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CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2018
06 EDITOR IN CHIEF JESPER UGGERHØJ
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EDITOR MICHAEL ABILON MAB@KOPENHAGENFUR.COM L AYOUT YEDDA ZHANG PRINT ROSENDAHLS ADVERTISING K ATHRINE ENGBERG / [+45] 4326 1112 COVER SUSTAINABILIT Y IS THE KE Y WORD BEHIND
6 A united global fur trade wants to explain the advantages of fur 8 A love, a passion: Fendi furriers visited Kopenhagen Fur Studio
THE L ATEST KOPENHAGEN FUR STUDIO COLLECTION, AND SUSTAINABILIT Y IS SOMETHING THAT THE
10 News in brief
INTERNATIONAL FUR TR ADE WILL HAVE TO BE TO FOCUS ON E XPL AINING TO FUR CONSUMERS IN THE NE AR FUTURE. RE AD ABOUT THIS ON PAGE 6 IN THIS MAGA ZINE.
14 Kopenhagen Fur sponsors new panda housing 16 Norwegian Type fox brims with Scandinavian craftsmanship 18 Fur and the Olympics go hand in hand 19 “I was focused on quality and wanted to learn the finest craftsmanship” 20 Meet our auctioneers: Brian Tufvesson – The customers’ man on the podium 23 Events in Copenhagen 24 New reception this season 26 Changing our quality assessment to benefit our customers 27 Auction Schedule 2018 30 Contact Kopenhagen Fur
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EDITORIAL GREEN CONSCIENCE
At Kopenhagen Fur we look forward to welcoming well-known and new customers from all parts of the world to a new auction season when the February auction begins. At our five auctions in 2018 we expect to offer 29 million mink skins together with a variety of other skin types like chinchilla, seal, Swakara and not least Norwegian Type fox. The season’s offering will be large, varied and characterized by the high quality which is Kopenhagen Fur’s trade mark. In recent months, I have travelled and met customers in, for example, New York, London, Beijing, North China and Tokyo. In the big cities, which in many ways are trend-setting for the rest of the world, there was a lot of fur in the streets and in the shops, and to me this signals that consumers want to buy and wear fur. Nevertheless, during the same period, we have experienced the international fashion brand Gucci declaring itself fur-free. With an argument of sustainability, they have decided to replace natural fur with plastic fur. It reverberated in the international press with much coverage of Gucci’s decision. Of course, it is annoying for the fur industry that fashion brands deselect fur but when it is done with sustainability as the argument, it is incomprehensible. Fur is the closest to the definition of sustainability; it is a natural product, we feed with leftovers from the food industry, and we use everything from the animals. It tells me that as industry we must be much better at communicating our high standards of animal welfare and the sustainable sides of fur to the fashion industry and consumers. From Kopenhagen Fur’s side, we
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In recent months, I have travelled and met customers in, for example, New York, London, Beijing, North China and Tokyo. In the big cities, which in many ways are trendsetting for the rest of the world, there was a lot of fur in the streets and in the shops, and to me this signals that consumers want to buy and wear fur. Photo: Helle Moos
have taken the initiative to increase the industry’s joint efforts to strengthen the dialogue with fashion houses and especially with consumers. The fashionand quality- conscious consumer wants to wear fur; you can see it in the streets around the world. By communicating clearly about WelFur and the sustainability of purchasing a long-life natural product we must ensure that tomorrow’s responsible consumer will also buy fur. Kopenhagen Fur has been at the forefront of the work with IFF and Fur Europe because, as industry leader, we have the strength and also the duty to set the future direction so that the entire industry will have a good and positive future. I have experienced that all parts
of the fur industry are ready to join battle with us. There is fur in the high streets of the world’s big cities, and overall, we have never sold as much fur as we do now. It tells me that consumers really want to wear fur. Now we have to deliver on WelFur and knowledge about sustainability and we must communicate clearly about WelFur and sustainability to the consumers so that those with a good and green conscience will continue to buy fur.
BY JESPER UGGERHØJ, CEO, KOPENHAGEN FUR
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A UNITED GLOBAL FUR TRADE WANTS TO EXPLAIN THE ADVANTAGES OF FUR Fur can last for decades. It can be redesigned, it’s biodegradable and a good example of circular economy. For the conscientious consumer, fur goes a long way to meet the demands of the consumers. However, consumers need to be made aware of the advantages of fur. Therefore, the fur trade has joined forces to increase awareness, underline facts and bust myths. BY MICHAEL ABILON
The International Fur Federation (IFF) met in October in the wake of Gucci’s decision to remove fur from their products in 2018, their reasoning: An “absolute commitment to making sustainability an intrinsic part of our business”, said Marco Bizzarri CEO of Gucci. - It is a peculiar and misleading argument when Gucci claims that fur is not a sustainable choice. Our product is indeed sustainable, and it is a better choice than environmentally harmful fake fur made from crude oil, which spreads microplastics in our ground water and
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oceans. My opinion is that Gucci should have given their customers the right to decide for themselves whether they prefer natural or fake fur. Gucci should not take the choice of sustainability away from the customers and dictate what they should choose, says CEO Mark Oaten, IFF. MORE UNITED THAN EVER In the fur trade, there is obviously no doubt that natural materials are a better choice than synthetic ones. Thus, there was complete agreement among IFF members that the united fur trade should
launch a massive, global information effort, intended to root out myths about the trade, underline the facts and create a dialogue with consumers and the fashion industry. - Of course, we take it seriously
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FACTS ABOUT THE ADVANTAGES OF FUR AND MINK PRODUCTION • Feed for the animals is produced from leftover products from the human food production. • Everything is used: The fur is of course used for clothing, while the mink fat is processed for bio products such as bio diesel. Other leftover bioproducts from the mink is used for fertilizer. • Fur coats have a long lifespan – up to 40 years. The long lifespan means that fur is a product with a highly sustainable lifecycle. • Fur garments can be recycled and redesigned which prolongs its usability. • Fur is biodegradable. So, when the fur coat can no longer be used, it can re-enter the ecological circuit. • Extensive research documents the animal welfare on an international level, which is now certified under the WelFur programme. • The European mink production is highly regulated by international legislation.
when fashion houses state that they do not want to use fur. This has been an eye-opener for us. We need to improve ourselves when it comes to explaining the advantages of fur, getting the facts straight and addressing the misinformation that exists in some places. We haven’t been good enough at this. Fortunately, many fashion houses use fur; we need to make sure this continues. We will work closer than ever before in the trade, between auction houses and individual fur retailers and across countries organised by IFF and Fur Europe, says Mark Oaten.
