Nouveaux membres
New company member: VELUX Group
It is an honour for the Danish-French Chamber to welcome in our network the iconic Danish company: VELUX Group.
For more than 80 years, roof windows from the VELUX Group have created better indoor environments by bringing daylight and fresh air into homes and other buildings all over the world. The VELUX Group was founded in Denmark and is today a global company with sales and manufacturing operations in 37 countries and around 11,900 employees worldwide. VELUX offers a range of products including roof windows and modular skylights, decorative blinds, sun screening products, and roller shutters, as well as installation and smart home solutions. Discover more about the VELUX Group below:
Our purpose
The VELUX Group's purpose is: To create well-being for people and planet by transforming spaces using daylight and fresh air. To ‘create well-being’, in the broadest sense, is why we exist. That means health to people, but it also means creating compelling and desirable indoor spaces where people can comfortably live, work and play. ‘People and planet’ honours our commitment to sustainability, and ‘daylight and fresh air’ captures the most important aspects of the value we deliver to our customers.
Creating bright spaces since 1941
The VELUX story began in 1941 with our founder Villum Kann Rasmussen’s simple idea of transforming unused dark attics into bright liveable spaces filled with daylight and fresh air. Our name is a combination of ‘VE’, short for ventilation and ‘LUX’, Latin for light – VELUX. Our founder’s innovative vision took VELUX from a single order for 12 roof windows for a school in Denmark to one of the world’s most renowned suppliers of building materials with manufacturing and sales operations in 37 countries.
Healthy buildings focus
At VELUX Group, we wish to lead the change towards healthier and more sustainable buildings. We believe that a healthy and sustainable home must be designed for people, for increased energy efficiency and with respect for the environment.
The Model Company Objective
The way we do business is aptly defined in our Model Company Objective, which our founder Villum Kann Rasmussen formulated in 1965. With the Model Company Objective, we aim to set a positive example through our behaviour. It guides how we respectfully engage with the people we work with, defines how we give back to the societies we operate in and sets the direction for how we responsibly work with scarce natural resources. Finally, by Model Company, we mean a company working with products that are useful to society. Our products, which provide natural light and fresh air through the roof help create healthy and comfortable indoor environments.
Discover more about the VELUX Group on their website by clicking here.
