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The Lab A/S

Public limited companyCVR 26160286København ØActive

The Lab A/S is a public limited company, based in København Ø, active in photographic activities, founded in 2001. Net profit fell 34% from 2024 to 2025, ending at DKK 2.2m. Measured by gross profit, it ranks no. 1 of 102 companies in the industry in the database. With 79 employees, the company is about 40 times larger than the industry median.

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Key figures · financial year 2025

Gross profitDKK 35.2m+5.3% vs. 2024
Net profitDKK 2.2m−33.9% vs. 2024
EquityDKK 15.5m+8.7% vs. 2024
Employees79latest month from CVR

What has changed

calculated from recorded figures and dates

Financials: 2025 against 2024

  • Gross profit rose 5% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 35.2m.
  • Net profit fell 34% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 2.2m.
  • Equity rose 9% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 15.5m.

Employees

  • 6 fewer employees than a year earlier: 79 (08/2026) against 85 (08/2025).

Management and owners, last 24 months

  • New in management: Aksel Emil Flataukan Schrøder Eskesen (board member, 06/10/2026) and Josephine Winther-Poupinel (chair of the board, 06/10/2026).
  • Stepped down: Hana Kukulina Meyer Hellum (board member, 06/10/2026) and Jørgen Meyer Hellum (chair of the board, 06/10/2026).
  • New owners registered: EE81 Holding ApS (15/09/2026).
  • No longer registered as owner: JHellum81 Holding ApS (15/09/2026) and EE81 Holding ApS (14/09/2026).

Registrations, last 24 months

  • 01/01/2025: Industry changed to Photographic activities (742000)

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 2mDKK 4mDKK 6mDKK 8mDKK 10mDKK 12mDKK 14mDKK 16m202020212022202320242025
EquityNet profit
Financial figures for The Lab A/S
202020212022202320242025Change
Revenuenot statednot statednot statednot statednot statednot stated–
Gross profit17,54526,53526,69028,88533,42535,185+5.3%
Operating profit (EBIT)2,3187,6505,8807,2974,4293,172−28.4%
Profit before tax1,9718,3705,6837,1364,3422,870−33.9%
Net profit1,4736,7014,4355,5673,3792,232−33.9%
Total assets21,03927,06629,06927,79225,50925,985+1.9%
Equity8,84412,54512,27913,84714,22515,457+8.7%
Liabilities11,24613,59415,94913,12710,5919,910−6.4%
Cash and cash equivalents5,9134,3626,9841582,6932,795+3.8%
Average number of employees283434375028−44%

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. Revenue is not stated for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025: smaller companies may omit it, and we do not derive it from other figures.

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DKK 0DKK 5mDKK 10mDKK 15mDKK 20mDKK 25mDKK 30mDKK 35m202020212022202320242025
Gross profitMedian, the industry (102 companies)

Signals from the financial statements

calculated from the 2025 figures

  • Fewer employees

    The number of employees fell 44% from 50 in 2024 to 28 in 2025.

    How is this calculated?

    The number of employees according to the annual report has fallen by at least 25%, and was at least 10 the year before.

  • 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 The Lab A/S
Financial yearPeriodPublishedFigures forDocuments
202501/01/2025 – 31/12/202526/06/2026The companyPDF not statedXBRL
202401/01/2024 – 31/12/202422/05/2025The companyPDFXBRL
202301/01/2023 – 31/12/202326/06/2024The companyPDFXBRL
202201/01/2022 – 31/12/202220/06/2023The companyPDFXBRL
202101/01/2021 – 31/12/202130/06/2022The companyPDFXBRL
202001/01/2020 – 31/12/202029/06/2021The companyPDFXBRL

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Employees

monthly figures from CVR
02040608010009/2310/2311/2312/2301/2402/2403/2404/2405/2406/2407/2408/2409/2410/2411/2412/2401/2502/2503/2504/2505/2506/2507/2508/2509/2510/2511/2512/2501/2602/2603/2604/2605/2606/2607/2608/26
Employees

Position in the industry

102 companies in the database

Comparison with the other companies in photographic activities based on the latest financial year.

Gross profitDKK 35.2mNo. 1 of 102
Better than 100% of the companies in the industry
EquityDKK 15.5mNo. 4 of 102
Better than 97% of the companies in the industry
Number of employees79No. 2 of 102
Better than 99% of the companies in the industry

Industry median: gross profit DKK 1.3m, net profit DKK 76,496, equity DKK 318k, 2 employees.

DKK 100kDKK 433kDKK 1.9mDKK 8.1mDKK 21.6mHere
Distribution of gross profit for 97 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. 2,507of 4,412
Better than 43%
No. 2,486of 4,466
Better than 44%
Companies that are between 15 and 29 years old24,910 companies in the comparison
No. 2,035of 24,791
Better than 92%
No. 5,183of 24,909
Better than 79%
All companies of type A/S18,025 companies in the comparison
No. 3,898of 17,786
Better than 78%
No. 7,116of 18,024
Better than 61%

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

Photographic activities
Gross profit
  1. The Lab A/SDKK 35.2m
  2. Yuri Arcurs Photography ApSDKK 28.4m
  3. Illux A/SDKK 20.8m
Net profit
  1. The Lab A/SDKK 2.2m
  2. Yuri Arcurs Photography ApSDKK 11.4m
  3. Illux A/SDKK 3.2m
Equity
  1. The Lab A/SDKK 15.5m
  2. Yuri Arcurs Photography ApSDKK 18.4m
  3. Illux A/SDKK 15.5m
Employees
  1. The Lab A/S79
  2. Yuri Arcurs Photography ApS4
  3. Illux A/S48

