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K.Larsen

K. Larsen is a Danish-founded farm in the Alentejo: Dorte and Karsten Larsen left Denmark for Portugal in 1982 and, according to the company, farm a 560-hectare estate, Monte das Oliveiras at Salvada near Beja, with 220 hectares of olive groves. Their extra-virgin olive oil is sold in Denmark through Salling in Aarhus, most MENY supermarkets and specialist food shops, and the farm also grows baby beetroot for the UK market, malting barley, poppies and rapeseed for biodiesel.

Headquarters: Monte das Oliveiras, Salvada, Beja (Alentejo)

Founders: Dorte and Karsten Larsen, who moved from Denmark to Portugal in 1982

Estate: 560 hectares, of which 220 hectares are olive groves

Portuguese entity: K. Larsen – Transformação e Comercialização de Produtos Agrícolas, Lda (NIF 506503224); share capital €20,000

Products: Extra-virgin olive oil, baby beetroot, malting barley, poppies, rapeseed for biodiesel

Danish sales channels: Salling (Aarhus), most MENY stores, delis and wine shops; supplier to Saltoftehus, Sortebro Kro and Kragerup Gods

Sector: Agriculture & Food

Direction: Nordic → Portugal

Corridor footprint

The operating company is K. Larsen – Transformação e Comercialização de Produtos Agrícolas, Lda (NIF 506503224), a private limited company with €20,000 of share capital registered at Monte das Oliveiras, Beja. Its registered object covers the production, processing, marketing and promotion of agricultural and livestock products on owned or leased land, together with farm-management and agricultural services ranging from soil preparation and sowing to crop protection, harvesting, irrigation and machinery hire with operator. On its 560-hectare estate at Salvada, the farm grows 220 hectares of olives for extra-virgin oil alongside malting barley, poppies, rapeseed for biodiesel and baby beetroot, and keeps pasture for Dorte Larsen’s Lusitano horses.

The Larsens say they have grown fresh beetroot for the English market for 25 years, which built the traceability systems now applied across all their crops. The olive oil is cold-pressed and sold in Denmark as a gourmet extra-virgin oil, with published analyses showing acidity below 0.2%. Danish stockists named by the company include Salling in Aarhus, most MENY stores, and specialist shops such as Kresten Bergsøe in Farum, Kræmmerhus in Slagelse and Næstved, Vin Fra Frankrig in Hillerød and Osteknuden in Roskilde, while restaurants and estates including Saltoftehus, Sortebro Kro in Odense and Kragerup Gods buy it as suppliers. The story has been covered by Danish media including DR, Fæmilie Journal and Fødevarefokus.

Why this matters for the corridor

K. Larsen is one of the longest-running examples of Danish farming know-how applied on Portuguese land: a family that moved south in 1982, built a mixed arable and olive operation in Baixo Alentejo, and now sells an Alentejo product under a Danish name directly into Danish supermarkets and kitchens. As irrigation from Alqueva has turned the Beja plains into one of Europe’s main olive regions, it shows how the corridor works in both directions at once — Nordic capital and management in Portugal, Portuguese produce on Nordic shelves.

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