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FACTS IN THE STORYTELLING The good stories about fur do not have to be written from scratch. The fur trade needs to collect knowledge and continue its work on acquiring documentation where necessary. Right now, this is being done with WelFur, where the fur trade has science-based documentation on animal welfare. Several other initiatives based on scientific research are underway to ensure that consumers have no doubts about animal welfare or the sustainability of fur. - We want to explain that fur is a modern choice adding value to
the fashion houses. It is natural and produced under high animal welfare standards. We also want to ally ourselves with other natural materials such as wool, cashmere and silk. Also, we are currently researching and documenting the environmental impact of fur in order to put the facts straight. A lot of facts and knowledge already exist in our trade, so we are not introducing anything new. It is rather about collecting the knowledge we have gained from the different sources within the fur trade in various countries and put it to good use so as to explain the advantages of fur, Mark Oaten says.
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A LOVE, A PASSION: FENDI FURRIERS VISITED KOPENHAGEN FUR STUDIO Two ‘artisans’ from Fendi visited Kopenhagen Fur Studio for a week of craftsmanship, knowledge sharing and fur competency development. The visit is part of a new relation with the pioneer fur fashion house. BY LOUISE BOE
Fendi furriers Attilio Morgante and Andrea Casales pictured here with Kopenhagen Fur Studio furrier, Mikkel Ø. Schou. The two Italian furriers spent a week at Kopenhagen Fur Studio to share knowledge and create new fur techniques.
Three furriers from Italy and Denmark around a table topped with fur, sharing knowledge and inventing new unique furtechniques. The location is Kopenhagen Fur Studio in the heart of Copenhagen. In October, the Italian furriers Attilio Morgante and Andrea Casales from Fendi spent a week with Creative Lead Furrier Mikkel Østergaard Schou at Kopenhagen Fur Studio to share knowledge and create new fur-techniques. Having Fendi in Kopenhagen Fur Studio is part of Kopenhagen Fur’s ongoing strategy to join creative forces with talented top fashion houses to ensure that fur remains a relevant material in fashion collections. FUR IS THE HEART OF FENDI Fendi started as a fur atelier back in 1925, which means that the fashion house
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is a true pioneer when it comes to fur craftsmanship. - Fur is the heart of Fendi; it’s their original design DNA. Fendi is so extremely talented also when it comes to fur because the brand started as a fur atelier, says Julie Maria Iversen, Creative Director at Kopenhagen Fur Studio and continues: - With Fendi’s history in mind, you might think: `What can Fendi learn from us? ´ But Fendi is aware that they too desire innovative input from others. This is what we can offer here at Kopenhagen Fur Studio as we are an inventive fur house with talented furriers, says Julie Maria Iversen. To get a first-hand view of the whole value chain from farm to fashion, Attilio Morgante and Andrea Casales were also
given the opportunity to visit a mink farm, as the culmination of a creative week at Kopenhagen Fur Studio. TEN YEARS TO BECOME A FURRIER Attilio Morgante has worked with fur for 37 years, which means he has become a true fur expert – a senior artisan, as Fendi calls their furriers. - It takes a long time to become a furrier because you need experience with every type of animal, with every technique. Ten years have passed before this knowledge is stored in your computer, so to speak, says Attilio Morgante pointing to his head. Attilio Morgante is teaching Andrea Casales the unique handcraft at Fendi. Here, it takes 10 years to become an artisan and Andrea Casales is halfway through his fur handcraft education.
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Curiosity. The two furriers from Fendi had the opportunity to visit a mink farm not far from Kopenhagen Fur.
There is no official furrier education in Italy, so most of the Italian furriers are sons and daughters of furrier families and Andrea Casales is no exception to the rule. His parents are the owners of a fur atelier in Italy. - Since I was little, I’ve been curious about the craftsmanship in the trade. As time passed, I saw the masterpieces that Fendi created. Now, my curiosity has turned into so much more – a love, a passion, says Andrea Casales. Attilio Morgante took quite an untypical way into the furrier craftsmanship when he started working with fur after finishing school. - I began when I was 16 years old, so this was my very first job after I finished school. I began working in a fur atelier and already at that time a passion was born. Now, I’ve been doing
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this line of work for about 37 years and my passion and love for fur never runs out, it just keeps growing as I work, says Attilio Morgante, who believes he will never finish exploring the many possibilities of fur. NEW TECHNIQUES Seven new fur techniques and a stronger partnership between Fendi and Kopenhagen Fur are the result of the first meeting in Copenhagen. - Even though we come from a large fashion house, the visit here in Copenhagen has pushed the boundaries for our work with fur. We have worked with techniques that we frankly never had the pleasure of working with before. I hope, for Kopenhagen Fur as well as for Fendi that, together, we will ensure
the continued development of craftsmanship and new techniques in the fur houses, says Attilio Morgante. In a long-term perspective, the dream for Kopenhagen Fur Studio is to create a Capsule Collection with Fendi, a collection that will display the many innovative and exclusive possibilities of fur to the consumers. - Visits like Fendi’s are essential for us. It is important for Kopenhagen Fur to keep supporting famous brands like Fendi, as we have a keen interest in ensuring that fur continues to be a relevant material in fashion collections among the premium fashion houses. The beautiful fur pieces that the premium fashion houses create serve as an inspiration to our auction customers and other fashion houses, says Julie Maria Iversen.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN KOPENHAGEN FUR’S HISTORY: TRIPLE TOP LOT BUYER NEVER BEFORE HAS KOPENHAGEN FUR HAD A CUSTOMER LIKE MR HE JING, WHO PURCHASED A TOTAL OF THREE TOP LOTS DURING ONE AUCTION. 50 skins in the Chinchilla Top Lot at the price of 1,280 DKK per skin; 50 skins in the Sapphire Velvet Males Top Lot priced at 840 DKK per skin; and, finally, the Silverblue Velvet Females Top Lot for 630 DKK per skin. Mr He Jing did not buy these skins with the intention of purchasing most Top Lots. In fact, he did not even know that this was the case until the Top Lot pictures were taken. - What really matters is that I wanted the finest quality of skins for my customers, says Mr He Jing. A PRIVATE CLUB His business specializes in making fine, quality customised fur and leather garments for high-end fur customers. His business is well-known in Beijing as Beijing Zhi Jiang Fur Garments Studio and known abroad as Beijing Sensations Fur. The company was founded by his grandfather in the 1940s as Zhong Xin Fur Shop. His grandfather originally came to Beijing from Tianjin with dreams of starting a successful fur business, a dream that He Jing’s father continued and culminated in He Jing’s luxury fur retail shop. - It is a private club. Customers come to have their fur
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garments tailor-made. In fact, the Chinchilla Top Lot is already reserved for a buyer, he says. His luxury store is located in one of the prestigious, beautiful and traditional districts of Beijing. Here, his company is located in one of the well-known, traditional courtyard houses, Si He Yuan that evokes the history of the Western Zhou period in China dating back over 2,000 years. His decision to create his business here and brand it as a private, exclusive club, as well as his decision to purchase the three Top Lots, go hand in hand. - Whatever the cost, we must have the finest skins for my customers in surroundings that evoke the history of China, he says. TRADITIONAL GARMENTS FOR MODERN CONSUMERS Mr He Jing also visited Kopenhagen Fur Studio during his stay in Denmark, a visit that inspired him to see the potential in fur techniques. - It was fabulous. It truly inspired me to experiment with complex fur techniques, he says and begins to explain his own approach to fur designs. - In my own store, I typically focus on traditional eastern Chinese garments with a modern twist, he says. In the future, Mr He Jing plans to purchase more Top Lots at Kopenhagen Fur for his own valued customers, as they appreciate the high skin quality as well as the excellent work produced in his own brand.
