Aker RGI
Aker ASA is a Norwegian industrial investment company with ownership interests concentrated in oil and gas, renewable energy and green technologies, maritime assets, marine biotechnology, and industrial software. The company is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange. Aker's main shareholder is Kjell Inge Røkke, who owns 68.2% per cent of Aker through his company TRG Holding AS. The corporate headquarters are located in Fornebu, Norway. Aker was established in 1841 when Akers Mekaniske Verksted was founded in Oslo. Group companies As of 31 December 2020: *Currently owned **Aker BP (40.0%) **Aker Solutions (33.3%) **Akastor (36.7%) **Aker BioMarine (77.8%) **Ocean Yield (61.7%) **Aker Energy (50.8%) **Cognite (62.0%) **Aker Horizons (100.0%) History The company takes its name from the former Akers mekaniske Verksted, which was Norway's largest shipyard and which closed in 1982. In 1987 one of the surviving companies split off from the shipyard merged with Norcem, creating a large cement g ...
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Allmennaksjeselskap
''Aksjeselskap'' is the Norwegian term for a stock-based company. It is usually abbreviated AS, historically often written as A/S. An AS is always a limited company, i.e. the owners cannot be held liable for any debt beyond the stock capital. Public companies are called Allmennaksjeselskap (ASA), while companies without limited liability are called '' Ansvarlig selskap'' (ANS). All AS companies must have a stock capital of at least NOK 30,000. In addition, they must have a board of directors, depending on the size of turnover, balance sheet total or number of employees, an auditor. They may appoint a managing director (MD) or chief executive (CEO). If the company has assets exceeding NOK 3 million, the board must have at least three members and cannot be chaired by the MD/CEO. Practically all Norwegian companies have a fiscal year from January to December, but some foreign subsidiaries may have a different fiscal year, as is allowed, to match the parent corporation. The ASA ...
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Aker Maritime
Aker Maritime is a defunct Norwegian petroleum industry supply company. Listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange it was controlled by Aker RGI, owned by Kjell Inge Røkke. The company was created in 1996 when Aker's oil and gas division was merged with Maritime Group. In 2001 Kværner was bought by the Aker Group, and Kværner and Aker Maritime were merged to Aker Kværner (now Aker Solutions) in 2004. See also * List of oilfield service companies This is a list of oilfield service companies – notable companies that provide services to the petroleum exploration and petroleum production, production industry but do not typically produce petroleum. In the list, notable subsidiary companies an ... References Oil companies of Norway Defunct companies of Norway Aker ASA Companies based in Oslo Energy companies established in 1996 Non-renewable resource companies established in 1996 Non-renewable resource companies disestablished in 2004 1996 establishments in Norway 2004 ...
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Manufacturing Companies Established In 2004
Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high-tech, but it is most commonly applied to industrial design, in which raw materials from the primary sector are transformed into finished goods on a large scale. Such goods may be sold to other manufacturers for the production of other more complex products (such as aircraft, household appliances, furniture, sports equipment or automobiles), or distributed via the tertiary industry to end users and consumers (usually through wholesalers, who in turn sell to retailers, who then sell them to individual customers). Manufacturing engineering is the field of engineering that designs and optimizes the manufacturing process, or the steps through which raw materials are transformed into a final ...
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Holding Companies Established In 2004
Holding may refer to: * Holding an object with the hands, or grasping * Holding (law), the central determination in a judicial opinion * Holding (aeronautics), a manoeuvre in aviation * Holding (surname) * Holding company, a company that owns stock in other companies * Holding (American football), a common penalty in American football * '' The Miroslav Holding Co.'', 2001 Croatian film also released as ''Holding'' * "Holding", an episode of the American animated television series '' Beavis and Butt-Head'' * ''Holding'' (TV series), a 2022 TV series See also * * * Smallholding * Hold (other) * The Holding (other) * " Holdin'," a song by Diamond Rio * Hoarding * Possession (law) In law, possession is the control a person intentionally exercises toward a thing. Like ownership, the possession of anything is commonly regulated by country under property law. In all cases, to possess something, a person must have an inten ...

Conglomerate Companies Established In 2004
Conglomerate or conglomeration may refer to: * Conglomerate (company) * Conglomerate (geology) * Conglomerate (mathematics) In popular culture: * The Conglomerate (American group), a production crew and musical group founded by Busta Rhymes ** Conglomerate (record label), a hip hop label founded by Busta Rhymes * The Conglomerate (Australian group), a jazz quartet See also * Conglomerate Ridge, in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica * ConGlomeration (convention) ConGlomeration was an annual multigenre convention held in or around Louisville, Kentucky between 2001 and 2019. ConGlomeration was an all-volunteer non-profit organization which, as part of its convention programming, conducted charitable acti ...

