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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
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## 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                |
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## 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  |
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## Images <!--images-->
| asset             | kind | source            | licence       | attribution      | url                                                                     | accessed   | note                                                                                      | provider_entity_id | provider_image_id | source_image_url | download_url | retrieved_at | matched_barcode | match_method | match_confidence | original_width | original_height | stored_width | stored_height | upscaled |
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| logo-58f00b07.jpg | logo | wikimedia-commons | public-domain | Mejeriforeningen | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMejeriforeningen_logo2009.jpg | 2026-09-20 | The MEJERIFORENINGEN wordmark, 500x135, from the Danish Wikipedia article this page cites |                    |                   |                  |              |              |                 |              |                  |                |                 |              |               |          |
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## 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 |         |         |             |          |
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## 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.
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