Talk:Novozymes

Guidance requested - 04-02-2014
Dear Wikipedia Editors,

My name is Fred at Novozymes, and, as per my user page, I have established an account in order to help further develop Novozymes’ article on Wikipedia – in line with Wikipedia standards and guidelines.

The Novozymes article is currently tagged. As such, I would like to offer my support to further develop the article so that it is in line with Wikipedia’s standards and guidelines. At this stage, I have reached out to Pdcook, who originally tagged the Novozymes article, asking for a bit of guidance as for how the community, including myself, can help bring the article in compliance. I have currently awaited an answer for more than 48 hours, which is why I have decided to reach out to the broader editor community instead.

Could I kindly ask editors to provide a bit of guidance as for how the Novozymes article can be further developed so that it is in line with Wikipedia standards and guidelines?

With many thanks, and kind regards,

Fred at Novozymes (talk) 13:43, 4 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for being upfront about your affiliation with the subject. First and foremost, I'd recommend you read the information at Conflict of interest and Best practice for COI editors, which will help you avoid coming into conflict with Wikipedia over the article's content.
 * As far as sprucing up the article is concerned, there are a couple of key areas to address. Firstly, the sourcing is very weak. Wikipedia prefers secondary, independent sources to primary ones, and requires in-depth coverage in those sources. If you can verify some of the material on the page by citing newspapers, magazines, books or reliable, unaffiliated websites, that would be a substantial improvement. See this essay for a basic outline of how to format citations.
 * Secondly, the content needs expansion; areas you could consider might include business practices, major competitors, any well-reported controversies, business model, locations, stock valuation and directors/executives (especially if they are notable in their own right). See WikiProject Companies/Guidelines for more ideas. As will all Wikipedia content, anything you add will need to be sourced.
 * Most importantly, bear in mind that this is not a page for you to tell the world about your company; it is an article designed to aggregate existing information that would be of interest to a reader of the encyclopedia. If a fact about the company hasn't been published somewhere else, it doesn't belong here.
 * I hope this is helpful. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  14:21, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Lead section edit requested - 28-04-2014
As per various correspondences with Matticusmadness and Yunshui, I am hereby suggesting a new lead section to ensure this article will move into compliance with Wikipedia standards and guidelines.

As per my user page, my account was established in order to help further develop Novozymes’ articles on Wikipedia – in line with Wikipedia standards and guidelines.

With many thanks, and kind regards,

Fred at Novozymes (talk) 23:48, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

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Novozymes is a global biotechnology company headquartered in Bagsværd outside of Copenhagen, Denmark employing approximately 6,300 people by the end of 2013. The company has operations in a number of countries around the world, including China, India, Brazil, Argentina, England, the United States, and Canada.

The company’s focus is the research, development and production of industrial enzymes, microorganisms, and biopharmaceutical ingredients. As of 2013, the company holds an estimated 48% of the global enzyme market, making it the world’s largest producer of industrial enzymes.

Novozymes was founded in 2000 in a demerger from pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, although its roots date back to the 1920s when Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium and Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium were established in Copenhagen. Its B shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic.

The company itself labels its core work as “bioinnovation”, with the intention to use biotechnology to develop more sustainable solutions towards industries such as agriculture, bioenergy, household care, textiles, and the pharmaceutical industry. In January 2014, Novozymes was ranked the most sustainable company in the biotechnology sector in The Sustainability Yearbook 2014 for the fifth year in a row. In 2009, Forbes included Novozymes as one of 100 corporations that will survive 100 years. In 2012, Novozymes was placed fourth in Corporate Knights’ Global 100 ranking of the world’s most sustainable corporations.

Novozymes is a partner of and a supplier to companies such as Procter & Gamble, which in 2013 awarded Novozymes their Business Partner of the Year for the sixth time, and Henkel, which in 2013 awarded Novozymes the Henkel Innovation Award. Other partners and customers include Unilever, Cargill, Beta Renewables, and Archer Daniels Midland.

Lead section edit requested - 19-05-2014
As per below, requesting again for editors to take a look at the below suggestion as for a new lead section to ensure this article will move into compliance with Wikipedia standards and guidelines.

Fred at Novozymes (talk) 13:05, 19 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I'll work on this over the next week. Article needs a bunch of work.   Fred, please be aware that as per WP:LEAD, nothing goes into the lead that is not in the body.  But I can work with what you have provided.   Some of it is fluff and I won't be using, but much is useful.   Would you mind providing:
 * reference for the most recent annual report
 * updates to the statistics in the infotable
 * references for the information currently in the History section? Some of that is great stuff, but needs to be sourced or needs to go.
 * Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 03:40, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

@Jytdog - Got it; will do ASAP. Please let me know if you need anything else from my end? Thanks. Fred at Novozymes (talk) 19:02, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

