Novozymes A/S

Public limited companyCVR 10007127BagsværdActive

Novozymes A/S is a public limited company, based in Bagsværd, active in manufacture of other organic basic chemicals, founded in 2000. Net profit rose 91% from 2024 to 2025, ending at DKK 583.6m. Operations are spread over 12 production units in 7 towns. With 3,508 employees, the company is about 292 times larger than the industry median.

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Key figures · financial year 2025

RevenueDKK 4.2bn+8.5% vs. 2024
Net profitDKK 583.6m+90.8% vs. 2024
EquityDKK 10.9bn−2.9% vs. 2024
Employees3,508latest month from CVR

What has changed

calculated from recorded figures and dates

Financials: 2025 against 2024

  • Gross profit rose 24% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 2.2bn.
  • Revenue rose 8% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 4.2bn.
  • Net profit rose 91% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 583.6m.
  • Equity fell 3% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 10.9bn.

Employees

  • 237 more employees than a year earlier: 3,508 (08/2026) against 3,271 (08/2025).

Management and owners, last 24 months

  • New in management: Mikael Barfred (deputy board member, 03/04/2025), Lars Bo Køppler (board member, 03/04/2025) and Heine Dalsgaard (deputy chair, 03/04/2025) (+6).
  • Stepped down: Niels Mortensen (deputy board member, 03/04/2025), Anders Hentze Knudsen (board member, 03/04/2025) and Heine Dalsgaard (board member, 02/04/2025) (+7).
  • New owners registered: BlackRock Inc (21/11/2024), BlackRock Inc (16/06/2025) and BlackRock Inc (16/07/2025).
  • No longer registered as owner: BlackRock Inc (11/11/2024), BlackRock Inc (25/11/2024) and BlackRock Inc (19/06/2025) (+1).

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 2016–2025 · amounts in DKK thousand

Equity and net profit

DKK 0DKK 2bnDKK 4bnDKK 6bnDKK 8bnDKK 10bnDKK 12bnDKK 14bn2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
EquityNet profit
Financial figures for Novozymes A/S
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025Change
Revenue14,142,00014,531,00014,390,00014,374,00014,012,00014,951,00017,553,00017,899,0003,833,5004,157,600+8.5%
Gross profit8,126,0008,413,0008,255,0007,954,0007,853,0008,623,0009,577,0009,722,0001,809,5002,241,500+23.9%
Operating profit (EBIT)3,946,0004,047,0004,070,0004,039,0003,652,0004,007,0004,561,0003,976,000501,000816,700+63%
Profit before tax3,881,0003,876,0003,936,0003,799,0003,521,0003,924,0004,556,0003,909,000417,100743,400+78.2%
Net profit3,050,0003,120,0003,227,0003,155,0002,826,0003,145,0003,686,0003,039,000305,800583,600+90.8%
Total assets18,659,00018,373,00019,697,00020,437,00020,510,00024,767,00027,983,00028,391,00015,195,60016,349,100+7.6%
Equity11,745,00011,267,00011,438,00011,480,00011,244,00012,206,00014,228,00014,351,00011,176,00010,855,200−2.9%
Liabilities6,914,0007,106,0008,259,0008,957,0009,266,00012,561,00013,755,00014,040,0004,019,6005,493,900+36.7%
Cash and cash equivalents805,000363,000723,000711,0001,181,000963,0001,041,0001,116,000280,000275,300−1.7%

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 2bnDKK 4bnDKK 6bnDKK 8bnDKK 10bn2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Gross profitMedian, the industry (9 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

10 financial years
Annual reports for Novozymes A/S
Financial yearPeriodPublishedFigures forDocuments
202501/01/2025 – 31/12/202527/03/2026The companyPDF not statedXBRL
202401/01/2024 – 31/12/202409/04/2025The companyPDF not statedXBRL
202301/01/2023 – 31/12/202314/05/2024The companyPDF not statedXBRL
202201/01/2022 – 31/12/202220/03/2023The companyPDF not statedXBRL
202101/01/2021 – 31/12/202109/05/2022The companyPDF not statedXBRL
202001/01/2020 – 31/12/202029/04/2021The companyPDF not statedXBRL
201901/01/2019 – 31/12/201908/04/2020The companyPDFXBRL
201801/01/2018 – 31/12/201813/03/2019The companyPDFXBRL
201701/01/2017 – 31/12/201721/03/2018The companyPDFXBRL
201601/01/2016 – 31/12/201601/03/2017The companyPDFXBRL

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Employees

monthly figures from CVR
05001,0001,5002,0002,5003,0003,50009/2310/2311/2312/2301/2402/2403/2404/2405/2406/2407/2408/2409/2410/2411/2412/2401/2502/2503/2504/2505/2506/2507/2508/2509/2510/2511/2512/2501/2602/2603/2604/2605/2606/2607/2608/26
Employees

Position in the industry

9 companies in the database

Comparison with the other companies in manufacture of other organic basic chemicals based on the latest financial year.

