What Frederiksborg Brand & Redning does

Frederiksborg Brand & Redning (FBBR) is a Danish municipal emergency services organization established on January 1, 2016, structured as a §60-selskab (a municipal shared-services company) under Danish law and jointly owned by five municipalities in the Frederiksborg region: Egedal, Frederikssund, Furesø, Halsnæs, and Hillerød. Its statutory mandate under the Beredskabsloven (Emergency Preparedness Act) is to deliver rapid emergency response to fires, accidents, storms, floods, and environmental incidents, supplemented by preventive fire inspections, fire safety education, and training in first aid and firefighting. Operations are delivered through a network of 11 fire stations (one full-time station with an HSE quick-extinguishing unit and Service and Logistics Center in Hillerød, plus ten part-time stations including Farum, Frederiksværk, Hundested, Jægerspris, Skibby, Slangerup, Stenløse, and Frederikssund, plus Station Holmen as a voluntary supplementary emergency service), staffed by a combination of full-time personnel (78 employees per firmographic data), approximately 100+ part-time firefighters, and volunteers. The full-time HSE unit alone deploys ~600 times annually and the full network responds to over 1,300 emergency calls per year.

The underlying technology footprint is operational rather than digital: physical stations, fire trucks, rescue vessels, turntable ladders, a SAR boat, an RDC craft, plus specialized equipment (smoke-diving apparatus, hoses, masks) maintained in the central Service and Logistics Center. A drone capability at Station Holmen supports fire operations and personnel search. Alarm transmission is handled via a partnership with Hovedstadens Beredskab, which serves as the central vagtcentral (alarm center), and the Hillerød facility is co-located with Falck under a shared-infrastructure arrangement with Region Hovedstaden. Auxiliary systems include Automatic Fire Alarm (ABA) administration, fire hydrant maintenance, locking-system supplier coordination (BIREPO A/S, TECO BRAND & SIKRING), and a youth Brandkadet program run jointly with local ungdomsskoler.

FBBR's business model is overwhelmingly municipal: primary funding flows from the five owner municipalities through annual budget allocations under Beredskabsloven, with a Beredskabskommission (chaired by the mayor of Halsnæs) approving an annual fee schedule (takstblad) for non-statutory services. Revenue diversification is minimal and structurally constrained — equipment rental, training courses, fire inspections, and ABA administration are priced to recover costs without competing with private providers. The company is led by Beredskabsdirektør Rikke Sønderriis and Vicedirektør/Operativ chef Toke Elling, supported by an area-manager and station-leder structure across the network. The organization has no subsidiaries, no external funding rounds, no API or commercial software product, and operates as a non-traded public-sector entity serving exclusively the Frederiksborg region.

Name

Frederiksborg Brand & Redning

Legal name

Frederiksborg Brand & Redning

Website

https://fbbr.dk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Frederiksborg Brand & Redning is a Danish municipal §60 company, jointly owned by five municipalities (Egedal, Frederikssund, Furesø, Halsnæs, Hillerød), that delivers statutory fire and rescue services, fire prevention inspections, and first-aid training across 11 stations in the Frederiksborg region of Denmark.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fire and Rescue Services

NAICS

Fire Protection (92216), Fire Protection (922160)

akta.pro primary industry

Fire & Rescue Services (Fire Suppression, Rescue) (BPAIAGAB)

Keywords

• Fire and rescue services
• Emergency response services
• Fire prevention inspections
• First aid training
• Municipal emergency services

Headquarters

HQ city

Frederikssund

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Municipal Funding: Frederiksborg Brand & Redning is a municipal §60 company jointly owned by five municipalities (Egedal, Frederikssund, Furesø, Halsnæs, Hillerød). Primary funding comes from municipal budgets through Beredskabsloven (Emergency Preparedness Act)
2. Fee-based Services (Takstblad): Services not covered by emergency preparedness law, as well as rental of equipment, are charged according to the annual fee schedule (takstblad) approved by the Beredskabskommissionen. Prices are set to cover costs without competing with private companies

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Frederiksborg Brand & Redning is a municipal emergency services organization providing 24/7 firefighting, rescue, and emergency response across 11 fire stations in five Danish municipalities. It delivers fire prevention services including mandatory building inspections (brandsyn), automatic fire alarm (ABA) administration, fire hydrant maintenance, and fee-based first aid and firefighting training courses to citizens, businesses, schools, and institutions. The organization also operates a youth firefighter cadet program (Brandkadet) and a voluntary supplementary emergency service equipped with drone capability.

