Lauritz Knudsen from Odense opened his first workshop in Copenhagen in 1893. He made clocks and chronometers and later electromechanical tools and materials. Knudsen died in 1917, but his company, already employing hundreds of workers remained very successful. In 1921 a new factory was opened in Haraldsgade. LK as the company was called from then on, later produced all kinds of consumer goods like radios and loudspeakers.