Private company

Post Danmark

Logo: Post Danmark A/S derivative work: Fry1989 eh?, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons⁴

Danish postal service

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1995Founded¹

Industrylogistics¹
HeadquartersCopenhagen¹
Websitewww.postnord.dk
Legal formaktieselskab¹
LEI549300CFK69DBXE72T27³
StatusActive³
LEI statusIssued and current³
Registered addressHedegaardsvej 88, København S, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark³
Registered withDanish Business Authority, 26663903³

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Post Danmark A/S, trading as PostNord Denmark (Danish: PostNord Danmark), was the national provider of postal services in Denmark. It was established as a fully state-owned stock holder's company in 1995 following political liberalization efforts. Post Danmark had taken over the mail delivery concession (Danish: befordringspligt) of its predecessor, the governmental department Postvæsenet, which was established in 1624. Post Danmark A/S was turned into a public limited company in 2002. In 2005, 22% of the company shares were sold to CVC Capital Partners, 3.5% of the company shares were partly sold to employees at a discount, partly kept in reserve for a management incentives program. In 2009, it was merged with the Swedish Posten AB to form PostNord, a joint postal service company between Denmark and Sweden.²

Corporate structure

Post Danmark is part of a group headed by Kammarkollegiet. 10 entities, 3 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Kammarkollegiet Stockholm, Sweden
- PostNord Stockholm, Sweden
  - Posten AB 100% · Stockholm, Sweden
    - Post Danmark Stockholm, Sweden
    - ZebSign AS Subsidiary
    - PostNord Oy Subsidiary · Vantaa, Finland
    - PostNord Stralfors AB (PostNord Strålfors AB) Subsidiary · Malmö, Sweden
    - PostNord Sverige AB Subsidiary · Stockholm, Sweden
  - E-Boks Subsidiary · 50% · Copenhagen Municipality
  - PostNord Logistics Subsidiary · Stockholm

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.

The story

Founded by Christian IV of Denmark in 1995.¹

Leadership

Who has led Post Danmark, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

FounderChristian IV of Denmark¹

Products and brands

PostNord announced the discontinuation of its letter service in Denmark by the end of 2025 when it will focus on parcels instead. The delivery of the last letter happened on 30 December 2025 to the postal and communications museum.

Since June 2025, PostNord has been removing the 1,500 mailboxes across Denmark. On 10 December of the same year it sold them off to raise money for charity, but thousands of Danes also tried to buy one. For each mailbox, they paid either 2,000 ($315) or 1,500 ($236) Danish kroner, depending on their condition.

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

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

PostNord since 2009

Owners

PostNord

Former owners and parents

Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing until 2009

Parent company (GLEIF)

Posten AB³

Ultimate parent

Kammarkollegiet³

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

Acquisitions

Succeeded Post & Telegrafvæsenet¹

On 1 April 2008 Post Danmark announced its intention to merge with its Swedish counterpart, Posten AB, to realise greater economies of scale and postal synergies. The combined company post-merger had an annual revenue of approximately 45 billion Swedish krona and employed more than 50,000 people. Immediately following the merger the combined company was 18% owned by the Danish state and the company's employees, 60% by the Swedish state, and 22% by the private equity house CVC Capital Partners. At that time it was expected that the company would be listed on the stock exchanges of both Copenhagen and Stockholm within 3–5 years, but as of 2019 this had yet to happen. The merger completed on 24 June 2009. Post Danmark merged with Posten AB to form the new holding company Posten Norden AB, currently known as PostNord. Posten Norden AB has since been renamed PostNord AB.

On 2 February 2009, in advance of the merger, it was announced that CVC had entered into an agreement with the Government of Denmark to sell its stake in Post Danmark in exchange for Post Danmark's 49.9 stake in La Poste/De Post (then the name for Bpost), the state postal service of Belgium, in a transaction valued at 473 million euros. CVC had originally acquired its stake in Post Danmark in 2005 during the latter's partial privatisation.