Product overview

Frederiksborg Brand & Redning is a municipal §60 company (established January 1, 2016) jointly owned by Egedal, Frederikssund, Furesø, Halsnæs, and Hillerød municipalities. The organization provides comprehensive fire and rescue services including emergency response (24/7 firefighting and rescue operations), fire prevention (mandatory inspections, technical building review, fire safety education), and professional training (first aid courses and firefighting instruction). The service operates through 11 local fire stations staffed by full-time and part-time firefighters, supported by volunteer emergency personnel. Core offerings include: fire inspection services (brandsyn), automatic fire alarm system administration (ABA), fire hydrant maintenance, first aid training courses, firefighting training, a youth firefighter cadet program (Brandkadet), and voluntary supplementary emergency services. The organization does not appear to offer a traditional software product, API, or technology platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Emergency Response and Rescue Operations

Quantifiable outcome

• Responds to over 1,300 emergency calls annually across all stations

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Hovedstadens BeredskabcoreTechnology or IntegrationHovedstadens Beredskab serves as the alarm transmission center (vagtcentral) for Frederiksborg Brand & Redning. This partnership handles incoming emergency calls and coordinates alarm dispatch for the fire stations.
• FalckcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFrederiksborg Brand & Redning shares fire station facilities with Falck at multiple locations including Hillerød (Heimdalsvej 1 since 2021) and Frederiksværk. This co-location arrangement enables operational coordination and shared infrastructure.
• Local Youth Schools (Ungdomsskoler)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAnnual brandkadet (fire cadet) program offered in cooperation with local youth schools. Course runs September to May with 16-20 participants aged 13-18 years, providing fire safety education and youth development.
• Region HovedstadenminorOthersCo-location partner at the Hillerød fire station (Heimdalsvej 1) where Region Hovedstaden shares the facility with Falck and Frederiksborg Brand & Redning since 2021.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Beredskab Sydjylland: Joint municipal fire and rescue service for southern Jutland. Functions as a §60 company with a comparable multi-station, multi-municipality structure — direct peer to FBBR in scale and governance.
• Hovedstadens Beredskab: Greater Copenhagen's municipal §60 fire and rescue company, structurally and operationally identical to FBBR: statutory mandate, joint municipal ownership, multi-station network, and shared alarm-dispatch infrastructure. FBBR uses Hovedstadens Beredskab as its vagtcentral, making them both peer and operational partner.
• Beredskab Østjylland: Joint municipal emergency service company covering East Jutland municipalities (including Aarhus area). Operates under the same Beredskabslov framework as FBBR with equivalent fire, rescue, and prevention mandate.
• Beredskab Midtjylland: Joint municipal fire and rescue company serving central Jutland. Operates under identical Danish §60-company legislation as FBBR, with comparable multi-station structure and combined staffing model — direct functional peer at similar scale.
• Beredskab Øst: Another Danish municipal joint fire and rescue company (Region Sjælland area), operating under the same Beredskabslov framework with multiple municipal owners and combined full-time/part-time stations. Closest structural analogue to FBBR outside the Hovedstaden region.
• Beredskab Nordjylland: Joint municipal fire and rescue company serving northern Jutland. Same Danish §60-company structure, same Beredskabslov mandate, comparable combined full-time/part-time station network — directly comparable to FBBR.

Others

• Danske Beredskaber: Danish sector association representing municipal fire and rescue services (beredskaber) including FBBR. Industry/advocacy peer rather than operational competitor — represents the collective interests of municipal beredskaber before national authorities.
• TrygFonden: Danish charitable foundation that funds first-aid training and citizen-resuscitation programs across Denmark, complementary to FBBR's first-aid course catalog. Thematically adjacent as a funder/ecosystem participant in citizen safety training rather than a direct service competitor.

Broad incumbents

• Beredskabsstyrelsen: The Danish Emergency Management Agency, a national-level state entity under the Ministry of Defence responsible for civil protection and nationwide emergency preparedness. Operates above municipal beredskaber like FBBR and provides national-level coordination and mutual aid.
• Falck: Denmark's largest private-sector emergency services provider, sharing co-located stations with FBBR at Hillerød and Frederiksværk. Operates fire, ambulance, and rescue services across Denmark — broader private-sector incumbent overlapping with FBBR's coverage area.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/frederiksborgbrandogredning
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/frederiksborg-brand-&-redning
• Instagraminstagram.com/fbbr.dk

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles15 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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