Who owns Royal Copenhagen?
Royal Copenhagen is owned by Fiskars Group (Finland, Nasdaq Helsinki: FSKRS), which has owned the brand since 2013.[1][2][3][4]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Fiskars Group Annual Report 2025, Fiskars Oyj Abp, 16 February 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Fiskars Oyj Abp reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇫🇮 Finland, Espoo
- Origin
- 🇩🇰 Denmark
- Founded
- 1775
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Furniture & furnishings › Cookware & tableware
- Parent ticker
- Nasdaq Helsinki: FSKRS
- Last verified
- · 4 sources
About Royal Copenhagen
Royal Copenhagen was founded in 1775 and is the Scandinavian leader in hand-painted porcelain, known everywhere for blue on white. Its Blue Fluted Plain pattern, also called Pattern No. 1, has been in uninterrupted production since the company began, and a single dinner plate takes 762 individual brush strokes. Fiskars agreed in December 2012 to buy it from Royal Scandinavia, controlled by the Danish private equity group Axcel, for DKK 490 million, and completed the purchase in 2013.
Ownership timeline of Royal Copenhagen
- 2013 – present Fiskars Group [1][2][3][4] reported
Where Royal Copenhagen sits in Fiskars Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Fiskars Group
Fiskars Group controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 12 of them in home, garden & diy.
Also in home, garden & diy
Other brands in cookware & tableware, and who owns them
Fiskars Group has more brands in cookware & tableware on Brandtree than any other owner: 10 of 42.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Fitz and Floyd | Lifetime Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Nambé | Portmeirion Group | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Ballarini | ZWILLING | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Chicago Cutlery | Corelle Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Duni | Duni Group | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Bordallo Pinheiro | NCFGEST | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
| like. by Villeroy & Boch | Villeroy & Boch | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Mark and Graham | Williams-Sonoma | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Fiskars Group
Fiskars Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Espoo, Finland, founded in 1649. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as Nasdaq Helsinki: FSKRS.
Fiskars Group is a Finnish consumer goods company that carries the 1649 founding date of the Fiskars ironworks it grew out of. It runs two operationally independent business areas: Vita, which sells tableware, drinkware, jewellery and interior products under Georg Jensen, Royal Copenhagen, Wedgwood, Iittala, Moomin Arabia and Waterford, and Fiskars, which covers gardening, outdoor, scissors and cooking under the Fiskars and Gerber names. Net sales were EUR 1,140.2 million in 2025, of which Vita was about 54 per cent, and it employed roughly 6,600 people across 29 countries. The parent company is domiciled in Raseborg with its registered address in Espoo, and its single share series trades on Nasdaq Helsinki.
Fiskars Group: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇩🇰 Royal Copenhagen and other Danish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 106 brands that began in Denmark. 27 of them (25%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Royal Copenhagen among them.
- BR — Salling Group 🇩🇰
- Bang & Olufsen — Bang & Olufsen 🇩🇰
- BlueParrott — GN Group 🇩🇰
- Davidsen — Kesko 🇫🇮
- HAY — MillerKnoll 🇺🇸
- 3-Stjernet — Atria 🇫🇮
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Royal Copenhagen?
The parent company of Royal Copenhagen is Fiskars Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in Finland.
Is Royal Copenhagen Danish or Finnish?
Royal Copenhagen originated in Denmark in 1775, but it is owned today by Fiskars Group, which is headquartered in Finland. So Royal Copenhagen is a Danish-origin brand under Finnish ownership.
Since when has Fiskars Group owned Royal Copenhagen?
Fiskars Group has owned Royal Copenhagen since 2013.
Is Royal Copenhagen still owned by Fiskars Group?
Yes. As of 24 September 2026, Royal Copenhagen is still owned by Fiskars Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (4) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Fiskars Group Annual Report 2025 — Fiskars Oyj Abp, Annual report, published 16 February 2026; retrieved 24 September 2026.
- [2] Fiskars Group — brands: Royal Copenhagen — Fiskars Oyj Abp, Official document; retrieved 24 September 2026.
- [3] Fiskars acquires Royal Copenhagen, creating a consolidated portfolio of leading Scandinavian design brands — Fiskars Oyj Abp, Official press release, published 12 December 2012; retrieved 24 September 2026.
- [4] Fiskars Group — Our story — Fiskars Oyj Abp, Official document; retrieved 24 September 2026.
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