Every year Danish fur farmers raise almost 14 million
mink.
1,500 Danish fur farmers own the cooperative company
Kopenhagen Fur.
Kopenhagen Fur is the world's largest auction house for furs and
the global centre of the fur trade.
Kopenhagen Fur has a turnover of 7 billion Danish kroner
(1,27 billion USD) per year.
Fur skins are Denmark's largest export commodity to the booming
economy in Hong Kong/China.
Fur farming is Denmark's third largest type of animal
farming.
The Ministry of Commerce in Denmark has selected the fur trade
as one of 29 special competence clusters in Danish economic
life.
Fur farming is a sustainable production that relieves the food
industry of large quantities of waste cuts and by-products.