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Golden Lady Furs, who owns the brand ’LaoPanPicao’, at the Swakara auction. Kevin Wan has bought Top Lots at Kopenhagen Fur auctions before, but this was the first time he has bought Swakara Top Lots. Plans have already been made for how the newly acquired skins will be used. - Swakara is very beautiful and you can make very unique styles with it. We are working on a project with Kopenhagen Fur Studio to promote the beautiful Swakara in China, he says.
BLACK AND WHITE SWAKARA TOP LOTS SOLD TO GOLDEN LADY FURS
Kevin Wan is not able to reveal more about the design collaboration with Kopenhagen Fur or what kind of design it will be yet, but it will be really nice, he says.
- WE HAD PLANNED TO BUY BOTH TOP LOTS IN SWAKARA AND EVERYTHING WENT AS PLANNED, SAYS KEVIN WAN.
POPULAR IN CHINA Swakara is a relatively well-known skin type in China, gaining ground on the Chinese fashion scene. Swakara has become popular among designers because of its beautiful way of interacting with light, which makes it a very nice material to work with.
Kevin Wan works with his father in the family-owned brokerage firm Dragon Fur Company Ltd., based in Hong Kong. However, he represented the Harbin-based firm
In tough competition, the Black Swakara Top Lot was sold for 1,280 DKK per skin, the White Swakara for 1,700 DKK per skin.
JOIN THE TOP LOT SOCIETY Winning the Kopenhagen Fur Top Lot, does not just get you the world’s most carefully crafted fur. You also become a member of an exclusive society. As a member of the Top Lot Society, you are a certified member with permission to use this seal of approval in your business and with your customers. Also, you are eligible to a bespoke package of activities and promotional materials tailored to advance your business and your brand. Buying a Kopenhagen Fur Top Lot shows the international fur trade your business’ commitment to pursue quality on behalf of your customers. This February, you can learn all about our new Top Lot package during the inspection and the auction. Please feel free to contact Kopenhagen Fur’s Marketing Department prior to or during the auction, if you have any questions about this new initiative.
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NEWS IN BRIEF KOPENHAGEN FUR AND THE ROYAL COUPLE VISITS JAPAN Their Royal Highnesses, The Crown Prince Frederik and The Crown Princess Mary, recently led a business and cultural promotion campaign in Japan with four ministers and 55 selected companies. The ministers were Anders Samuelsen, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ellen Trane Nørby, Minister of Health, Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister for Environment and Food and Minister for Culture, Mette Bock. Kopenhagen Fur was part of the business delegation travelling to Japan to strengthen trade relations and Denmark’s position in the country. Led by His Royal Highness, this was the largest Danish business delegation to promote Denmark in Japan. The reason for the campaign was the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the diplomatic ties between Denmark and Japan. FUR DESIGN PRESENTED IN TOKYO The official opening of the promotional campaign took place at the “Design Lounge” event at Hotel Gajoen in Tokyo, where Kopenhagen Fur participated together with 11 other Danish companies. CEO Jesper Uggerhøj, Kopenhagen Fur, greeted the delegation at a stand together with Kopenhagen Fur’s major
customer in Japan, Yoshitake Ninomiya (Noa Ltd.). Here, fur designs from Kopenhagen Fur Studio were presented to the delegation and Jesper Uggerhøj explained about Kopenhagen Fur’s cooperation with Mode Gakuen design university and Kopenhagen Fur’s ties with Japan in general. Jesper Uggerhøj also spoke about WelFur and Kopenhagen Fur’s involvement in all parts of the value chain on a design panel with CEO Christian Bason, Danish Design Centre, and CEO Jacob Holm, Fritz Hansen.
- Step one: Customers and buyers must register beforehand at www.kopenhagenfur.com or send an e-mail to customers@kopenhagenfur.com. Please inform us how many guests you are bringing or intend to bring. - Step two: Customers and buyers are also required to register at the main entrance upon arrival. Buyers’ registration – How to register to get your buyer number for the sales:
REMEMBER TO REGISTER Customers and buyers travelling from countries requiring a visa will benefit greatly from registering upon their arrival at Kopenhagen Fur.
Buyers arriving during inspection or sales are required to register by signing the Buyer’s Register form as early as possible in order to receive their buyer number sign and have seats allocated in the auction room. As registration may take some time, please register well in advance of the sales. On inspection days, registration takes place in the Customer Department.
Customers and Buyers - How to register: Registration at the auctions is a two-step process that is both quick and easy.
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On selling days, registration takes place at the Customer Service Counter in front of the auction room.
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SEALSKINS ARE NOW QUALITY LABELLED Garments carrying a Kopenhagen Fur quality label are made from fur skins that are unmatched in quality. Only skins sold through Kopenhagen Fur and graded by our graders can carry the Kopenhagen Fur quality label. Most skins sold through Kopenhagen Fur are mink skins, but Kopenhagen Fur’s quality labels extend equally to fox, chinchilla and swakara skins – and now also seal.
