Wilhelmsen Ships Service A/S

Public limited companyCVR 30766016TaastrupActive

Wilhelmsen Ships Service A/S is a public limited company, based in Taastrup, active in wholesale of other machinery and equipment, founded in 1970. Net profit fell 85% from 2024 to 2025, ending at DKK 2.8m. Gross profit is higher than that of 87% of the companies in the industry in the database. The company has existed for over 50 years.

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Key figures · financial year 2025

RevenueDKK 51.5m−21.8% vs. 2024
Net profitDKK 2.8m−85.2% vs. 2024
EquityDKK 35.2m+8.7% vs. 2024
Employees9latest month from CVR

What has changed

calculated from recorded figures and dates

Financials: 2025 against 2024

  • Gross profit fell 16% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 33.1m.
  • Revenue fell 22% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 51.5m.
  • Net profit fell 85% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 2.8m.
  • Equity rose 9% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 35.2m.

Employees

  • 9 fewer employees than a year earlier: 9 (08/2026) against 18 (08/2025).

Management and owners, last 24 months

  • New in management: Kristina Fougner Rø (board member, 24/02/2026) and Johannes Corneles Timmers (chair of the board, 24/02/2026).
  • Stepped down: Raimond Aloysisus Visser (chair of the board, 24/02/2026) and Siri Jacobsen (board member, 24/02/2026).

Registrations, last 24 months

  • 05/02/2025: Moved to Banestrøget 19, st. th, Høje Taastrup, 2630 Taastrup

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 5mDKK 10mDKK 15mDKK 20mDKK 25mDKK 30mDKK 35m202020212022202320242025
EquityNet profit
Financial figures for Wilhelmsen Ships Service A/S
202020212022202320242025Change
Revenue21,05420,62928,59135,14165,80651,486−21.8%
Gross profit11,42812,23915,47819,56439,25833,121−15.6%
Operating profit (EBIT)–––––4,977–
Profit before tax––––24,3003,677−84.9%
Net profit2,7043,0624,2015,53218,9482,808−85.2%
Total assets6,8087,1949,00211,69442,01739,143−6.8%
Equity5,3786,0107,4579,20932,34735,155+8.7%
Liabilities1,4301,1831,5462,4869,6703,988−58.8%
Cash and cash equivalents––––9,390157−98.3%
Average number of employees33441617+6.3%

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 5mDKK 10mDKK 15mDKK 20mDKK 25mDKK 30mDKK 35mDKK 40m202020212022202320242025
Gross profitMedian, the industry (1,000 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 Wilhelmsen Ships Service A/S
Financial yearPeriodPublishedFigures forDocuments
202501/01/2025 – 31/12/202506/07/2026The companyPDF not statedXBRL
202401/01/2024 – 31/12/202410/07/2025The companyPDFXBRL
202301/01/2023 – 31/12/202302/07/2024The companyPDFXBRL
202201/01/2022 – 31/12/202222/06/2023The companyPDFXBRL
202101/01/2021 – 31/12/202128/06/2022The companyPDFXBRL
202001/01/2020 – 31/12/202007/06/2021The companyPDFXBRL

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Employees

monthly figures from CVR
0510152009/2310/2311/2312/2301/2402/2403/2404/2405/2406/2407/2408/2409/2410/2411/2412/2401/2502/2503/2504/2505/2506/2507/2508/2509/2510/2511/2512/2501/2602/2603/2604/2605/2606/2607/2608/26
Employees

Position in the industry

1,000 companies in the database

Comparison with the other companies in wholesale of other machinery and equipment based on the latest financial year.

Gross profitDKK 33.1mNo. 131 of 1,000
Better than 87% of the companies in the industry
EquityDKK 35.2mNo. 129 of 1,000
Better than 87% of the companies in the industry
Number of employees9No. 232 of 1,000
Better than 77% of the companies in the industry

Industry median: gross profit DKK 6m, net profit DKK 772k, equity DKK 4.8m, 6 employees.

