The A.P.Møller-Mærsk company Maersk Line Limited has won a favourable contract for transportation of oil in Asia for the US military, TradeWinds wrote.

The retail chain Dansk Supermarked

SAS will cut 300 full-time jobs on top of the already announced dismissals under the current cost savings plan SAS Core, the company wrote in the annual report which also contains new information about the company’s debt situation.

Bavarian Nordic has today announced that the company has published additional data demonstrating that mice could be protected from lethal infection with mousepox, a closely related virus to smallpox in man, the company wrote in an announcement.

As part of Vestas’ efforts to optimise and diversify its funding base and to further strengthen its capital resources, the company has decided to launch an issuance of bonds denominated in Euro.

MT Højgaard has been awarded a major contract valued at approx. EUR 130 million

When shall we see the turnaround?

NeuroSearch expects in 2010 a loss before financials and other shares of results in the region of DKK 400 million, the company wrote in its financial statement for 2009.

The price increases are now lower than before but still higher than expected.

The industrial biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic maintains its 2010 expectations for revenue in the region of DKK 475 million and a loss before taxes in the region of DKK 250 million.

Although the figure is considerably lower than it was in the same month last year, the industrial production has been increasing since December last year. The latest data from Statistics Denmark show that the industrial production rose by 3.7 per cent fra December 2009 to January 2010.

The consumption of toys has not been hit by the financial crisis and, for the time being, the over 3,000 employees at the LEGO Group at Billund need not worry about their job.

From December to January the registered unemployment fell by 200 persons, corresponding to an unchanged unemployment rate of 4.2 per cent of the labour force. The January unemployment was thus 118.000 persons.

After today’s announcement of the weakest annual result ever, A.P.Moller-Maersk expects a modest profit for 2010.

Maersk Tankers’ financial result for 2009 was a segment loss of USD 225 million after a profit of USD 405 million the previous year. Revenue rose to USD 1166 million from USD 940 million.

A.P.Moller-Maersk’s 2009 result for the retail activities was better than the analysts had expected.

CEO Nils Smedegaard Andersen today presented the weakest result for A.P.Moller-Maersk in the company’s 106 years’ history.

The big losses and loan impairments we have seen in the banking sector may have peaked. Two out of three banks which have reported annual results have achieved profits in 2009.

Novo Nordisk announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration, FDA, has approved Norditropin FlexPro, a prefilled growth hormone injection pen, the company wrote today in a press release. The approval concerns growth hormone treatment of both children and adults.

The bank customers’ lost billions have triggered a global wave of anger against the financial sector, but the Nordic banks have improved their position in the ranking.