SORTING COURSES AT KOPENHAGEN FUR The Sorting and Auction Procedures Courses 2018 will take place:
22 JANUARY TO 6 FEBRUARY 2018
Our courses are well attended so please register early. This can be done at www.kopenhagenfur.com under the top menu Auction, buying skins, services at Kopenhagen Fur, Sorting courses. For further information, please contact the Customer Department. PHONE NO.: +45 4326 1440 FAX NO.: +45 4326 1449 E-MAIL: CUSTOMERS@KOPENHAGENFUR.COM
FOR CHINESE CUSTOMERS: E-MAIL ADDRESS WHEN APPLYING FOR VISA When requesting an invitation letter from Kopenhagen Fur in order to apply for a visa to visit Kopenhagen Fur’s auctions, please contact our Beijing Office at this e-mail address: VISA@KOPENHAGENFUR.CN.
2018 CALENDAR IS NOW AVAILABLE The 2018 calendar with the season’s auction dates will be available in the service counters.
KOPENHAGEN FUR HAS BEEN PART OF THE UN GLOBAL COMPACT SINCE 2011 AND CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE PRINCIPLES BEHIND IT. Kopenhagen Fur recently submitted its annual Communication on Progress report to the UN, reaffirming its commitment to continually improve the integration of the Global Compact guiding principles into the company’s business strategy, culture and daily operations.
KOPENHAGEN FUR REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO THE UN GLOBAL COMPACT
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The UN Global Compact is the world’s largest CSR initiative supported by approx. 10,000 companies worldwide. These companies obligate themselves to run their companies within the framework of the UN Global Compact’s 10 principles. This framework incorporates human rights, labour standards, environment and anticorruption. Kopenhagen Fur’s reports can be viewed on the UN Global Compact’s website.
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KOPENHAGEN FUR SPONSORS NEW PANDA HOUSING Two pandas lent by the Chinese government will become Copenhagen Zoo’s newest residents next year. Kopenhagen Fur is one of the sponsors of the Yin and Yang-inspired panda housing. BY LOUISE BOE
Chinese Ambassador Deng Ying and Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen as they cut the first turf in preparation for the coming panda home.
On a cold and rainy November day, Deng Ying, Chinese Ambassador in Denmark, and Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Danish Prime Minister cut the first turf of the new Yin and Yang-inspired panda housing in Copenhagen Zoo. A year from now, the panda housing will be ready for the two new residents to move in. The pandas are a diplomatic gift from China to mark the close relationship between Denmark and China. Lending out pandas is an old Chinese tradition. China is a very important market for Kopenhagen Fur, which is why we
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decided to join the sponsoring of the panda housing together with other large Danish companies such as Velux, Danfoss. - I don’t think that we Danes fully understand the importance of receiving these pandas. You have to consider that only a few countries are given this opportunity. So when Denmark receives two pandas it is because we have very close ties with China, which is important for Kopenhagen Fur, says Tage Pedersen, Chairman of the Board, Kopenhagen Fur. The panda housing has been designed by the world-famous Bjarke
Ingels Group architecture company BIG. Bjarke Ingels has designed the pandas’ future home inspired by the Chinese Yin and Yang symbol, which has caused quite a lot of attention in China. PANDA COUNTDOWN Mao Sun and He Xing are the names of the two pandas, which will arrive when their new home is ready by winter 2018. You might think that the Danish winter would be quite hard for the pandas, but they actually come from a similar climate in China. This means that the new panda
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THE PANDA HOUSING Copenhagen Zoo has designed the panda housing in collaboration with BIG Architects and Schønherr Landscape architects. The panda housing was inspired by the Chinese Yin and Yang symbol featuring a circular shape on different levels. Bjarke Ingels explained the ideas behind the panda housing at the panda ceremony in Copenhagen Zoo. - Even though the panda seems to be a peace-loving animal, which it is, it is also very solitary and needs its own space. Therefore, we had to make two separate habitats that come together as one unified panda habitat: One for him and one for her. To us, this sounded very much like Yin and Yang, so we created this circular habitat, said Bjarke Ingels.
housing will allow the pandas to roam freely between the outdoors and the indoors enclosures. A lot of preparations have been made for their arrival. Besides developing the new panda residence, the feeding of the pandas has been a challenging task. They both eat approx. 30 kilos of bamboo every day and are quite particular as to what kind of bamboo they will eat-normally only fresh bamboo. So, Copenhagen Zoo conducted extensive research that involved freezing and thawing the Chinese bamboo in different ways. The bamboo will be frozen during
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transport from China to Denmark and finally thawed at the zoo. After much research, the proper procedure was found, one that the pandas approved of.
At the panda ceremony the Danish Prime minister made it clear that he looks very much forward to the arrival of the new citizens.
PANDA FACTS: • Mao Sun, the female, was born on 26 July in 2014. ‘Sun’ means Bamboo from the bamboo-sort ‘Mao’. • He Xing, the male, was born on 23 July in 2013. ‘Xing’ means wealth and ‘He’ is the family name. • They come from Chengdu Panda Base located in China. • Pandas are able to begin breeding from the age of five, which is their age when moving to Copenhagen Zoo.
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NORWEGIAN TYPE FOX BRIMS WITH SCANDINAVIAN CRAFTSMANSHIP Kopenhagen Fur’s experts improve grading to bring out the natural quality of the fox. BY ETHAN KENT BILBY
A few hundred kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, snow already lines the roads where the Norwegian Type fox is being prepared for transport. The skins are on their way south to Kopenhagen Fur in Denmark, to be graded and offered for sale at the March auction. Bjarne Rasmussen, VP - Quality and Production, is putting the finishing touches on a new sorting method to prepare the fox skins for sale. - Our Norwegian Type collection will provide a better picture of what fox is than we might have seen in the last few years, says Bjarne Rasmussen, who is a global authority when it comes to skin quality, having worked with fur for 37 years. Carefully refined over more than a century, the Nordic pedigree of the fox gives its fur unrivalled lightness, with
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guard hairs that prick up like blades of grass from soft underwool. Now that Norwegian farmers have returned to the Danish auction, he is excited to improve the grading of fox so that customers can get a clearer choice when it comes to luxury quality. - Since we are just beginning to grade the Norwegian Type fox collection we have nothing to hold us back. We can tailor our scale to reflect the unique qualities of the fox, he says. CENTURY OF REFINEMENT Although the Norwegian Type includes many mutations and shades, from Arctic Marble to Blue Frost, for many it is synonymous with silver fox. - When we think about Norwegian Type silver fox, we look for silky glossy
guardhair, which is really its special feature, Rasmussen says. To grade silver fox, graders focus on a type, like long nap, and then judge skins in order of fur thickness, shade, quality, and clarity. Top quality Platinum skins feature all above-mentioned characteristics. All Norwegian Type silver foxes are the descendants of a single exemplary pair from Canada, brought over in 1914. They crossed the Atlantic by ship like celebrities, complete with their own guard and travelling first class. Yet it was the Norwegians who figured out how to crossbreed different fox types to produce a wide variety of colours and an exemplary quality. Fox stoles were in vogue in the 1930s, adding a touch of glamour to celebrities like Amelia Earhart, Sonja Henie and
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Quality grading; On 6 February, during the final day of inspection before our February auction, our customers are welcome to see the fox grading process.