Gross profitDKK 2.2bnNo. 1 of 9
Better than 100% of the companies in the industry
EquityDKK 10.9bnNo. 1 of 9
Better than 100% of the companies in the industry
Number of employees3,508No. 1 of 9
Better than 100% of the companies in the industry

Industry median: gross profit DKK 7.9m, net profit DKK 1.2m, equity DKK 7.3m, 12 employees.

Compared with similar companies

size, age and company form
Rank among similar companies
GroupGross profitEquity
Companies with 1,000 employees or more177 companies in the comparison
No. 32of 147
Better than 79%
No. 18of 177
Better than 90%
Companies that are between 15 and 29 years old24,910 companies in the comparison
No. 24of 24,791
Better than 100%
No. 22of 24,909
Better than 100%
All companies of type A/S18,025 companies in the comparison
No. 54of 17,786
Better than 100%
No. 57of 18,024
Better than 100%

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 other organic basic chemicals
Gross profit
  1. Novozymes A/SDKK 2.2bn
  2. Syntese A/SDKK 159m
  3. Vertanical Denmark ApSDKK 33.7m
Net profit
  1. Novozymes A/SDKK 583.6m
  2. Syntese A/SDKK 8.7m
  3. Vertanical Denmark ApSDKK 1.2m
Equity
  1. Novozymes A/SDKK 10.9bn
  2. Syntese A/SDKK 84.6m
  3. Vertanical Denmark ApSDKK 5.2m
Employees
  1. Novozymes A/S3,508
  2. Syntese A/S156
  3. Vertanical Denmark ApS23

Latest financial year per company. Choose up to three companies from the largest in the industry.

Owners and group

from the Public Ownership Register

Subsidiaries are shown only if they are in the database.

Management

17 active registrations

Executive management

Executive management at Novozymes A/S
NameRoleAppointed
Ester Baiget ArnauCEO01/02/2020
Rainer Chapour LehmannDirector01/11/2023