DKK 100kDKK 961kDKK 9.2mDKK 88.8mDKK 401.7mHere
Distribution of gross profit for 957 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 fewer than 20 employees69,967 companies in the comparison
No. 775of 69,742
Better than 99%
No. 3,993of 69,964
Better than 94%
Same industry and fewer than 20 employees769 companies in the comparison
No. 11of 769
Better than 99%
No. 33of 769
Better than 96%
Companies that are at least 30 years old10,276 companies in the comparison
No. 1,996of 10,152
Better than 80%
No. 2,513of 10,275
Better than 76%
All companies of type A/S18,025 companies in the comparison
No. 4,083of 17,786
Better than 77%
No. 4,491of 18,024
Better than 75%

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 other machinery and equipment
Gross profit
  1. Wilhelmsen Ships Service A/SDKK 33.1m
  2. HydraSpecma A/SDKK 854.1m
  3. Sanovo Technology A/SDKK 779.2m
Net profit
  1. Wilhelmsen Ships Service A/SDKK 2.8m
  2. HydraSpecma A/SDKK 142.1m
  3. Sanovo Technology A/SDKK 204.2m
Equity
  1. Wilhelmsen Ships Service A/SDKK 35.2m
  2. HydraSpecma A/SDKK 1.2bn
  3. Sanovo Technology A/SDKK 592.3m
Employees
  1. Wilhelmsen Ships Service A/S9
  2. HydraSpecma A/S365
  3. Sanovo Technology A/S216

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Owners and group

from the Public Ownership Register
Owners
  • Wilhelmsen Ships Service AS100%
Wilhelmsen Ships Service A/S

Management

4 active registrations

Executive management

Executive management at Wilhelmsen Ships Service A/S
NameRoleAppointed
Benjamin Juel KierkegaardCEO28/02/2024