Shipbuilding Companies Of Norway
Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other Watercraft, floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history. Shipbuilding and ship repairs, both commercial and military, are referred to as "Naval architecture, naval engineering". The construction of boats is a similar activity called boat building. The dismantling of ships is called ship breaking. History Pre-history The earliest known depictions (including paintings and models) of shallow-water sailing boats is from the 6th to 5th millennium BC of the Ubaid period of Mesopotamia. They were made from bundled Reed (plant), reeds coated in bitumen and had bipod masts. They sailed in shallow coastal waters of the Persian Gulf. 4th millennium BC Ancient Egypt Evidence from Ancient Egypt shows that the early Egyptians knew how to assemble planks of wood into a hull ( ...
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Holding Companies Of Norway
Holding may refer to: * Holding an object with the hands, or grasping * Holding (law), the central determination in a judicial opinion * Holding (aeronautics), a manoeuvre in aviation * Holding (surname) * Holding company, a company that owns stock in other companies * Holding (American football), a common penalty in American football * ''The Miroslav Holding Co.'', 2001 Croatian film also released as ''Holding'' * "Holding", an episode of the American animated television series ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Holding (TV series), ''Holding'' (TV series), a 2022 TV series See also

* * * Smallholding * Hold (other) * The Holding (other) * "Holdin'," a song by Diamond Rio * Hoarding * Possession (law) {{disambiguation ...
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Conglomerate Companies Of Norway
Conglomerate or conglomeration may refer to: * Conglomerate (company) * Conglomerate (geology) * Conglomerate (mathematics) In popular culture: * The Conglomerate (American group), a production crew and musical group founded by Busta Rhymes ** Conglomerate (record label), a hip hop label founded by Busta Rhymes * The Conglomerate (Australian group), a jazz quartet See also * Conglomerate Ridge, in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica * ConGlomeration (convention) ConGlomeration was an annual multigenre convention held in or around Louisville, Kentucky between 2001 and 2019. ConGlomeration was an all-volunteer non-profit organization which, as part of its convention programming, conducted charitable acti ...

Aker ASA
Aker ASA is a Norwegian industrial investment company with ownership interests concentrated in oil and gas, renewable energy and green technologies, maritime assets, marine biotechnology, and industrial software. The company is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange. Aker's main shareholder is Kjell Inge Røkke, who owns 68.2% per cent of Aker through his company TRG Holding AS. The corporate headquarters are located in Fornebu, Norway. Aker was established in 1841 when Akers Mekaniske Verksted was founded in Oslo. Group companies As of 31 December 2020: *Currently owned **Aker BP (40.0%) **Aker Solutions (33.3%) **Akastor (36.7%) **Aker BioMarine (77.8%) **Ocean Yield (61.7%) **Aker Energy (50.8%) **Cognite (62.0%) **Aker Horizons (100.0%) History The company takes its name from the former Akers mekaniske Verksted, which was Norway's largest shipyard and which closed in 1982. In 1987 one of the surviving companies split off from the shipyard merged with Norcem, creating a large ceme ...
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Altor Equity Partners
Altor Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the DACH region. History The firm, which is based in Stockholm, Sweden, was founded in 2003 by a team led by , formerly a partner at Industri Kapital, another Nordic-focused private equity firm. As of 2015, the firm has raised approximately €6.2 billion since inception across three funds. The firm completed fundraising for its first investment vehicle, the Altor 2003 Fund in May 2003 with €650 million of investor commitments. Altor Fund II was closed in March 2006 €1.2 billion of capital and Altor Fund III closed in August 2008 with €2.0 billion of commitments. Altor closed its fourth fund in July 2014, also with €2 billion in commitments. Altor closed its most recent fifth fund in 2019, with €2.5 billion in commitments. Notable Investments In 2006, Altor purchased Norwegian outdoor clothing retailer Helly Hansen from Inv ...
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Constructor Group AS
Constructor Group AS is a Norwegian-registered international company, with headquarters in Oslo, that specialises in the manufacture and supply of shelving, mobile shelving, pallet racking and similar storage systems, primarily for commercial use in offices, factories, warehouses, museums, archives, libraries and retail outlets. Business Constructor Group products are delivered through five international brands, plus one UK-based brand: *Constructor - a racking and shelving business which during the 1980s consolidated several Scandinavian manufacturers *Constructor Logistics - a developer of warehouse management software *Dexion - Invented in London by Demetrius Comino, Dexion slotted angle revolutionised adjustable shelving and other forms of racking and storage from the late 1940s onwards *Kasten - originally a Helsinki, Finland-based metalworking company established in 1886, which started manufacturing shelving in 1951 *PSS (a UK brand - acquired by Constructor Group in 2008) ...
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Trafalgar House (company)
Trafalgar House was a British conglomerate with interests in property investment, property development, engineering, construction, shipping, hotels, energy and publishing. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but eventually floundered in the mid-1990s. History Trafalgar House was founded by entrepreneur Nigel Broackes, whose interests in share dealing and small scale property development brought him into contact with the directors of the Eastern International Investment Trust, a small trust quoted on the London Stock Exchange. In 1959, Broackes acquired a 42 per cent holding in Eastern's property subsidiary, Eastern International Property Investments (EIPI). Two years later, Broackes formed a relationship with Commercial Union which bought shares in EIPI and prepared to act as a financial backer for new property developments. Almost immediately EIPI bought a 55 per cent stake in CU's residential property subsidiary Westminster & ...
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