Elizabeth Arden. Furthermore, the discovery of a rare platinum colour breed of Norwegian fox even set off a global style craze after Wallis Simpson (the Duchess of Windsor) was seen wearing it. At the time, a single skin of that type of platinum fox sold for roughly $87,000 in today’s currency. Norwegian Type consists of over 40 different colour classifications, each with their own unique variations and attractive distinctions. It takes a keen eye and experienced hand to identify the very best. MASTERS OF QUALITY GRADING - For customers, the most important thing is to know that our best quality includes only the top of the line, says Jesper Poulsen, International Sales
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Manager. - When they buy skins from us, they can be sure this is the case. Our emphasis on meeting customer expectations guides our process along every step of the way. All graders go through special courses, including one on how to grade fox, to ensure that skins are graded at a very high professional level and show off their natural characteristics. Quality control is taken seriously. Skins pass through redundant checks to make sure all grading is done consistently and accurately. - Our value add is that we focus a lot on what the customers want when we do the grading, because that will give better prices and the grading will be very strict according to the
Norwegian Type, says Louise Weile, Kopenhagen Fur’s Vice President of Farmer Relations. When skin grading is consistent like that at Kopenhagen Fur, customers can use every skin in a lot, getting the best value for money. - Before the show lots are put up for inspection, we always make a spot check. Although a show lot only consists of 7 skins representing the highest to the lowest quality, the boxes may represent 2,000 skins, he says. - If we decide that our grading should have been even more refined after checking those 7, we take out all the skins and sort them again, Bjarne Rasmussen explains. - We want the customers to get exactly what they are looking for.
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FUR AND THE OLYMPICS GO HAND IN HAND Winter and fur go hand in hand, but do the Winter Olympics have a close connection with Kopenhagen Fur? BY MICHAEL ABILON
role. We appreciate these partnerships where we match each other, she says. The Sports Confederation of Denmark, which unifies elite sport and sports associations, is equally pleased with the new partnership. - We are very pleased with the donation we receive from Kopenhagen Fur, because it will help us in our preparations for the Olympics. Hopefully, we can live up to the 15 medals we won at the games in Rio de Janeiro. The donation will be used to strengthen this, says CEO Morten Mølholm Hansen, Sports Confederation of Denmark.
The brief answer is: Yes. Kopenhagen Fur is the proud sponsor of the Danish athletes competing in the Winter Olympics in 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The sponsorship also extends to the Summer Olympics in 2020 in Tokyo, Japan, and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. With this sponsorship, Kopenhagen Fur aims to support Danish elite sports and the Danish athletes in the coming games, based on their strong performances in Rio de Janeiro. Furthermore, the sponsorship supports Kopenhagen Fur’s ambition to promote Kopenhagen Fur in various key markets in Asia. - I believe that we can achieve a lot with this sponsor agreement. We have previously sponsored organisations in Denmark, but we have never had any sponsor agreements abroad. We believe that it is a good idea to do it now with Team Danmark and the Sports Confederation of Denmark, because the
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next three Olympic Games will be held in key markets in South Korea, Japan and China, says Tage Pedersen, Chairman of the Board, Kopenhagen Fur. OPENING DOORS TO KEY MARKETS - No doubt, we will benefit from this agreement. We have sponsored the Danish athletes to support them in their preparations for the Olympics and we can invite customers to events centred around the Danish athletes. My ideal scenario is to introduce badminton world champion Viktor Axelsen at one of our auctions. He is very famous in China and he is only one of the Danish athletes. Lone Hansen, Director of Team Danmark, the government organisation that coordinates the overall planning of elite sport in Denmark, also believes that they are an excellent match with Kopenhagen Fur. - I am very pleased that we could make this partnership agreement with a major Danish company that is important for Denmark and plays an international
FACTS ABOUT THE OLYMPIC PARTNERSHIP With a common ambition to perform well in Asia, the National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark (DIF), Team Denmark and Kopenhagen Fur have concluded a multi-annual partnership. The partnership runs until the end of 2020 and includes the coming Winter Olympics in Seoul, South Korea in 2018 and the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan in 2020, and with an option to support the winter Olympics in Beijing, China as well. Kopenhagen Fur wishes to support Danish elite sport and the Danish athletes’ participation in the upcoming Olympics in view of the outstanding performances during the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The partnership includes sports events as well as training programmes for both customers, fur farmers and employees.
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SWAKARA SKINS In the world of fur, Swakara is the only skin type that can evoke images of a desert landscape as you look at the curls of the Namibian fur skins. At Kopenhagen Fur, furrier Sofie Odgaard Løvenstjerne recently finished a Swakara style as part of Kopenhagen Fur’s ongoing promotion of Swakara in cooperation with Namibian Swakara farmers.
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looking at their technique samples, carefully touching them. Her fascination became her driving force in her career. - I knew that I wanted to be an apprentice at Birger Christensen. I was focused on quality and wanted to learn the finest craftsmanship, she says. When asked, if one ever stops learning, she said laughing: -No. We are eight people here at Kopenhagen Fur Studio, and we basically have had the same training and, yet we are capable of different things. We work in different ways. Her focus on continuous learning means that she also looks to the past to learn about furrier craftsmanship.
