member
  • Giovanni Casali appointed board member
  • Davide Ambrogio Pelle stepped down as board member
  • Peter Rathsach stepped down as director
  • Annual report for 2019 published
20197 changesmanagement 4 · ownership 2 · merger 1
  • Gabriele Del Torchio appointed chair of the board
  • Paolo Solari stepped down as chair of the board
  • Peter le Fèvre stepped down as director
  • Martin Hansen stepped down as deputy board member
  • Luminous Designs Denmark ApS registered as owner (100%)
  • LOUIS POULSEN HOLDING A/S is no longer registered as owner
  • Merger registered in CVR
201822 changesmanagement 21 · address 1
  • Paolo Solari appointed chair of the board
  • Søren Mygind Eskildsen appointed ceo
  • Francesco Malvezzi appointed board member
  • Davide Ambrogio Pelle appointed board member
  • Mario Balestrazzi stepped down as board member
  • Thomas Ola Strömstedt stepped down as board member
  • Dante Razzano stepped down as board member
  • John Crostarosa Mowinckel stepped down as chair of the board
  • Søren Mygind Eskildsen stepped down as board member
  • Søren Mygind Eskildsen stepped down as director
  • Moved to Kuglegårdsvej 19, 1434 København K
  • Mario Balestrazzi appointed board member
  • Thomas Ola Strömstedt appointed board member
  • Dante Razzano appointed board member
  • John Crostarosa Mowinckel appointed chair of the board
  • Søren Mygind Eskildsen appointed board member
  • Christian Engsted stepped down as board member
  • Dario Carlo Fumagalli stepped down as board member
  • Thomas Voss stepped down as chair of the board
  • Per Olle Håkan Borgvall stepped down as board member
  • Allan Bach Pedersen stepped down as board member
  • Peter Rathsach appointed director
20177 changesmanagement 7
  • Søren Mygind Eskildsen appointed director
  • Christian Engsted appointed board member
  • Christian Engsted stepped down as ceo
  • Martin Hansen appointed deputy board member
  • Otto Ottosen appointed board member
  • Conny Thrane stepped down as deputy board member
  • Kurt Grüner Vacker stepped down as board member
20161 changecapital 1
  • Share capital changed from 60,000,000 DKK to 10,000,000 DKK
20156 changesmanagement 6
  • Dario Carlo Fumagalli appointed board member
  • Peter le Fèvre appointed director
  • Peter Rathsach stepped down as board member
  • Peter Rathsach appointed board member
  • Christian Engsted appointed ceo
  • Allan Bach Pedersen stepped down as director
201410 changesmanagement 8 · ownership 1 · name 1
  • Thomas Voss appointed chair of the board
  • Per Olle Håkan Borgvall appointed board member
  • Hans Erik Lindeberg stepped down as board member
  • Søren Schøllhammer stepped down as chair of the board
  • Allan Bach Pedersen appointed board member
  • Allan Bach Pedersen appointed director
  • Luigi Ferrando stepped down as ceo
  • Luigi Ferrando stepped down as board member
  • LOUIS POULSEN HOLDING A/S registered as owner (100%)
  • Name changed from LOUIS POULSEN LIGHTING A/S to LOUIS POULSEN A/S
20137 changesmanagement 7
  • Luigi Ferrando appointed ceo
  • Luigi Ferrando appointed board member
  • Lorenzo Targetti stepped down as board member
  • Lorenzo Targetti stepped down as ceo
  • Martin Uno Mogensen appointed deputy board member
  • Conny Thrane appointed deputy board member
  • Lars Stilling Pedersen appointed board member
20124 changesmanagement 4
  • Lorenzo Targetti appointed board member
  • Lorenzo Targetti appointed ceo
  • Enrico Basso stepped down as ceo
  • Enrico Basso stepped down as board member
20111 changemanagement 1
  • Steffen Kjeld Thomsen stepped down as board member
20104 changesmanagement 4
  • Enrico Basso appointed board member
  • Lorenzo Targetti stepped down as board member
  • Enrico Basso appointed ceo
  • Lorenzo Targetti stepped down as ceo
20095 changesmanagement 5
  • Lorenzo Targetti appointed board member
  • Steffen Kjeld Thomsen appointed board member
  • Morten Windfeldt Jensen stepped down as board member
  • Kurt Hedegaard Carstensen stepped down as board member
  • Astrid Sine Attermann stepped down as deputy board member
20088 changesmanagement 6 · merger 1 · industry 1
  • Hans Erik Lindeberg appointed board member
  • Peter Thorsen stepped down as board member
  • Kurt Hedegaard Carstensen stepped down as chief financial officer
  • Morten Agerby Schultz stepped down as deputy board member
  • Merger registered in CVR
  • Lorenzo Targetti appointed ceo
  • Peter Thorsen stepped down as ceo
  • Industry changed to Manufacture of electric lighting equipment (274000)
200710 changesmanagement 10
  • Kurt Hedegaard Carstensen appointed chief financial officer
  • Søren Schøllhammer appointed chair of the board
  • Morten Windfeldt Jensen appointed board member
  • Kurt Hedegaard Carstensen appointed board member
  • Peter Thorsen appointed board member
  • Gert Eg stepped down as chair of the board
  • Viggo Nedergaard Jensen stepped down as board member
  • Kurt Grüner Vacker appointed board member
  • Astrid Sine Attermann appointed deputy board member
  • Morten Agerby Schultz appointed deputy board member
20063 changesaddress 1 · management 2
  • Moved to Gammel Strand 28, 1202 København K
  • Gert Eg appointed chair of the board
  • Viggo Nedergaard Jensen appointed board member
20053 changesmanagement 2 · capital 1
  • Peter Thorsen appointed ceo
  • Share capital changed from 51,000,000 DKK to 60,000,000 DKK
  • Hans Ejler Rasmussen stepped down as board member
20031 changemanagement 1
  • Hans Ejler Rasmussen appointed board member
20013 changesaddress 1 · capital 2
  • Moved to Nyhavn 11, 1051 København K
  • Share capital changed from 50,000,000 DKK to 51,000,000 DKK
  • Share capital changed from 40,000,000 DKK to 50,000,000 DKK
20002 changesindustry 1 · name 1
  • Industry changed to Fremstilling af belysningsarmaturer mv. (315000)
  • Name changed from SKANDIA HAVEMANN'S EL A/S to LOUIS POULSEN LIGHTING A/S
19941 changename 1
  • Name changed from SKANDIA HAVEMANN^S EL A/S to SKANDIA HAVEMANN'S EL A/S
19901 changename 1
  • Name changed from ASEA SKANDIA HAVEMANNS EL A/S to SKANDIA HAVEMANN^S EL A/S
19581 changefounded 1
  • Registered as ASEA SKANDIA HAVEMANNS EL A/S

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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 23/10/2026.

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