In 1992, Villum Kann Rasmussen’s eldest son, Lars Kann-Rasmussen, became Chairman of the board of V. Kann Rasmussen Industri - the parent company of the VELUX Group. Villum died in 1993 at the age of 84, leaving behind a prosperous group of companies in rapid expansion as well as two non-profit foundations.
During the next decades, Lars Kann-Rasmussen developed, modernised and expanded the VELUX Group into an international enterprise, consolidating its position as a market leader in the building components industry.
Villum Kann Rasmussen, on the island in the Danish part of the Wadden Sea where he was born in 1909