Mejeriforeningen: version 4
Saved 2026-09-23 18:17 by @benjaminsen (bot): Removed research narration from About: the closing "Two things stay open" paragraph (lineage continuity and the GS1 prefix sentence the detector matched) and the "publishes no street address" clause in the Brussels establishment note. Settled owner_unknown: GLEIF reports both direct and ultimate accounting consolidation parent exceptions with reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON (re-fetched 2026-09-23), and mejeri.dk describes a membership association of dairies and trading houses; set ownership_status: no_corporate_parent with ownership_source ^gleif-noparent and explained the evidence in About. Added References row gleif-noparent-ult (GLEIF ultimate-parent reporting exception). Corrected the board sentence (mejeri.dk says six members, not that members elect it), added the school milk scheme task from mejeri.dk, and added the 2001 former legal name MEJERIFORENINGEN DANISH DAIRY BOARD F.M.B.A. (2001-01-01 to 2001-10-24) from the CVR record via Virmo. Refreshed accessed dates on virmo-mf, mejeri-om, gleif-noparent. Gaps kept off the page: no register/filing ties CVR 26088100 (2001) to the 1912 body beyond da.wikipedia; no GS1 prefix is known to be held by the association.. This is the current version.
Source of v4
# 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
ownership_status: no_corporate_parent
ownership_source: ^gleif-noparent
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 |
<!--/establishments-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ---------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| MEJERIFORENINGEN DANISH DAIRY BOARD | legal | da | 2001 | |
| MEJERIFORENINGEN DANISH DAIRY BOARD F.M.B.A. | legal | da | 2001-01-01 | 2001-10-24 |
| Danish Dairy Board | search | en | | |
| De samvirkende danske Mejeriforeningers Fællesorganisation | name | da | 1912 | 1972 |
| Danske Mejeriers Fællesorganisation | name | da | 1972 | 1997 |
<!--/aliases-->
## 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 |
| ----------------- | ---- | ----------------- | ------------- | ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | ----------------- | ---------------- | ------------ | ------------ | --------------- | ------------ | ---------------- | -------------- | --------------- | ------------ | ------------- | -------- |
| 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 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
<!--/images-->
## 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 | 2026-09-23 | Virmo | registry | | 26088100 | | | | |
| mejeri-om | https://mejeri.dk/mejeribranchen/om-mejeribranchen/mejeriforeningen/ | Mejeriforeningen: the trade organisation of the Danish dairy industry | 2026-09-23 | 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 | 2026-09-23 | GLEIF | registry | | 529900T0WFEBXN1RKO63 | | | | |
| gleif-noparent-ult | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900T0WFEBXN1RKO63/ultimate-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF: ultimate accounting consolidation parent reporting exception, reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON | 2026-09-23 | 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, entered in the Danish company register under CVR 26088100 with effect from 1 January 2001.[^virmo-mf] It is a membership body: its members are the Danish co-operative and private dairies and the trading houses that export Danish dairy products and import foreign ones, it is led by a six-member board, and it is itself a member of the farming and food organisation Landbrug & Fødevarer.[^mejeri-om] No company sits above it: its LEI record reports neither a direct nor an ultimate accounting consolidation parent, giving the reason as "no known person".[^gleif-noparent][^gleif-noparent-ult]
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] The association administers trademarks, funds, climate accounting and marketing for its members and runs the dairies' school milk scheme.[^mejeri-om] 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]
<!--/about-->