- I feel that we all have that in common here. We want to learn from the traditional furriers. We want to explore lost knowledge and use it to develop ourselves. On 11 January, Designer Jørgen Simonsen will unveil this Swakara style at an Haute Couture show in Denmark. Jørgen Simonsen is an acclaimed Danish designer, who has created this unique Swakara style for his collection, Gadjo Manoush Inuit – Le New Look Néogroendlandais. A collection inspired by the Greenlandic Inuit culture and the indigenous Roma culture from Rajasthan, India, as well as French haute couture style from the 1950s.
A FEW SHORT ANSWERS FROM SOFIE: This latest Swakara style made by Kopenhagen Fur Studio will be unveiled on 11 January at Designer Jørgen Simonsen’s Haute Couture show in Denmark.
Sofie Odgaard Løvenstjerne is by no means a stranger to the fur trade. Her parents worked as farmers and she worked on their farm when she was young. She remembers vividly how she helped wrapping the drying boards in old newspapers in the pelting period. Sofie also accompanied her parents to skin exhibitions, where she became fascinated with fur as a material. She would stand by the furrier’s table at the international exhibition in Herning
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What inspires you? I like watching the world around me. I look at colours, textures, the way things are folded or cut everywhere. I might see a beautiful tweed jacket on a girl in the morning traffic and think: `It would be cool to make that with fox skins combined with fabrics in this and that way. Tell me a funny story about something that inspired you. I lived in Brussels a few years ago. I was at home and I saw a young girl in an exceptionally beautiful fur jacket. I tried to get it out of my head, but in a few minutes, I made a quick decision. Put on a pair of boots and ran after her and her friend. When I caught her on the street, she was quite surprised but also proud because I complimented her fur jacket. I’ve also tried it the other way around in Brussels, when a girl chased me down the street to ask me about my hat, which was made from blue fox.
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THE CUSTOMERS’ MAN ON THE PODIUM
In June 2018, Brian Tufvesson will celebrate 20 years as a member of the Kopenhagen Fur family. Since 2004, he has had a very close contact with customers through his job as Head of Customer Department. Brian Tufvesson believes in a positive synergy between his job as auctioneer and Head of Customer Department. BY LOUISE BOE
YOU BEGAN WORKING AS AN AUCTIONEER AT KOPENHAGEN FUR A YEAR AGO. WHY? I have been involved in the planning of the auctions for a long time and therefore I thought it might be fun to take the final step and become an auctioneer. When I began a year ago, I had the advantage of knowing many of the customers, not only by their buyer number, but also by name and face, because of my job as Head of Customer Department. My job gave me an advantage when starting in the new auctioneer role. WHAT DID YOU FIND ATTRACTIVE ABOUT THE JOB AS AN AUCTIONEER?
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To begin with, it was the five annual auctions and the close customer contact that I found interesting. Working with figures and book-keeping you easily end up at a computer, which is quite boring in the long-term perspective. Therefore, conducting an auction was the ultimate challenge for me. HOW DID YOU PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE JOB AS AUCTIONEER? I have been fortunate, because I attended a training course with the auctioneer team before I became an auctioneer myself, which was a really great experience for me.
Ultimately, you must believe in yourself when taking the big step onto the podium. WHAT HAS CHALLENGED YOU AS AUCTIONEER? It has been really important for me to have great colleagues by my side. Apart from that, it has been a challenge to get used to counting in English – and to counting correctly. When you count fast and point at the customers, at the same time as you are doing a thousand other things, you can quite easily make a mistake. Stupid mistakes. And that is okay as long as it does not happen often.
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YOU ACTUALLY PRACTISE COUNTING IN ENGLISH TO GET BETTER? Yes I do. At my first auction – I think it was during the February auction 2017 – I took a walk around Kopenhagen Fur counting in English to do my final rehearsal before going onto the podium. It is important that my technique is perfect, so I do not have to concentrate on counting when there is so much to keep track of in the auction room. WHAT CAN YOU USE FROM YOUR DAILY JOB AS HEAD OF CUSTOMER DEPARTMENT WHEN YOU ARE PERFORMING AS AN
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AUCTIONEER? It is definitely a positive thing that customers know me and respect me. They know that if they try any tricks on me, I have an authority that allows me to easily back out of a deal. Of course, they must also be able to talk to me after an auction. DO YOU HAVE AN EXAMPLE OF THIS, WHEN YOU COULD REALLY FEEL RESPECT FROM CUSTOMERS? No, I do not have an actual example. However, I think that customers were a little more patient with me during my first times on the podium than they would normally be
with a new auctioneer. HOW ABOUT THE OTHER WAY AROUND? WHAT CAN YOU USE FROM YOUR JOB AS AUCTIONEER IN YOUR DAILY WORK AS HEAD OF CUSTOMER DEPARTMENT? Normally, I sit in my office working with a lot of figures and I do not get the chance to be that much involved with skins. Obviously, learning about the different types of skins offered at Kopenhagen Fur gives you more respect from customers in my ‘main job.’ In that way, there is a per fect synergy between the t wo roles.
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EVENTS IN COPENHAGEN 2-11 FEBRUARY 2018 BALLET
SWAN LAKE
Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake is a timeless love story that mixes magic, tragedy, and romance into four acts. It features Prince Siegfried and a lovely swan princess named Odette. The ballet is performed by The Russian National Ballet with soloists from Moscow’s Bolsjoj Ballet and has 30 dancers on stage. OPERA
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
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In Martin Lyngbo’s interpretation, Il barbiere
〉FORUM
di Siviglia becomes a tale of empathy and
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humanity in an age of tyranny, where everyone has their own agenda. There will be chaos and love, vengeance and celebration, pride and shame, feast and failure accompanied by laughter, smiles, anger and irritation. This is an opportunity to see one of the great classics in new, festive attire. Il barbiere di Siviglia is performed in Italian with Danish subtitles. EXHIBITION
ALPHONSE MUCHA
〉3 AND 9 FEBRUARY
Plants, women and ornaments wind around one
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another in Mucha’s pictorial world. At this exhibition,
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Mucha’s art unfolds in all its breadth with painting, posters, advertisements, photographs, design, jewellery and interiors. In Mucha’s works, nature and the city, plants and humans, goodness and consumption all merge. EXHIBITION
〉3 FEBRUARY TO 3 JUNE 2018
PICASSO CERAMICS
〉ARKEN MUSEUM
A presentation of Pablo Picasso’s original
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ceramics marks the beginning of Louisiana’s 60th anniversary year. With more than 150 pieces it is the first major exhibition in
CONCERT
STARS OF MUSICALS
For 20 years, Stars of Musicals has enthused
Scandinavia focusing on this late and lesserknown – but highly imaginative – part of Picasso’s work.
the audience with their musical galla. Beautiful costumes, deep feelings and
In the late 1940’s, Picasso formed a steady
fantastic choreography merge together with
engagement with the Madoura workshop and
the Broadway Musical & Dance Company. You
moved to the south of France. There – alongside
will hear extracts from Aladdin, We Will Rock
his paintings, drawings, sculptures and graphic
You, Cats, Mamma Mia, Dirty Dancing, Evita,
works – he produces about 4,000 cera¬mic
Phantom of the Opera and many more.
objects.
