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Brande is a railway town with a population of 7,394 (1 January 2021) located at the railroad between Vejle and Herning in Ikast-Brande municipality in Region Midtjylland in the central area of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. Until 1 January 2007 it was the seat of the municipal-council of Brande municipality. Brande is the home of leading wind energy pioneer Bonus Energy A/S, now Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy.Brande is also home to Danish clothing companies Bestseller A/S and BTX Group.A large building project is in its early making in Brande. Bestseller wants to create a new quarter Bestseller Village & Tower with housing, business park, hotel, education area, etc. in the north-eastern part of the town, and the centre of the quarter will be a new high-rise building called Bestseller Tower (Danish: Bestseller-tårnet) which will be a 320 metres tall skyscraper. Thereby it will become the second-highest structure in Western Europe, surpassed only by the 324 metres of the Eiffel Tower; it will be the tallest building, 10.4 meters taller than the Shard in London. The project was approved in March 2019 by Ikast-Brande Municipality, and is expected to be completed in 2023.