Board of directors

Board of directors at Wilhelmsen Ships Service A/S
NameRoleAppointed
Jon-Terje BjørnvoldBoard member05/05/2016
Kristina Fougner RøBoard member24/02/2026
Johannes Corneles TimmersChair of the board24/02/2026
Former management (62)
Former management at Wilhelmsen Ships Service A/S
NameRoleAppointedResigned
Henrik StenbjerreBoard member08/09/197013/06/1991
Erhardt GramDeputy chair08/09/197020/09/1988
Christian Frederik Harboe WissumBoard member08/09/197005/07/1994
Preben Harton BlankensteinerCEO08/09/197020/09/1988
Carlo Peter PetersenBoard member08/09/197020/09/1988
Anders Hallen PedersenChair of the board08/09/197020/09/1988
Aage BækkeBoard member08/09/197013/06/1991
Peter Ove JensenBoard member08/09/197013/06/1991
Peter Steen GeweckeDeputy board member08/09/197013/06/1991
Ole BjarnsholtBoard member08/09/197013/06/1991
Hanne SimonsenDeputy board member08/09/197009/06/1995
Erik SecherBoard member08/09/197009/06/1995
Torben Ardal LevinsenBoard member08/09/197026/04/1993
Solveig Ferm PetersenBoard member08/09/197030/06/1999
Rolf Preben HansenBoard member08/09/197030/06/1999
Bente OldenburgDeputy board member08/09/197006/10/1997
Erik Busk ChristensenDeputy board member08/09/197006/10/1997
Aron KaplanDirector08/09/197018/05/1992
Søren Bach RahbekCEO08/09/197020/12/1991
Carl-Erik KortmanChair of the board08/09/197018/09/1989
Juha Veikko Olavi ToivolaBoard member08/09/197013/06/1991
Lars-Petter Berndt Leonard GodenheilmChair of the board08/09/197013/06/1991
Ajitinder SodhiChair of the board08/09/197005/07/1994
Gerhard LegaultBoard member08/09/197014/01/1993
Pierre RobitailleBoard member08/09/197005/07/1994
Øistein HansenChair of the board08/09/197009/06/1995
Rune FalstadBoard member08/09/197009/06/1995
Steinar Hennum JohnsenBoard member08/09/197006/10/1997
Anders Goran FranssonChair of the board08/09/197008/03/1996
Lasse David NergaardChair of the board08/09/197006/10/1997
Jørgen OxenbøllBoard member18/05/199206/10/1997
Jørgen OxenbøllDirector18/05/199206/10/1997
Helle Ove MogensenBoard member26/04/199309/06/1995
Niels Svend JensenBoard member06/10/199731/05/2002
Niels Svend JensenDirector06/10/199731/05/2002
Lars Victor HamborgBoard member06/10/199701/08/2001
Øyvind UdnessChair of the board06/10/199701/08/2001
Ole Martin RøineChair of the board02/08/200131/05/2002
Axel Kuno Ferdinand SchirrmacherBoard member02/08/200131/05/2002
David John TandyChair of the board01/06/200218/11/2005
Ove MyrvågBoard member01/06/200218/11/2005
Alan Gordon AshtonBoard member01/06/200231/05/2004
Tejs BeltovDirector01/08/200222/03/2011
Terje NygaardBoard member01/06/200418/11/2005
Thomas WilhelmsenChair of the board18/11/200528/12/2007
Olav EggesbøBoard member18/11/200515/03/2010
Knut EspegrenBoard member18/11/200528/12/2007
Eivind Askheim EriksenChair of the board28/12/200715/03/2010
Joanna Agnieszka KaletaBoard member28/12/200715/03/2010
Bergit KaasinBoard member15/03/201019/05/2014
Christer Carl Gustaf BondeChair of the board15/03/201019/05/2014
Per-Ola SimensenBoard member15/03/201015/09/2011
Per-Ole NorderhaugCEO22/03/201105/05/2016
Thorstein StrandBoard member15/09/201105/05/2016
Ivar Jostein OnsrudBoard member19/05/201431/07/2022
Ketil BrydøyChair of the board19/05/201409/06/2017
Inger-Lise JosefsenCEO05/05/201609/06/2017
Pia MelingCEO09/06/201701/09/2018
Raimond Aloysisus VisserChair of the board09/06/201724/02/2026
Claes Johan Stefen HorndalCEO01/09/201815/01/2020
Ida Elisabeth Lode NilsenCEO15/01/202028/02/2024
Siri JacobsenBoard member01/08/202224/02/2026

Signing rule: Selskabet tegnes af den administrerende direktør og bestyrelsens formand i forening eller af bestyrelsens formand og et bestyrelsesmedlem i forening

Address and production units

2 active production units

Banestrøget 19
2630 Taastrup

Høje-Taastrup Municipality · Postcode 2630

Production units
Production unitAddressEmployeesP number
Wilhelmsen Ships Service A/SBanestrøget 19, st. th, Høje Taastrup, 2630 Taastrup91001666555
WILHELMSEN SHIPS SERVICE A/SD Lauritzens Vej 15, 6700 Esbjerg21011656427

Purpose

Selskabets formål er at drive handel og industri

The purpose is quoted from the register in Danish.