Board of directors

Board of directors at Novozymes A/S
NameRoleAppointed
Kasim KutayBoard member22/02/2017
Preben NielsenBoard member11/03/2021
Morten Otto Alexander SommerBoard member16/03/2022
Cornelis de JongChair of the board02/03/2023
Lise KaaeBoard member04/03/2024
Kevin Michael LaneBoard member04/03/2024
Kim Narelle StrattonBoard member04/03/2024
Mikael BarfredDeputy board member03/04/2025
Lars Bo KøpplerBoard member03/04/2025
Heine DalsgaardDeputy chair03/04/2025
Heidi GeltDeputy board member03/04/2025
Robert Nøddeskov JensenBoard member03/04/2025
Frederikke Rose SpennerBoard member03/04/2025
Ida Lam VirklundDeputy board member03/04/2025
Monila Amar KothariBoard member03/04/2025
Former management (55)
Former management at Novozymes A/S
NameRoleAppointedResigned
Walther ThygesenBoard member13/11/200002/03/2011
Kurt Anker NielsenDeputy chair13/11/200026/02/2014
Steen RiisgaardCEO13/11/200001/04/2013
Hans Kristian WerdelinBoard member13/11/200031/10/2008
Per FalholtDirector13/11/200008/02/2016
Henrik GürtlerChair of the board13/11/200022/02/2017
Arne Wintherhalter SchmidtDirector13/11/200001/10/2007
Per Artur Fredrik MånssonDirector13/11/200022/11/2006
Paul Petter AasBoard member13/11/200029/02/2012
Jerker HartwallBoard member13/11/200002/03/2011
Jens NielsenDeputy board member21/03/200116/03/2005
Nomi Elise SkovgaardDeputy board member21/03/200131/10/2008
Ulla MorinBoard member21/03/200128/02/2013
Arne HansenBoard member21/03/200104/03/2009
Thomas SandalBoard member21/03/200101/09/2001
Søren Henrik JepsenBoard member16/03/200528/02/2013
Preben Kurt RasmussenDeputy board member16/03/200504/03/2009
Benny Dalgaard LoftDirector06/12/200610/08/2017
Carl Erik Mathias UhlénBoard member08/03/200716/03/2022
Thomas Geza Solyom NagyDirector01/10/200708/02/2016
Thomas VidebækDirector01/10/200731/03/2021
Marianne Vind PetersenDeputy board member04/03/200928/02/2013
Michael MunksøBoard member04/03/200901/12/2010
Jørgen Buhl RasmussenBoard member02/03/201123/02/2016
Lena Marie OlvingBoard member02/03/201124/02/2016
Niels MortensenDeputy board member28/02/201303/04/2025
Lars Bo KøpplerBoard member28/02/201311/03/2021
Niels Axel Stokholm BankeDeputy board member28/02/201322/02/2017
Anne Elme BreumDeputy board member28/02/201310/03/2021
Anders Hentze KnudsenBoard member28/02/201303/04/2025
Lena Bech HolskovBoard member28/02/201310/03/2021
Peder Holk NielsenCEO01/04/201301/02/2020
Andrew Patrick FordyceDirector01/04/201308/02/2016
Agnete Raaschou-NielsenDeputy chair26/02/201423/02/2016
Lars GreenBoard member26/02/201409/08/2019
Heinz-Jürgen BertramBoard member25/02/201508/06/2017
Jørgen Buhl RasmussenDeputy chair24/02/201621/02/2017
Agnete Raaschou-NielsenBoard member24/02/201621/02/2017
Jørgen Buhl RasmussenChair of the board22/02/201702/03/2023
Agnete Raaschou-NielsenDeputy chair22/02/201726/02/2020
Preben NielsenDeputy board member22/02/201710/03/2021
Kim Narelle StrattonBoard member22/02/201701/03/2023
Prisca Havranek-KosicekDirector01/02/201808/08/2019
Patricia MalarkeyBoard member13/03/201831/01/2019
Lars GreenDirector01/09/201901/11/2023
Heine DalsgaardBoard member26/02/202002/04/2025
Cornelis de JongDeputy chair26/02/202001/03/2023
Sharon JamesBoard member26/02/202031/12/2024
Anne Elme BreumBoard member11/03/202101/11/2024
Lena Bech HolskovDeputy board member11/03/202131/10/2024
Jens ØbroBoard member11/03/202103/04/2025
Jannik Bo RiisDeputy board member11/03/202103/04/2025
Kim Narelle StrattonDeputy chair02/03/202303/03/2024
Jesper BrandgaardDeputy chair04/03/202403/04/2025
Lena Bech HolskovBoard member01/11/202403/04/2025

Signing rule: Selskabet tegnes af to anmeldte direktører i forening eller af en anmeldt direktør sammen med bestyrelsens formand eller næstformand eller af den samlede bestyrelse.

Address and production units

12 active production units
Production units
Production unitAddressEmployeesP number
Novozymes A/SBiologiens Vej 2, 2800 Kongens Lyngby1,1721024379384
NOVOZYMES A/SKrogshøjvej 36, 2880 Bagsværd9241007675646
NOVOZYMES A/SHallas Alle 1, 4400 Kalundborg8301007675670
NOVOZYMES A/SBøge Alle 10, 2970 Hørsholm3421030608492
NOVOZYMES A/SHillerødgade 42, 2200 København N1911007675476
NOVOZYMES A/SJernholmen 1, 2650 Hvidovre121031232534
NOVOZYMES A/SKogle Alle 6, 2970 Hørsholm111031780345
NOVOZYMES A/SLundtoftegårdsvej 95, 2800 Kongens Lyngby81031611969
NOVOZYMES A/SAgern Alle 24, st, 2970 Hørsholm51031780353
NOVOZYMES A/SJuelsmindevej 5, 4400 Kalundborg31031780361
NOVOZYMES A/SSøndre Ringvej 22, 4000 Roskilde11031800397
Novozymes HavnearealØstre Havnevej 12, 4400 Kalundborg01020962662

Purpose

Selskabets formål er at drive forskning, udvikling, produktion og handel med biologiske løsninger, herunder enzymer, mikroorganismer og andre bioteknologiske processer og produkter samt drive virksomhed, der efter bestyrelsens nærmere bestemmelse står i forbindelse hermed. Selskabet tilstræber at drive sin virksomhed på bæredygtig og ansvarlig vis, herunder i økonomisk, miljømæssig og social henseende.

