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Active in Denmark
8,489
14.1 per 10,000 residents
3-year change
+0.7%
12 months: +1.0%
Opened / closed (12 mo.)
1,434 / 1,347
Median gross profit
DKK 450k
63% profitable

Deeper numbers

Survival, trouble signs, competition and people for marketing & advertising agency in Hele Danmark.

Survival

Still open after 1 year77%
Still open after 3 years50%
Still open after 5 years36%

Businesses that closed in the last 10 years were open for 4.2 years on average.

Share of businesses started in the 10 years before each mark that were still open after 1, 3 and 5 years.

Trouble signs

Closed within 2 years of opening (last 12 months)559 · 42% of all closures
Companies with negative equity19%
Losses two years in a row20%

Equity and losses from annual reports 2025.

Financial health

Made a loss35%
Median equity ratio48%
Gross profit per employeeDKK 513k
Staff costs per employeeDKK 476k

Medians of companies that filed annual reports for 2025 - 2,374 companies.

Competition

Run by chains (3+ places)1%
Share of the 3 largest operators0% · 8,342 owners
9 places
8 places
6 places
4 places
4 places

New and established

Openings per 10,000 residents (12 months)2.38
Average age of active businesses8.3 yrs
Younger than 2 years26%
Older than 10 years28%

Distance to the nearest one

Residents more than 5 km from one195,040 · 3%
More than 10 km24,924
Farthest parish (5,000+ residents)3.2 km · Vodskov Sogn (Aalborg)

Measured from each parish centre.

When businesses open and close

05001,0001,500Opened Jan: 1,114Closed Jan: 582JanOpened Feb: 765Closed Feb: 507Opened Mar: 739Closed Mar: 749MarOpened Apr: 807Closed Apr: 466Opened May: 689Closed May: 533MayOpened Jun: 617Closed Jun: 702Opened Jul: 594Closed Jul: 455JulOpened Aug: 736Closed Aug: 583Opened Sep: 706Closed Sep: 611SepOpened Oct: 726Closed Oct: 561Opened Nov: 632Closed Nov: 548NovOpened Dec: 494Closed Dec: 1,100
OpenedClosed

Per calendar month, 2021–2025. Many closures are dated 31 December (the end of a financial year), so December's closures are higher than when businesses actually stopped.

Jobs

0200k400k600k20172019202120232025Employees

Average number of employees reported in the annual reports of companies that file accounts, sole proprietorships are not included.

Farthest from the nearest marketing & advertising agency

Postcodes with at least 10,000 residents, measured from the postcode centre (the average of its addresses) – possible gaps in the local offer.

PostcodeResidentsDistance
9560 Hadsund10,3165.5 km
7700 Thisted25,2282.6 km
6630 Rødding10,0042.5 km
7900 Nykøbing M13,0282.3 km
6950 Ringkøbing13,9852.2 km
6900 Skjern13,1251.8 km
9300 Sæby12,1711.7 km
6715 Esbjerg N11,7101.6 km
7600 Struer15,5681.6 km
6100 Haderslev33,8001.6 km

Active in Denmark over time

05,00010k2011Q4 13Q3 16Q2 192022Q4 24Marketing & advertising agency

Openings and closures per year

01,0002,0003,000Opened 2015: 1,001Closed 2015: 6202015Opened 2016: 1,096Closed 2016: 736Opened 2017: 1,081Closed 2017: 7662017Opened 2018: 1,127Closed 2018: 879Opened 2019: 1,173Closed 2019: 1,0042019Opened 2020: 1,580Closed 2020: 1,048Opened 2021: 2,053Closed 2021: 1,2122021Opened 2022: 1,689Closed 2022: 1,473Opened 2023: 1,785Closed 2023: 1,5902023Opened 2024: 1,756Closed 2024: 1,594Opened 2025: 1,336Closed 2025: 1,5282025Opened 2026 (so far): 1,309Closed 2026 (so far): 1,0652026*
OpenedClosed* 2026 so far

Financials of companies filing accounts

0200k400k600k20172019202120232025Median gross profitMedian result
Median gross profitMedian result

Based on annual reports from Erhvervsstyrelsen. Sole proprietorships don't publish accounts.

By year

YearFilersMedian gross profitMiddle 50%Profitable
20252,374DKK 450k DKK 25k – DKK 1.7m63%
20242,394DKK 461k DKK 16k – DKK 1.8m62%
20232,374DKK 479k DKK 24k – DKK 1.7m60%
20222,339DKK 483k DKK 19k – DKK 1.8m60%
20212,298DKK 460k DKK 38k – DKK 1.7m64%
20202,325DKK 375k DKK 17k – DKK 1.5m57%
20192,271DKK 440k DKK 22k – DKK 1.7m58%
20182,105DKK 427k DKK 17k – DKK 1.7m57%
20171,313DKK 534k DKK 30k – DKK 2.0m63%

By region

RegionActivePer 10k3-yr change
Region Hovedstaden3,90320.0+3%
Region Midtjylland1,84813.3-1%
Region Nordjylland5319.0-10%
Region Sjælland86010.0+1%
Region Syddanmark1,31210.5+1%

What's included

Businesses whose main Danish branche code (DB07/DB25) starts with:

7311…Reklamebureauer
7312…Reklameplads i medier

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