@Jytdog - Here you go:
 * Reference for the most recent annual report can be found via reference nr. 1 in the table above ("The Novozymes Report 2013")
 * Updates to statistics in the infotable (all data can be found in "The Novozymes Report 2013"):
 * Products: Enzymes, microorganisms, biopharmaceutical ingredients
 * Sales (2013): 11,746 DKK million
 * Operating Profit/EBIT (2013): 2,901 DKK million
 * Net Profit (2013): 2,201 DKK million
 * Employees (2013): 6,236
 * Company pictures to potentially accompany the infotable can be found here: http://novozymes.com/en/news/image/Pages/default.aspx
 * References for the information currently in the History section can be found here: http://www.novozymes.com/en/about-us/facts-about-Novozymes/Novozymes-history/Pages/default.aspx

Fred at Novozymes (talk) 23:14, 1 July 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ I finally did this update.  Sorry it took so long!! Jytdog (talk)
 * @Jytdog Many thanks; appreciated that this article could be moved into compliance, while increasing quality. May I suggest additional input? Basically, I would be happy to continue to help make this article stronger for the Wikipedia community. Also, could I kindly request you to update the Danish article too - https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novozymes - with just the latest facts? The current ones are from 2011... Many thanks. Fred at Novozymes (talk) 15:20, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

sure please feel free to ping me with future updates. There was some fairly promotional matter in your original proposal (e.g. contractor awards) - that kind of stuff is not really WP:NOTABLE and it will save us both time if you leave that out going forward. Novozymes has done lots of great stuff that has been reported in independent sources - please focus on that kind of material. As for the Danish Wikipedia site, I don't speak Danish and hesitate to mess around in a language I don't understand. Finally, the set of pages on your website with images is great, but those images cannot be used in Wikipedia unless they are available under explicitly free copyright licenses. Novozymes' options are 1) upload them to Wikimedia yourself and grant the license while you do that (more information here) - if you do that, you can just post links to the uploaded files here on Talk, for us to add to the article if they make sense; or b) post a free-use license on your website, where the images are. Then other people like me can download them, and upload them to Wikimedia per 1).  But as it stands, the bottom of every page where the images are, has a "copyright all rights reserved" notice on the bottom, which means we cannot use the images here.  WP is very strict about copyright as there is legal liability.   Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 15:32, 1 September 2014 (UTC) @Jytdog - Here you go: A first picture (Novozymes HQ) under a free-use license, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Novozymes_Bagsvaerd,_Copenhagen_HQ.jpg Fred at Novozymes (talk) 10:34, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ Jytdog (talk) 11:57, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Facts section update/edit requested - 20-01-2015
@Jytdog Hi - hope all is well; Happy New Year. Could I kindly ask you to update the financial numbers, as the annual results came out today? Everything can be found here: http://report2014.novozymes.com/. Also, how can I be of help increasing further the quality of this article? This needs to become an example to follow for other companies out there! Thanks! Fred at Novozymes (talk) 20:53, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Fred. It is actually fine for you to make straightforward, noncontroversial updates to facts like that in the article. With regard to additional content, I think it might be interesting and reasonable to have content on key products, especially if any of them are or were real breakthroughs.  But anything source-able in independent, reliable sources would be fair game. (see BASF and Biogen Idec.. you could look at Codexis but that is a bad article. Jytdog (talk) 22:25, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅@Jytdog As such, I will look to update the article with these noncontroversial facts today. As for technologies and products, may I share some descriptions, with reliable sourcing, with you here for you to take a look at and potentially include? Fred at Novozymes (talk) 12:29, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * yes please do feel free to present draft content here. i will be checking your edits to the article to ensure they are simple/factual only.  Please do exercise self-restraint.  Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 12:36, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * That's super; thanks for checking the edits! I will share some content here soon. Fred at Novozymes (talk) 13:00, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * great, you did just what you said would do. looking forward to seeing what you can come up with about products. Jytdog (talk) 13:06, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Logo update requested - 11-05-2015
@Jytdog Hi - hope all is well. Last week, Novozymes refreshed its brand, including logo (http://brandguide.novozymes.com). Could I kindly suggest an update of the logo on this article? Many thanks. Fred at Novozymes (talk) 09:55, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
 * no need to "yell" by making section headers bold, Fred. :) If you upload the logo with appropriate permissions and post notice of that here, we can update it. Jytdog (talk) 13:13, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
 * @Jytdog Hi! Didn't realize you were yelling by making section headers bold:-) Sorry about that! Here is the link to the new logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Novozymes_Primary_Logo_-_September_2015.png. Much thanks! Fred at Novozymes (talk) 08:11, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
 * @Jytdog Hi - sorry to be a bit pushy, but just been notified that the image will soon be deleted, as it is yet to be used as part of an article. Grateful if you could look to update it; much thanks! Fred at Novozymes (talk) 13:31, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
 * you can go ahead and do the update. thanks for checking in! Jytdog (talk) 20:09, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
 * @Jytdog Thanks - done. Can you perhaps take a quick look at it? Does it appear a bit strange now? Also, will you handle the bot notification as for the file's potential deletion? Not sure I am allowed to do that either... Thanks v much! Fred at Novozymes (talk) 23:22, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Facts section update/edit requested - 27-02-2016
@Jytdog Hi - hope all is well. Just to let you know that I will go ahead updating the facts section with the most recent company numbers from the annual report; please confirm that this is OK? Many thanks. Fred at Novozymes (talk) 12:44, 17 February 2016 (UTC)