Vestas Wind Systems A/S

Vestas Wind Systems A/S is a Danish manufacturer, seller, installer and servicer of wind turbines, headquartered in Aarhus and trading on Nasdaq Copenhagen under the ticker VWS, with about 35,100 employees and manufacturing facilities across Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan, India, Italy, Romania, the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Australia, China, Brazil, Poland and the United States as of 2024. The company traces its origins to 1898, when Hans Smith Hansen acquired a blacksmith shop in Lem, West Jutland; his son Peder Hansen founded Vestas in 1945 as Vestjysk Staalteknik, initially making household appliances before moving into agricultural equipment in 1950, intercoolers in 1956 and hydraulic cranes in 1968. It entered wind turbine manufacturing in 1979 and committed to the sector exclusively from 1989. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/