Changes year by year

140 registered events
20265 changesaccounts 1 · management 4
  • Annual report for 2025 published
  • Johannes Corneles Timmers appointed chair of the board
  • Kristina Fougner Rø appointed board member
  • Siri Jacobsen stepped down as board member
  • Raimond Aloysisus Visser stepped down as chair of the board
20252 changesaccounts 1 · address 1
  • Annual report for 2024 published
  • Moved to Banestrøget 19, st. th, Høje Taastrup, 2630 Taastrup
20245 changesaccounts 1 · capital 1 · management 2 · merger 1
  • Annual report for 2023 published
  • Share capital changed from 2,000,000 DKK to 2,000,500 DKK
  • Benjamin Juel Kierkegaard appointed ceo
  • Ida Elisabeth Lode Nilsen stepped down as ceo
  • Merger registered in CVR
20231 changeaccounts 1
  • Annual report for 2022 published
20225 changesaddress 2 · management 2 · accounts 1
  • Moved to Amager Strandvej 390, 2770 Kastrup
  • Siri Jacobsen appointed board member
  • Ivar Jostein Onsrud stepped down as board member
  • Annual report for 2021 published
  • Moved to Amager Strandvej 390, 2770 Kastrup
20211 changeaccounts 1
  • Annual report for 2020 published
20203 changesaddress 1 · management 2
  • Moved to Strandvejen 60, 2900 Hellerup
  • Ida Elisabeth Lode Nilsen appointed ceo
  • Claes Johan Stefen Horndal stepped down as ceo
20182 changesmanagement 2
  • Claes Johan Stefen Horndal appointed ceo
  • Pia Meling stepped down as ceo
20174 changesmanagement 4
  • Pia Meling appointed ceo
  • Raimond Aloysisus Visser appointed chair of the board
  • Inger-Lise Josefsen stepped down as ceo
  • Ketil Brydøy stepped down as chair of the board
20165 changesaddress 1 · management 4
  • Moved to Arne Jacobsens Allé 16, 3, 2300 København S
  • Inger-Lise Josefsen appointed ceo
  • Jon-Terje Bjørnvold appointed board member
  • Thorstein Strand stepped down as board member
  • Per-Ole Norderhaug stepped down as ceo
20144 changesmanagement 4
  • Ketil Brydøy appointed chair of the board
  • Ivar Jostein Onsrud appointed board member
  • Christer Carl Gustaf Bonde stepped down as chair of the board
  • Bergit Kaasin stepped down as board member
20131 changeaddress 1
  • Moved to Dampfærgevej 3, st. tv, 2100 København Ø
20114 changesmanagement 4
  • Thorstein Strand appointed board member
  • Per-Ola Simensen stepped down as board member
  • Per-Ole Norderhaug appointed ceo
  • Tejs Beltov stepped down as director
20106 changesmanagement 6
  • Christer Carl Gustaf Bonde appointed chair of the board
  • Per-Ola Simensen appointed board member
  • Bergit Kaasin appointed board member
  • Joanna Agnieszka Kaleta stepped down as board member
  • Eivind Askheim Eriksen stepped down as chair of the board
  • Olav Eggesbø stepped down as board member
20083 changesaddress 1 · name 1 · industry 1
  • Moved to Avedøreholmen 46, 2650 Hvidovre
  • Name changed from UNITOR DENMARK A/S to WILHELMSEN SHIPS SERVICE A/S
  • Industry changed to Engroshandel med andre maskiner og andet udstyr (466900)
20074 changesmanagement 4
  • Joanna Agnieszka Kaleta appointed board member
  • Eivind Askheim Eriksen appointed chair of the board
  • Knut Espegren stepped down as board member
  • Thomas Wilhelmsen stepped down as chair of the board
20056 changesmanagement 6
  • Olav Eggesbø appointed board member
  • Knut Espegren appointed board member
  • Thomas Wilhelmsen appointed chair of the board
  • Terje Nygaard stepped down as board member
  • Ove Myrvåg stepped down as board member
  • David John Tandy stepped down as chair of the board
20042 changesmanagement 2
  • Terje Nygaard appointed board member
  • Alan Gordon Ashton stepped down as board member
20028 changesmanagement 8
  • Tejs Beltov appointed director
  • Ove Myrvåg appointed board member
  • Alan Gordon Ashton appointed board member
  • David John Tandy appointed chair of the board
  • Axel Kuno Ferdinand Schirrmacher stepped down as board member
  • Ole Martin Røine stepped down as chair of the board
  • Niels Svend Jensen stepped down as board member
  • Niels Svend Jensen stepped down as director
20014 changesmanagement 4
  • Axel Kuno Ferdinand Schirrmacher appointed board member