The purpose is quoted from the register in Danish.

Changes year by year

147 registered events
20261 changeaccounts 1
  • Annual report for 2025 published
202520 changesownership 4 · accounts 1 · management 15
  • BlackRock Inc is no longer registered as owner
  • BlackRock Inc registered as owner (5%)
  • BlackRock Inc is no longer registered as owner
  • BlackRock Inc registered as owner (5%)
  • Annual report for 2024 published
  • Frederikke Rose Spenner appointed board member
  • Robert Nøddeskov Jensen appointed board member
  • Heidi Gelt appointed deputy board member
  • Heine Dalsgaard appointed deputy chair
  • Lars Bo Køppler appointed board member
  • Mikael Barfred appointed deputy board member
  • Ida Lam Virklund appointed deputy board member
  • Monila Amar Kothari appointed board member
  • Lena Bech Holskov stepped down as board member
  • Jesper Brandgaard stepped down as deputy chair
  • Jannik Bo Riis stepped down as deputy board member
  • Jens Øbro stepped down as board member
  • Niels Mortensen stepped down as deputy board member
  • Anders Hentze Knudsen stepped down as board member
  • Heine Dalsgaard stepped down as board member
202424 changesmanagement 9 · ownership 14 · accounts 1
  • Sharon James stepped down as board member
  • BlackRock Inc is no longer registered as owner
  • BlackRock Inc registered as owner (5%)
  • BlackRock Inc is no longer registered as owner
  • Lena Bech Holskov appointed board member
  • Anne Elme Breum stepped down as board member
  • Lena Bech Holskov stepped down as deputy board member
  • BlackRock Inc registered as owner (5%)
  • BlackRock Inc is no longer registered as owner
  • BlackRock Inc registered as owner (5%)
  • BlackRock Inc is no longer registered as owner
  • BlackRock Inc registered as owner (5%)
  • BlackRock Inc is no longer registered as owner
  • BlackRock Inc registered as owner (5%)
  • Novo Holdings A/S registered as owner (25%)
  • Novo Holdings A/S is no longer registered as owner
  • Annual report for 2023 published
  • Lise Kaae appointed board member
  • Jesper Brandgaard appointed deputy chair
  • Kim Narelle Stratton appointed board member
  • Kevin Michael Lane appointed board member
  • Kim Narelle Stratton stepped down as deputy chair
  • Novo Holdings A/S registered as owner (20%)
  • Novo Holdings A/S is no longer registered as owner
20239 changesmanagement 7 · capital 1 · accounts 1
  • Rainer Chapour Lehmann appointed director
  • Lars Green stepped down as director
  • Share capital changed from 562,000,000 DKK to 936,597,292 DKK
  • Annual report for 2022 published
  • Cornelis de Jong appointed chair of the board
  • Kim Narelle Stratton appointed deputy chair
  • Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen stepped down as chair of the board
  • Cornelis de Jong stepped down as deputy chair
  • Kim Narelle Stratton stepped down as board member
20224 changesaccounts 1 · capital 1 · management 2
  • Annual report for 2021 published
  • Share capital changed from 564,000,000 DKK to 562,000,000 DKK
  • Morten Otto Alexander Sommer appointed board member
  • Carl Erik Mathias Uhlén stepped down as board member
202112 changesaccounts 1 · management 10 · capital 1
  • Annual report for 2020 published
  • Thomas Videbæk stepped down as director
  • Share capital changed from 570,000,000 DKK to 564,000,000 DKK
  • Jannik Bo Riis appointed deputy board member
  • Lena Bech Holskov appointed deputy board member
  • Preben Nielsen appointed board member
  • Anne Elme Breum appointed board member
  • Jens Øbro appointed board member
  • Lars Bo Køppler stepped down as board member
  • Preben Nielsen stepped down as deputy board member
  • Lena Bech Holskov stepped down as board member
  • Anne Elme Breum stepped down as deputy board member
20208 changesaccounts 1 · capital 1 · management 6
  • Annual report for 2019 published
  • Share capital changed from 582,000,000 DKK to 570,000,000 DKK
  • Sharon James appointed board member
  • Heine Dalsgaard appointed board member
  • Cornelis de Jong appointed deputy chair
  • Agnete Raaschou-Nielsen stepped down as deputy chair
  • Ester Baiget Arnau appointed ceo
  • Peder Holk Nielsen stepped down as ceo
20196 changesmanagement 4 · accounts 1 · capital 1
