Located north of Germany and west of Sweden, it possesses a first class distribution infrastructure, excellent telecommunications, high quality nationwide highways and rail networks, and airports accessible from all population centers. The capital of Copenhagen is ideally situated as a transit point into the Baltic. Unlike most industrial nations, Denmark's industrial development is not linked to the occurrence of raw materials. Besides food processing, Danish industry is largely made up of light manufacturing and value-added processing. Industrial production is highly automated and predominantly specialized high-value items with an advanced technological content.
Most companies are small and medium-sized.
Only 915 manufacturing companies have more than 100 employees. Very few Danish companies are very large on a world-wide scale. With a home market of only 5.3. million, Denmark has a long history as an exporting and international trade nation. Consequently, industry at all levels operates at a very high degree of automation, from design concept to production, handling and servicing. This made Denmark one of the most intensive users of Electronic Data Processing at a very early stage and today, Denmark may be described as fully computerized.