Private company

Nilfisk

Logo: Nilfisk, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

Danish cleaning equipment company

Nilfisk is a supplier of professional cleaning equipment in both industrial, commercial and consumer markets. The company is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with sales entities in 45 countries and dealers in more than 100 countries. Nilfisk has manufacturing facilities in various countries.2 It employed 380 people in 2024.1 Its revenue was DKK 3.8 billion in 2024.1 It is part of Nilfisk Holding.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1906Founded1
  • Industrycleaning tool, industrial manufacturing1
  • HeadquartersCopenhagen1
  • Websitewww.nilfisk.com
  • Legal formaktieselskab1
  • LEI529900EFI0OD4JHP65693
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressMarmorvej 8, 2100 København Ø, Denmark3
  • Registered withDanish Business Authority, 625722133

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Nilfisk-Factory1954
Photo: Nilfisk-Advance, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons6

Nilfisk is a supplier of professional cleaning equipment in both industrial, commercial and consumer markets. The company is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with sales entities in 45 countries and dealers in more than 100 countries. Nilfisk has manufacturing facilities in various countries. It has approximately 4,844 employees worldwide. The company's core businesses are the supply of industrial and commercial cleaning machines and professional high-pressure cleaning equipment. Nilfisk also markets vacuum cleaners and high-pressure cleaners to consumers. The company was owned by NKT Holding until late 2017. Nilfisk is a part of the United Nations Global Compact. The company was spun off by NKT Holdings in October 2017 and is now listed as an independent company on Nasdaq Copenhagen.2

Corporate structure

Nilfisk is part of a group headed by Nilfisk Holding A/S. 3 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Nilfisk reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Nilfisk was founded in Denmark in 1906 by Peder Andersen Fisker (1875–1975) and Hans Marius Nielsen (1870–1954) as Fisker & Nielsen. Originally the company produced electrical engines as the basic component in ventilators, kitchen elevators, drilling machines and, later on, the Nimbus motorcycle.

In 1989 NKT Holding, listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange, bought Fisker & Nielsen. In 1994 Nilfisk A/S acquired Advance Machine Company and in 1998 Nilfisk A/S was renamed Nilfisk-Advance. In 1998 Nilfisk-Advance merged with Euroclean/Kent and between 2000 and 2011, Nilfisk-Advance acquired CFM, Gerni, ALTO, Ecologica, United States Products, Viper, Hydramaster, Egholm, Plataforma and Jungo, making Nilfisk-Advance one of the largest suppliers of professional cleaning equipment worldwide. In 2015, Nilfisk-Advance changed name to Nilfisk. In 2020, Nilfisk partnered with Thoro.ai, originally part of Carnegie Robotics LLC. The tornado outbreak of March 29–31, 2022 destroyed their Springdale plant in 2022.

From Wikipedia’s article on Nilfisk, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

  • Nilfisk Holding

Also owns

Parent company (GLEIF)

From Wikidata.1 Ownership links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); each one cites its LEI record.

Employees over time

  • 20243801

Revenue over time

As stated on Wikidata, in the currency reported.

Revenue

  • 20243.8B DKK1

Timeline

  1. Feb 19, 2018Parent Directly consolidated by Nilfisk Holding A/S3
  2. 1906Founded Founded1

Sources

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