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〉THE OPERA
〉LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
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NEW RECEPTION THIS SEASON The new reception at Kopenhagen Fur is in the final construction phase. There will be a new registration process when entering Kopenhagen Fur.
The reception is almost complete. In 2018, a new, quick registration method will be implemented. Customers will also notice our new exhibition
The brand-new reception area with more room for customers and guests will be ready this season. A new access control system will improve the security at Kopenhagen Fur. Therefore, customers will get a new access card when entering Kopenhagen Fur. - The new access control system makes it easier to keep track of who is entering Kopenhagen Fur. This is important to fulfil fire safety regulations, but it can also help us improve our services to customers and guests, because the overview will help us plan day-to-day activities during auctions, says Brian Tufvesson, Head of Customer Department. - The access card will be made very quickly, so customers will not have to wait long when arriving at Kopenhagen Fur, says Brian Tufvesson.
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STAY BY THE LAKE – IN COPENHAGEN CITY HOTEL KONG ARTHUR - a home away from home while you are in Copenhagen. Relax in our spa, enjoy a cozy hour by the fireplace, indulge your taste buds in one of our three restaurants. Choose among high-class sushi, tapas, and a menu of Italian classics. For breakfast both hotels feature a mostly organic buffet spread that follows the New Nordic principles, concentrating on seasonal, sustainable and local produce.
BOOK BEFORE 18/01/18
Get your early bird discount of 15% Double rooms, rates from DKK 1175 Yourneprice from: DKK 999 incl. breakfast gative Book through Kopenhagen Fur Call tel: +45 4326 1280 Email: reception@kopenhagenfur.com
SERVICES ■ Complementary wine hour ■ Tea & coffee at your room ■ 3 restaurants ■ A large spa and massage specialists TRANSPORT by Nørreport station ■ Car park right outside ■ Green Mobility available by the frontdoor ■ Close
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CHANGING OUR QUALITY ASSESSMENT TO BENEFIT OUR CUSTOMERS Our continued effort to accommodate our customers’ needs means that Kopenhagen Fur will change its quality grading in the 2018 season. BY MICHAEL ABILON
After many years of quality breeding work, Kopenhagen Fur’s many skilled farmers are now able to produce more Purple Quality Velvet skins. This fact, coupled with our customers’ demand for larger, homogenous collections, means that it is time for Kopenhagen Fur to re-evaluate its grading. For some years now, Kopenhagen Fur has graded Velvet skins in four qualities: Purple, Platinum, Burgundy, Ivory. The majority of skins has been graded as Platinum and Burgundy. This season, we will be updating our grading criteria, so that a greater emphasis is placed on the quality of the underwool and also expand the offering of skins in Purple quality. Kopenhagen Fur’s
experienced skin graders, strict quality control and continuous quality assessment will ensure that the correct skins end up in the correct qualities. HARDWORKING QUALITY CONTROL - Today, there are considerably more high-quality skins than previously and, since our customers demand larger and more homogenous collections, we expect that this will be well-received. Also, a larger Purple collection will make it possible for our customers to create a broader and more efficient marketing of Purple Quality skins, says Bjarne Rasmussen, VP Production and Quality at Kopenhagen Fur. All in all, customers at Kopenhagen Fur will notice a larger Purple collection and a
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slightly smaller Platinum collection; a large Burgundy collection and an unchanged Ivory collection. - Our skilled graders and quality control will work hard to ensure that the correct skins are placed in the correct qualities, when the distinction is made between Purple and Platinum as well as between Platinum and Burgundy, says Bjarne Rasmussen. This applies to Kopenhagen Fur’s Velvet collection. In the Classic collection, three qualities remain, but slightly adjusted. In 2018, Classic will be sorted as either: Platinum, Burgundy or Ivory in Quality II and longhaired skins will be sorted as either Burgundy or Quality II.
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AUCTION SCHEDULE AND OFFERING 2018
INSPECTION SELLING DAYS
FEBRUARY 2-6 7-12
MARCH 10-16 17-23
MAY 26 APRIL-1MAY 2-9
JUNE 14-21 22-1 JULY
SEPTEMBER 25 AUGUST -1 SEPTEMBER 2-11
MINK
Black • • • Brown • • • • • Mahogany • • • • • Pastel • • Pearl Beige • • • • • Golden Pearl • • Silverblue • • • • • Sapphire • • • Violet • Palomino • • • • • White • • • • • Blue Cross • • • • • Red Cross • • Black Cross • • • • • Var. Cross • Redglow • • Blue Iris • Jaguar • Stardust • Var. Mutations • OTHER SKINS Chinchilla • • • • Rex rabbit • Foxes • • Swakara • Seal skins • •
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Breeders and Breeders Lowgrades will be offered in June in the types and sizes where regular winterskins are also available. We reserve the right to make changes.
