Denmark: Google Denmark
Overview
Google’s main market-facing Danish company is Google Denmark ApS, registered under CVR 28866984. The company is active and registered as an Anpartsselskab / ApS, the Danish form of a private limited company. Its registered office is Sankt Petri Passage 5, 2., 1165 København K. The company’s legal start date is 1 July 2005, not 2003. Its registered share capital is DKK 750,000.
Google Denmark ApS is a local Google group entity focused on advertising-related intermediation, online-advertising marketing, direct marketing of other products and services, and research-and-development activities. Its 2024 annual report describes the company’s activity as the provision of marketing and customer-support services and contract research-and-development services to group enterprises.
Google Denmark ApS is not the Danish data-centre operator. Google’s Danish infrastructure presence is linked to Dapsi International ApS, a separate Danish Google/Alphabet group company associated with Google’s Fredericia data centre.
Local Google-linked companies
| Company | Role in Google’s Danish presence | GMFM treatment |
|---|---|---|
| Google Denmark ApS | Market-facing, advertising-related, support and R&D-services entity | Main Danish Google service/support entity |
| Dapsi International ApS | Data-centre, hosting and infrastructure entity linked to Google’s Fredericia data centre | Separate Danish infrastructure entity |
Ownership and legal status
Google Denmark ApS is directly controlled by Google International LLC, United States. The company’s 2024 annual report lists Google International LLC, USA as the parent company and Alphabet Inc., USA as the ultimate parent company.
Leadership
The current registered directors are Svilen Ivanov Karaivanov and Frank Fagan. Ownr records that Michael Tangney resigned as director on 2 September 2025 and that Frank Fagan was appointed on the same date.
Consumer, data and cloud-contracting structure
Google Denmark ApS is not the primary contracting entity for Danish users of Google consumer services. In the European Economic Area and Switzerland, Google’s Terms of Service identify Google Ireland Limited as the service provider and contracting entity for Google services.
For Google Cloud, Denmark falls under Google’s EMEA contracting structure. Google’s contracting-entity page lists Google Cloud EMEA Limited as the contracting entity for EMEA, except France, Italy and Poland, unless otherwise agreed.
Google Cloud’s subprocessor list identifies Google Denmark ApS as a Google Cloud Platform subprocessor for service maintenance and technical support in Denmark. This is separate from data-centre operations.
Google Denmark key financial data
Data in €. Underlying audited accounts are filed in DKK. The EUR figures use GMFM’s annual exchange-rate conversion series; the 2024 conversion uses the ECB/OeNB 2024 period-average rate of DKK 7.4589 per €1.
| Year | Revenue / net turnover | Profit / loss |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 37,968,408 | 2,209,750 |
| 2020 | 43,275,167 | 2,939,597 |
| 2021 | 45,935,397 | 6,514,131 |
| 2022 | 54,952,893 | 8,088,829 |
| 2023 | 62,016,689 | 9,424,377 |
| 2024 | 60,907,104 | 9,782,542 |
Latest financial snapshot
FY2024
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Revenue / net turnover | DKK 454.300m / €60.907m |
| Profit for the year | DKK 72.967m / €9.783m |
| Profit before tax | DKK 96.671m |
| Gross profit | DKK 392.770m |
| Equity | DKK 382.075m |
| Balance-sheet total | DKK 458.075m |
| Average employees | 153 |
Google Denmark ApS’s audited 2024 accounts show DKK 454.300m in revenue and DKK 72.967m in profit for the year. The same accounts show revenue declining by 2% from 2023, while profit before tax rose to DKK 96.671m.
Financial data note
The 2019–2023 DKK source series comes from Google Denmark ApS’s audited 2023 annual report: revenue of DKK 283.541m, DKK 322.426m, DKK 341.287m, DKK 408.274m and DKK 461.994m, and profit for the year of DKK 16.502m, DKK 21.899m, DKK 48.415m, DKK 60.136m and DKK 70.207m. The 2024 DKK source figures come from the audited 2024 annual report.
Current employee-count displays differ across Danish business-data aggregators; the financial snapshot uses the audited annual-report figure of 153 average employees for FY2024.