  • Ole Martin Røine appointed chair of the board
  • Lars Victor Hamborg stepped down as board member
  • Øyvind Udness stepped down as chair of the board
20001 changeindustry 1
  • Industry changed to Engroshandel med andre maskiner, udstyr og tilbehør (516590)
19992 changesmanagement 2
  • Rolf Preben Hansen stepped down as board member
  • Solveig Ferm Petersen stepped down as board member
199710 changesmanagement 10
  • Niels Svend Jensen appointed board member
  • Niels Svend Jensen appointed director
  • Lars Victor Hamborg appointed board member
  • Øyvind Udness appointed chair of the board
  • Jørgen Oxenbøll stepped down as board member
  • Jørgen Oxenbøll stepped down as director
  • Lasse David Nergaard stepped down as chair of the board
  • Steinar Hennum Johnsen stepped down as board member
  • Erik Busk Christensen stepped down as deputy board member
  • Bente Oldenburg stepped down as deputy board member
19962 changesmerger 1 · management 1
  • Merger registered in CVR
  • Anders Goran Fransson stepped down as chair of the board
19956 changesname 1 · management 5
  • Name changed from GINGE-KERR A/S to UNITOR DENMARK A/S
  • Helle Ove Mogensen stepped down as board member
  • Rune Falstad stepped down as board member
  • Øistein Hansen stepped down as chair of the board
  • Erik Secher stepped down as board member
  • Hanne Simonsen stepped down as deputy board member
19942 changesmanagement 2
  • Pierre Robitaille stepped down as board member
  • Ajitinder Sodhi stepped down as chair of the board
19933 changesmanagement 3
  • Helle Ove Mogensen appointed board member
  • Torben Ardal Levinsen stepped down as board member
  • Gerhard Legault stepped down as board member
19922 changesmanagement 2
  • Jørgen Oxenbøll appointed board member
  • Jørgen Oxenbøll appointed director
19917 changesmanagement 7
  • Søren Bach Rahbek stepped down as ceo
  • Lars-Petter Berndt Leonard Godenheilm stepped down as chair of the board
  • Juha Veikko Olavi Toivola stepped down as board member
  • Henrik Stenbjerre stepped down as board member
  • Ole Bjarnsholt stepped down as board member
  • Peter Steen Gewecke stepped down as deputy board member
  • Peter Ove Jensen stepped down as board member
19891 changemanagement 1
  • Carl-Erik Kortman stepped down as chair of the board
19882 changescapital 1 · management 1
  • Share capital changed from 1,000,000 DKK to 2,000,000 DKK
  • Erhardt Gram stepped down as deputy chair
19871 changename 1
  • Name changed from A/S AF 8. SEPTEMBER 1970 to GINGE-KERR A/S
197026 changesfounded 1 · management 24 · ownership 1
  • Registered as A/S AF 8. SEPTEMBER 1970
  • Erhardt Gram appointed deputy chair
  • Lasse David Nergaard appointed chair of the board
  • Anders Goran Fransson appointed chair of the board
  • Steinar Hennum Johnsen appointed board member
  • Rune Falstad appointed board member
  • Øistein Hansen appointed chair of the board
  • Pierre Robitaille appointed board member
  • Gerhard Legault appointed board member
  • Ajitinder Sodhi appointed chair of the board
  • Lars-Petter Berndt Leonard Godenheilm appointed chair of the board
  • Juha Veikko Olavi Toivola appointed board member
  • Carl-Erik Kortman appointed chair of the board
  • Søren Bach Rahbek appointed ceo
  • Henrik Stenbjerre appointed board member
  • Erik Busk Christensen appointed deputy board member
  • Bente Oldenburg appointed deputy board member
  • Rolf Preben Hansen appointed board member
  • Solveig Ferm Petersen appointed board member
  • Torben Ardal Levinsen appointed board member
  • Erik Secher appointed board member
  • Hanne Simonsen appointed deputy board member
  • Ole Bjarnsholt appointed board member
  • Peter Steen Gewecke appointed deputy board member
  • Peter Ove Jensen appointed board member
  • Wilhelmsen Ships Service AS registered as owner (100%)

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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. The company is protected against advertising; contact details are not shown, and the data must not be used for marketing.

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