  • Lars Green appointed director
  • Lars Green stepped down as board member
  • Prisca Havranek-Kosicek stepped down as director
  • Annual report for 2018 published
  • Share capital changed from 594,000,000 DKK to 582,000,000 DKK
  • Patricia Malarkey stepped down as board member
20184 changesaccounts 1 · capital 1 · management 2
  • Annual report for 2017 published
  • Share capital changed from 610,000,000 DKK to 594,000,000 DKK
  • Patricia Malarkey appointed board member
  • Prisca Havranek-Kosicek appointed director
201712 changesmanagement 10 · accounts 1 · capital 1
  • Benny Dalgaard Loft stepped down as director
  • Heinz-Jürgen Bertram stepped down as board member
  • Annual report for 2016 published
  • Share capital changed from 620,000,000 DKK to 610,000,000 DKK
  • Agnete Raaschou-Nielsen appointed deputy chair
  • Kasim Kutay appointed board member
  • Kim Narelle Stratton appointed board member
  • Preben Nielsen appointed deputy board member
  • Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen appointed chair of the board
  • Niels Axel Stokholm Banke stepped down as deputy board member
  • Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen stepped down as deputy chair
  • Agnete Raaschou-Nielsen stepped down as board member
20168 changescapital 1 · management 7
  • Share capital changed from 626,000,000 DKK to 620,000,000 DKK
  • Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen appointed deputy chair
  • Agnete Raaschou-Nielsen appointed board member
  • Lena Marie Olving stepped down as board member
  • Agnete Raaschou-Nielsen stepped down as deputy chair
  • Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen stepped down as board member
  • Andrew Patrick Fordyce stepped down as director
  • Thomas Geza Solyom Nagy stepped down as director
20153 changesownership 1 · capital 1 · management 1
  • Novo Holdings A/S registered as owner (25%)
  • Share capital changed from 639,400,000 DKK to 626,000,000 DKK
  • Heinz-Jürgen Bertram appointed board member
20143 changesmerger 1 · management 2
  • Merger registered in CVR
  • Lars Green appointed board member
  • Agnete Raaschou-Nielsen appointed deputy chair
201312 changesmanagement 11 · capital 1
  • Andrew Patrick Fordyce appointed director
  • Peder Holk Nielsen appointed ceo
  • Share capital changed from 650,000,000 DKK to 639,400,000 DKK
  • Niels Mortensen appointed deputy board member
  • Lars Bo Køppler appointed board member
  • Lena Bech Holskov appointed board member
  • Anders Hentze Knudsen appointed board member
  • Anne Elme Breum appointed deputy board member
  • Niels Axel Stokholm Banke appointed deputy board member
  • Marianne Vind Petersen stepped down as deputy board member
  • Søren Henrik Jepsen stepped down as board member
  • Ulla Morin stepped down as board member
20112 changesmanagement 2
  • Lena Marie Olving appointed board member
  • Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen appointed board member
20101 changemanagement 1
  • Michael Munksø stepped down as board member
20093 changesmanagement 3
  • Michael Munksø appointed board member
  • Marianne Vind Petersen appointed deputy board member
  • Preben Kurt Rasmussen stepped down as deputy board member
20081 changemanagement 1
  • Nomi Elise Skovgaard stepped down as deputy board member
20073 changesmanagement 3
  • Thomas Videbæk appointed director
  • Thomas Geza Solyom Nagy appointed director
  • Carl Erik Mathias Uhlén appointed board member
20062 changesmanagement 1 · capital 1
  • Benny Dalgaard Loft appointed director
  • Share capital changed from 696,000,000 DKK to 650,000,000 DKK
20054 changescapital 1 · management 3
  • Share capital changed from 726,000,000 DKK to 696,000,000 DKK
  • Preben Kurt Rasmussen appointed deputy board member
  • Søren Henrik Jepsen appointed board member
  • Jens Nielsen stepped down as deputy board member
20041 changecapital 1
  • Share capital changed from 754,388,320 DKK to 726,000,000 DKK
20013 changesmanagement 3
  • Ulla Morin appointed board member
  • Nomi Elise Skovgaard appointed deputy board member
  • Jens Nielsen appointed deputy board member
20001 changefounded 1
  • Registered as NOVOZYMES 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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