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Fortune
Ryan Hogg

Danish town where Ozempic is made has highest rates of overweight children in Denmark

Many hundred of spectators watch Queen Margrethe of Denmark while the Royal Guard takes her through the city of Kalundborg in a coach during her visit to the city where she commence a two days visit on June 13, 2017 in Kalundborg, Denmark. (Credit: Ole Jensen - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Novo Nordisk has become Europe’s most valuable company due to soaring demand for its weight-loss-aiding drugs Wegovy, Semaglutide, and Ozempic. But as the effective backbone of the Danish economy goes from strength to strength, it now faces the daunting task of making sure the country’s residents aren’t left behind.

Novo Nordisk has had a major factory in Kalundborg, about an hour outside the Danish capital of Copenhagen, for 55 years.

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