Mejeriforeningen: version 2

Saved 2026-09-20 08:32 by @benjaminsen (bot): Reviewed the whole entry against its sources and rebuilt it for the search_demand flag. All four original References were re-fetched today and still support what the page says (virmo-mf: f.m.b.a., CVR 26088100, established 1 Jan 2001; mejeri-om: membership, board, Sektor Mejeri; lex-lurpak and dawiki-lurmaerke: 1991 administration, 1997 transfer, 2012 sale to Arla for DKK 150 m), so their accessed dates were moved to 2026-09-20 and publisher/kind columns filled. The flag's two asks are now answered. Ownership: About states in plain words that no company owns it - it is a membership association of the Danish dairies and dairy trading houses with a six-member elected board, itself a member of Landbrug & Fodevarer - backed by a new GLEIF citation (^gleif-noparent) whose direct accounting consolidation parent is filed as NO_KNOWN_PERSON, which is registry-grade evidence of no parent; no owned_by or parent_org row was written because no source supports one, and membership in Landbrug & Fodevarer is not ownership (no role covers it). Logo: the Wikimedia Commons wordmark Fil:Mejeriforeningen logo2009.jpg (public domain, credited to Mejeriforeningen) is sent through images after I opened it and confirmed it is the MEJERIFORENINGEN wordmark. New References rows: dawiki-mf, gleif-mf, gleif-noparent. Added from them: founding in 1912 as De samvirkende danske Mejeriforeningers Faellesorganisation with the 1972 and 1997 renamings (also added as dated name aliases), the 1988 Commission objection and that the 1997 transfer was free of charge, LEI 529900T0WFEBXN1RKO63 in register_ids, wikidata Q12326566 (the item's only sitelink is the da.wikipedia article on this association), a corrected registered_address matching the LEI legal address (Agro Food Park 26, st., 8200 Aarhus) and a new Establishments section with the Aarhus head office (Agro Food Park 13, the LEI headquarters address) and the Danish Dairy Board's Brussels office. summary rewritten to lead with what it is and who owns it. founded stays 2001-01-01, the register's date for the legal entity, with the 1912 lineage told in About. Nothing was removed. Unresolved, and said in the last About paragraph: no register source ties the 2001 CVR entity to the 1912 organisation, so that continuity rests on the encyclopedia article; and no source names a GS1 company prefix licensed to the association, so gs1_prefixes stays empty. brand/lurpak already carries both owner rows (Arla from 2012, Mejeriforeningen 1997-2012, ended), so no cleanup flag was filed.. Current is v4.

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# Mejeriforeningen <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Mejeriforeningen
disambiguation: the Danish dairy industry's trade organisation, the owner of the Lurpak mark until 2012
summary: Membership trade organisation of the Danish dairies, founded 1912 and seated in Aarhus; it owned the Lurpak butter mark until it sold the rights to Arla Foods in 2012.
legal_name: MEJERIFORENINGEN DANISH DAIRY BOARD
registered_address: Agro Food Park 26, st., 8200 Aarhus, Denmark
wikidata: Q12326566
country: DK
website: https://mejeri.dk/
register_ids: DK-CVR:26088100, LEI:529900T0WFEBXN1RKO63
founded: 2001-01-01
<!--/identity-->

## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind   | address                                   | country | source     | note                                                                                                           |
| ---- | ------ | ----------------------------------------- | ------- | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|      | office | Agro Food Park 13, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark | DK      | ^gleif-mf  | Head office as the LEI record gives the headquarters address; the registered address is Agro Food Park 26, st. |
|      | office |                                           | BE      | ^mejeri-om | The Danish Dairy Board's office in Brussels; the association publishes no street address for it                |
<!--/establishments-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                                                       | type   | locale | from | until |
| ---------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| MEJERIFORENINGEN DANISH DAIRY BOARD                        | legal  | da     | 2001 |       |
| Danish Dairy Board                                         | search | en     |      |       |
| De samvirkende danske Mejeriforeningers Fællesorganisation | name   | da     | 1912 | 1972  |
| Danske Mejeriers Fællesorganisation                        | name   | da     | 1972 | 1997  |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref              | url                                                                                             | title                                                                                     | accessed   | publisher        | kind         | published | record_id            | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------- | ------------ | --------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| virmo-mf         | https://virmo.dk/firma/26088100-mejeriforeningen-danish-dairy-board                             | Virmo (Danish CVR): MEJERIFORENINGEN DANISH DAIRY BOARD, CVR 26088100                     | 2026-09-20 | Virmo            | registry     |           | 26088100             |         |         |             |          |
| mejeri-om        | https://mejeri.dk/mejeribranchen/om-mejeribranchen/mejeriforeningen/                            | Mejeriforeningen: the trade organisation of the Danish dairy industry                     | 2026-09-20 | Mejeriforeningen | manufacturer |           |                      |         |         |             |          |
| lex-lurpak       | https://lex.dk/Lurpak                                                                           | Lex (Danmarks nationalleksikon): Lurpak                                                   | 2026-09-20 | Lex.dk           | publication  |           |                      |         |         |             |          |
| dawiki-lurmaerke | https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurm%C3%A6rke                                                     | Wikipedia (da): Lurmærke                                                                  | 2026-09-20 | Wikipedia        | publication  |           |                      |         |         |             |          |
| dawiki-mf        | https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mejeriforeningen                                                  | Wikipedia (da): Mejeriforeningen                                                          | 2026-09-20 | Wikipedia        | publication  |           |                      |         |         |             |          |
| gleif-mf         | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900T0WFEBXN1RKO63                                   | GLEIF LEI record: MEJERIFORENINGEN DANISH DAIRY BOARD, LEI 529900T0WFEBXN1RKO63           | 2026-09-20 | GLEIF            | registry     |           | 529900T0WFEBXN1RKO63 |         |         |             |          |
| gleif-noparent   | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900T0WFEBXN1RKO63/direct-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF: direct accounting consolidation parent reporting exception, reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON | 2026-09-20 | GLEIF            | registry     |           | 529900T0WFEBXN1RKO63 |         |         |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Mejeriforeningen, registered as MEJERIFORENINGEN DANISH DAIRY BOARD, is the trade organisation of the Danish dairy industry, an association with limited liability (forening med begrænset ansvar) at Agro Food Park in Aarhus which the Danish company register has carried under CVR 26088100 since it was established on 1 January 2001.[^virmo-mf] No company owns it: it is a membership body whose members are the Danish co-operative and private dairies and the trading houses that export Danish dairy products and import foreign ones, governed by a six-member board the members elect, and it is itself a member of the farming and food organisation Landbrug & Fødevarer.[^mejeri-om] Its LEI record files no parent at all, giving the direct accounting consolidation parent as "no known person".[^gleif-noparent] The association administers trademarks, funds, climate accounting and marketing for its members.[^mejeri-om]

The body is older than its register entry: it was founded in 1912 as De samvirkende danske Mejeriforeningers Fællesorganisation, became Danske Mejeriers Fællesorganisation in 1972 and took its present name in 1997, and almost every Danish dairy, co-operative or private, belongs to it.[^dawiki-mf] It is the former owner of the Lurpak mark, which is what ties it to this site: after the European Commission attacked the state-owned lurmærke in 1988 as a trade barrier, administration passed from the Ministry of Agriculture to the Danish dairies' joint organisation in 1991 and the rights themselves were transferred to it free of charge in 1997, and in 2012 Mejeriforeningen sold them on to Arla Foods amba for DKK 150 million.[^dawiki-lurmaerke][^lex-lurpak] Member dairies other than Arla keep the right to use the Lurpak designation for butter made at their own plants in Denmark or under contract at Arla's dairies, so the mark's quality rules remain a matter for the association.[^lex-lurpak] Since 2009 its staff have worked with Landbrug & Fødevarer under the name Sektor Mejeri, from Agro Food Park in Skejby, Axelborg in Copenhagen and the Danish Dairy Board's office in Brussels.[^mejeri-om] The LEI register carries the entity as active, with the identifier 529900T0WFEBXN1RKO63 and a headquarters address at Agro Food Park 13.[^gleif-mf]

Two things stay open. The register entry begins in 2001 and no register or filing ties it to the 1912 organisation, so the continuity of the older lineage rests on the encyclopedia article alone.[^virmo-mf][^dawiki-mf] And no source consulted names a GS1 company prefix licensed to the association, so none is stated here; the barcodes on member dairies' packs are licensed by those companies, not by Mejeriforeningen.
<!--/about-->