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Owners and group

from the Public Ownership Register
Owners
  • EE81 Holding ApS100%
The Lab A/S

Management

4 active registrations

Executive management

Executive management at The Lab A/S
NameRoleAppointed
Emil EskesenDirector22/12/2022

Board of directors

Board of directors at The Lab A/S
NameRoleAppointed
Emil EskesenBoard member22/12/2022
Aksel Emil Flataukan Schrøder EskesenBoard member06/10/2026
Josephine Winther-PoupinelChair of the board06/10/2026
Founders
Asx 9667 ApS
Former management (13)
Former management at The Lab A/S
NameRoleAppointedResigned
Steen SchierbeckDirector01/08/200111/01/2002
Egon Kristensen GadeDirector11/01/200225/04/2007
Emil EskesenDirector06/12/200516/04/2012
Shay GabayDirector06/12/200525/06/2020
Emil EskesenChair of the board16/04/201221/12/2022
Marianne Flataukan SchrøderBoard member16/04/201202/07/2019
Merete Daugaard GabayBoard member16/04/201216/08/2018
Tamara GabayBoard member16/08/201802/07/2019
Shay GabayBoard member02/07/201925/06/2020
Jørgen Meyer HellumBoard member02/07/201921/12/2022
Jørgen Meyer HellumDirector25/06/202022/12/2022
Hana Kukulina Meyer HellumBoard member25/06/202006/10/2026
Jørgen Meyer HellumChair of the board22/12/202206/10/2026

Signing rule: Selskabet tegnes af direktøren alene

Address and production units

1 active production units

Vermundsgade 40B
2100 København Ø

København Municipality · Postcode 2100

Other companies at the address (2)

Production units
Production unitAddressEmployeesP number
THE LAB A/SVermundsgade 40B, 2100 København Ø791008582013

Purpose

Selskabets formål er at drive fotolaboratorievirksomhed og studieudlejning.

The purpose is quoted from the register in Danish.

Changes year by year

63 registered events
20268 changesmanagement 4 · ownership 3 · accounts 1
  • Aksel Emil Flataukan Schrøder Eskesen appointed board member
  • Josephine Winther-Poupinel appointed chair of the board
  • Jørgen Meyer Hellum stepped down as chair of the board
  • Hana Kukulina Meyer Hellum stepped down as board member
  • EE81 Holding ApS registered as owner (100%)
  • JHellum81 Holding ApS is no longer registered as owner
  • EE81 Holding ApS is no longer registered as owner
  • Annual report for 2025 published
20252 changesaccounts 1 · industry 1
  • Annual report for 2024 published
  • Industry changed to Photographic activities (742000)
20241 changeaccounts 1
  • Annual report for 2023 published
20231 changeaccounts 1
  • Annual report for 2022 published
202210 changesmanagement 6 · ownership 3 · accounts 1
  • Emil Eskesen appointed director
  • Emil Eskesen appointed board member
  • Jørgen Meyer Hellum appointed chair of the board
  • Jørgen Meyer Hellum stepped down as director
  • Jørgen Meyer Hellum stepped down as board member
  • Emil Eskesen stepped down as chair of the board
  • EE81 Holding ApS registered as owner (66.67%)
  • JHellum81 Holding ApS registered as owner (20%)
  • EE81 Holding ApS is no longer registered as owner
  • Annual report for 2021 published
20211 changeaccounts 1
  • Annual report for 2020 published
202010 changesownership 6 · management 4
  • EE81 Holding ApS registered as owner (100%)
  • SG 2015 ApS is no longer registered as owner
  • EE81 Holding ApS is no longer registered as owner
  • Jørgen Meyer Hellum appointed director
  • Hana Kukulina Meyer Hellum appointed board member
  • Shay Gabay stepped down as board member
  • Shay Gabay stepped down as director
  • EE81 Holding ApS registered as owner (50%)
  • JHellum81 Holding ApS is no longer registered as owner
  • EEJ1981 ApS is no longer registered as owner
20194 changesmanagement 4
  • Shay Gabay appointed board member
  • Jørgen Meyer Hellum appointed board member
  • Tamara Gabay stepped down as board member
  • Marianne Flataukan Schrøder stepped down as board member
20187 changesownership 5 · management 2
  • JHellum81 Holding ApS registered as owner (20%)
  • EEJ1981 ApS registered as owner (33.33%)
  • SG 2015 ApS registered as owner (33.33%)
  • SG 2015 ApS is no longer registered as owner
  • EEJ1981 ApS is no longer registered as owner
  • Tamara Gabay appointed board member
  • Merete Daugaard Gabay stepped down as board member
20152 changesownership 2
  • SG 2015 ApS registered as owner (50%)
  • EEJ1981 ApS registered as owner (50%)
20126 changesname 1 · capital 1 · management 4
  • Name changed from THE LAB ApS to THE LAB A/S
  • Share capital changed from 125,000 DKK to 500,000 DKK
  • Merete Daugaard Gabay appointed board member
  • Marianne Flataukan Schrøder appointed board member
  • Emil Eskesen appointed chair of the board
  • Emil Eskesen stepped down as director
20081 changeindustry 1
  • Industry changed to Photographic activities (742000)
20071 changemanagement 1
  • Egon Kristensen Gade stepped down as director
20052 changesmanagement 2
  • Emil Eskesen appointed director
  • Shay Gabay appointed director
20025 changesaddress 2 · name 1 · management 2
  • Moved to Vermundsgade 40B, 2100 København Ø
  • Name changed from SCSK 5894 ApS to THE LAB ApS
  • Moved to Vermundsgade 40, 2100 København Ø
  • Egon Kristensen Gade appointed director
  • Steen Schierbeck stepped down as director
20012 changesfounded 1 · management 1
  • Registered as SCSK 5894 ApS
  • Steen Schierbeck appointed director

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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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