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HOTEL KONG ARTHUR
COURTYARDS IBSENS HOTEL
VIVACIOUS, qUIRKY AND COmFORTABLE BOUTIqUE HOTELS IN COPENHAGEN Ibsens and Kong Arthur are a blend of old and new: The interior design are modern, but the original character of the old buildings are beautifully preserved. There’s a buzzy lounge/bar area, and outside seating in the courtyard. Hotel Kong Arthur has a spa and fitness room. Two in-house restaurants are serving both hotels – Pintxos, serving up good tapas, and the more upmarket La Rocca, with a menu of Italian classics. For breakfast both hotels feature a mostly organic buffet spread that follows New Nordic principles, concentrating on seasonal, sustainable and local produce. Book through Kopenhagen Fur. 28
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COPENHAGEN HOTELS
COPENHAGEN ISLAND
TIVOLI HOTEL
Kalvebod Brygge 53, 1560
Arni Magnussons Gade 2,
København V
1577 København
www.arp-hansen.dk
www.arp-hansen.dk
ADMIRAL
RADISSON BLU ROYAL
Toldbodgade 24,
Hammerichsgade
1253 K
1611 V
www.admiralhotel.dk
www.radissonblu.com
CROWN PLAZA HOTEL
RADISSON BLU
Ørestads Blvd. 114-118,
Amager Blv. 70,
2300 S
2300 S
www.crowneplaza.com
www.radissonblu.com
HILTON
SCANDIC CPH
Ellehammersvej 20,
Vester Søgade 6,
2770 Kastrup
1601 V
www3.hilton.com
www.scandichotels.com
FIRST
SCANDIC GLOSTRUP
Vesterbrogade 23-29,
Roskildevej 550,
1620 V
2600 Glostrup
www.firsthotels.com
www.scandichotels.com
GLOSTRUP PARK
SCANDIC HVIDOVRE
Hovedvejen 41,
Kettevej 4.
2600 Glostrup
2650 Hvidovre
www.parkhotel.dk
www.scandichotels.com
MARRIOTT
SKT. PETRI - 5 STARS
Kalvebod Brygge 5,
Krystalgade 22,
1560 V
1172 K
www.marriott.com
www.firsthotels.com
MAYFAIR HOTEL
BELLA SKY COMWELL
Helgolandsgade 3,
Center Boulevard 5,
1653 V
2300 S
www.clarionhotel.com
www.bellaskycomwell.com
SCANDINAVIA
NEW cancellation policy for 2018 : For individual reservations you can change or cancel 48 hours prior to arrival, or you will be charged with the first night. For group reservations : Until 45 days before the first arrival, the reservation can be cancelled without any cost. After this date a maximum of 50% of the original reservation can be cancelled after the below mentioned rules: - Until 15 days before the first arrival, 50 % of the original reservation can be cancelled without any cost - Until 10 days before the first arrival, 25 % of the original reservation can be cancelled without any cost - Rooms not cancelled seven days before the first arrival will be charged 100 % Date changes will be accepted without any cost on the condition that the hotel has available rooms on the alternative dates. If the rooms, as a result of lack of available rooms, are cancelled, the hotel refers to the above listed cancellation terms.
We urge you to make your hotel reservations as early as possible.
CONTACT KOPENHAGEN FUR
E-MAIL: MAIL@KOPENHAGENFUR.COM PHONE: +45 4326 1000 FA X: +45 4326 1126
MANAGEMENT
IOE@KOPENHAGENFUR.COM JESPER UGGERHØJ CEO +45 4326 1042 (SECR.)
JESPER LAUGE CHRISTENSEN EXEC. V.P. COMMERCIAL + 45 4326 1207
INGE ØSTERMAND SECRETARY +45 4326 1042
QUALITY DEPARTMENT
CUSTOMER DEPARTMENT
QUALITYDEPARTMENT @KOPENHAGENFUR.COM
CUSTOMERS@KOPENHAGENFUR.COM BRIAN TUFVESSON HE AD OF CUSTOMER DEPT.
BIRGIT FRIIS SECRETARY
+45 4326 1401 ANNETTE HINDBORG KE Y ACCOUNT MANAGER +45 4326 1440
KIM BARUEL ERICHSEN QUALIT Y MANAGER
+45 4326 1431
CHRISTIANE RAUTENBERG KE Y ACCOUNT MANAGER +45 4326 1442
+ 45 4326 1310
ANNE LUNN KE Y ACCOUNT MANAGER
AHMET AYDIN KE Y ACCOUNT MANAGER
LONE LYHNE TECHNICAL QUALIT Y MANAGER
+45 4326 1443
+45 4326 1441
+45 2268 0991
LOUISE HEIMANN KE Y ACCOUNT MANAGER +45 7213 5028
AUCTIONEERS PAUL PEDERSEN CHIEF AUCTIONEER
PER KNUDSEN CHIEF AUCTIONEER
+45 4326 1203
+45 4326 1208
STIG REINHOLD SALES MANAGER, AUCTIONEER
KLAUS HARLEV AUCTIONEER
+45 4326 1209
+45 4326 1415
KASPER S. REINBACHER VP, INTERNATIONAL SALES +45 4326 1422
LARS SKJOLDEGA ARD AUCTIONEER +45 4326 1021
BEIJING OFFICE CHRIS CUI PRESIDENT OF KOPENHAGEN FUR CHINA
LISA YU CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
MOB.+86 139 1093 7964
MOB.+86 139 1156 8019
VIOLETTE ZHANG HEAD OF COMMUNICATION
JAMES HAN HEAD OF LOGISTIC
MOB.+86 186 1830 1827
MOB.+86 136 9367 8524
ANDY CHEN HEAD OF ADMINISTRATION AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MOB.+86 159 0143 7370
FELIX YAN HEAD OF SALES AND MARKETING MOB.+86 186 1006 6081
KOPENHAGEN FUR STUDIO
MARKETING
JULIE MARIA IVERSEN VP, DESIGN & CREATIVITY
HENRIETTE GLÆSEL VP, MARKETING
+45 2268 0974
+ 45 2476 9177
AREA MANAGERS
RECEPTION/BOOKING
RECEPTION@KOPENHAGENFUR.COM
ANDREJ RUMJANCEV ARE A MANAGER, RUSSIA
K ATHRINE ENGBERG FRONT OFFICE MANAGER
+45 4326 1103
+45 4326 1112
LEO BOUTIS AREA MANAGER, GREECE
LINE JENSEN RECEPTIONIST
MOB. +30 693 242 5858
+45 4326 1280
GLOBAL FUR LOGISTICS
SHIPPING@KOPENHAGENFUR.COM SØREN VALENTIN COO & EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
CHRISTIAN SANDER VICE PRESIDENT, SUPPLY CHAIN
+45 2268 0920
+45 2795 7057
LINE SPANG SHIPPING MANAGER
KARINA KJÆR NIELSEN SHIPPING COORDINATOR
+45 4326 1472
+45 7213 2845
NINA AGERLIN BURCHARD SHIPPING COORDINATOR +45 7213 2842
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MICHAEL LEPSKI
JACK FELBER
Infelber (Exports) Ltd 4 Elthorne Road, London N19 4AG Tel +44(20) - 7281 1966
E-mail info@infelber.com
Fax +44(20) - 7281 2398
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