|
Denofa
Denofa AS, established in 1912 as De Nordiske Fabriker A/S (De-No-Fa for short), is a Norwegian industrial company. It has produced oil, proteins and fatty acid (lecithin) for the food processing industry, the fodder industry and the pharmaceutical industry.About us - Denofa official site. Retrieved on 27 October 2008. Starting with as a basis for refinement,History - Denofa official site. Retrieved on 27 October 2008. the use of later became more widespread. The company was established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilleborg
Lilleborg AS is a major hygiene and Washing, cleaning article company in Norway, owned by the Orkla Group. It was established in 1833, and was one of the first companies in Norway to start manufacturing brand, brand name products. It currently operates three factories in Norway, and employs a total working staff of 595. History Originally a family business, established in 1833 on the banks of the Akerselva, Aker river in Oslo, Lilleborg expanded in 1842 to manufacturing hygiene products with the opening of ''"sæbesyderiet"'', the "soap boilery". Here the company's manufacture of soft soap and bathroom soaps took place. In 1897, it became an ''aksjeselskap'', and changed its name to A/S Lilleborg Fabrikker. In the final years of the 19th century, the company was offering a broad range of Essential oil, oils, bathroom, household and soft soaps. It was also the largest company of its sort in Norway, with more than 100 employees on roll. At the end of the 1920s, Lilleborg had deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Fredrik Holmboe
Carl Fredrik Holmboe (25 August 1882 – 15 January 1960) was a Norwegian engineer and business executive. Biography He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway as the only son of Jens Anton Holmboe (1828-92) and his third wife Marie Aarreberg (1842-1917). He had several half-brothers and half-sisters. His grandfather Leonhard Christian Borchgrevink Holmboe was a priest and national politician. Holmboe studied electrical and mechanical engineering in Germany. Subsequently he was a consultant for several Norwegian based companies. He first made his mark by producing the technologically advanced factory at Fredrikstad for the company Denofa. In 1915 he was hired as chief engineer in the company Lever Brothers, being promoted to technical director in 1921. He was then CEO of De-No-Fa from 1923 to 1946, except for the period between 1940 and 1946. Denofa AS later merged with Lilleborg, and is today a part of the Orkla Group Orkla ASA is a Norwegian conglomerate operating in the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Nicolaysen
Wilhelm Lorentz Lexau Nicolaysen (16 February 1869 – 22 July 1944) was a Norwegian barrister and businessperson. He was born in Kristiania as a son of professor of medicine Julius Nicolaysen (1831–1909) and Bolette Marie Berentine Nicolaysen (1835–1922). He was a brother of professor of medicine Johan Nicolaysen and banker Lyder Wenzel Nicolaysen, uncle of chief physician Knud Dahl Nicolaysen, nephew of Nicolay Nicolaysen and second cousin of Niels Aars Nicolaysen. In 1919 he married Fredrikke Dorothea Hagerup, daughter of Prime Minister Francis Hagerup and since 1919 a court mistress for the Norwegian royal family. He finished his secondary education in 1887, graduated with the cand.jur. Candidate of Law (Latin: ''candidatus/candidata juris/iuris'') is both a graduate law degree awarded to law students in the Nordic region as well as an academic status designation for advanced Law School students in German-speaking countries. ... degree in 1893 and started workin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Dietrich Hildisch
Carl Dietrich Hildisch (22 April 1867 – 16 September 1949) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician for Nasjonal Samling. Biography He was born in Norway to German parents. He co-founded of the company De-No-Fa in 1912, and was elected to the first board of directors. He joined the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling in 1933, but was not an active member until the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany from 1940. In May 1940, he acted as an informer for the Sicherheitspolizei about local businesspeople. Later in 1940, Hildisch was installed by Reichskommissar Josef Terboven as manager of De-No-Fa. In February 1943 he was installed as president of the Federation of Norwegian Industries, as the pre-war leadership was ousted. On 1 May 1943 he was declared vice president of the new organisation Norges Næringssamband. He was a close supporter of the president there, Alf Whist. The German occupation ended on 8 May 1945, and Hildisch lost all his positions. He escaped conviction du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredrikstad
Fredrikstad (; previously ''Frederiksstad''; literally "Fredrik's Town") is a city and municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad. The city of Fredrikstad was founded in 1567 by King Frederick II, and established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see '' formannskapsdistrikt''). The rural municipality of Glemmen was merged with Fredrikstad on 1 January 1964. The rural municipalities of Borge, Onsøy, Kråkerøy, and Rolvsøy were merged with Fredrikstad on 1 January 1994. The city straddles the river Glomma where it meets the Skagerrak, about from the Sweden border. Along with neighboring Sarpsborg, Fredrikstad forms the fifth largest city in Norway: Fredrikstad/Sarpsborg. As of 30 September 2021, according to Statistics Norway, these two municipalities have a total population of 141,708 with 83,761 in Fredrikstad and 57,947 in Sarpsborg. Fredrikstad was built at the mouth of Glomma as a replacement af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layoff
A layoff or downsizing is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing (reducing the size of) an organization. Originally, ''layoff'' referred exclusively to a temporary interruption in work, or employment but this has evolved to a permanent elimination of a position in both British and US English, requiring the addition of "temporary" to specify the original meaning of the word. A layoff is not to be confused with wrongful termination. ''Laid off workers'' or ''displaced workers'' are workers who have lost or left their jobs because their employer has closed or moved, there was insufficient work for them to do, or their position or shift was abolished (Borbely, 2011). Downsizing in a company is defined to involve the reduction of employees in a workforce. Downsizing in companies became a popular practice in the 1980s and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leknes
is a town in Nordland county, Norway. The town is also the administrative centre of the municipality of Vestvågøy (with 10,764 inhabitants, it is the most populous municipality in Lofoten and Vesterålen). Leknes was designated a "town" ( no, by) in 2002. The town has a population (2018) of 3,556 which gives the town a population density of . The town is situated in the geographical middle of the Lofoten archipelago on the island of Vestvågøya. It is approximately west of the town of Svolvær and east of the village of Å in Moskenes. Leknes is one of the few towns in Lofoten that does not depend on fisheries and does not have its town centre by the sea. Because of this, and because of its rapid growth in recent years, it does not have the same traditional wooden architecture as most other towns in Lofoten, and may thus not be as picturesque as its neighbouring fishing villages. However, the natural surroundings are among the most stunning in Norway, with mountains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orkla Group
Orkla ASA is a Norwegian conglomerate operating in the Nordic region, Eastern Europe, Asia and the US. At present, Orkla operates in the branded consumer goods, aluminium solutions and financial investment sectors. Orkla ASA is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and its head office is in Oslo, Norway. , Orkla had 21,423 employees. The Group's turnover in 2021 totalled NOK 50.4 billion. Operations Orkla's branded consumer goods division produces brands in many fields, primarily in the Nordic region, but also in other places such as Central and Eastern European countries, Russia and the Baltic region. Among the companies owned by Orkla are Abba Seafood, Beauvais foods, Chips, Felix Abba, Göteborgs Kex, Kalev, KiMs, Lilleborg, MTR Foods, Rasoi Magic, Peter Möller, Nidar, OLW, Panda, Procordia Food, Stabburet, Sætre, Pierre Robert Group and Laima. As of February 2020 Orkla has major ownership in Jotun (42.6%). Borregaard was divested and listed on the Oslo Stock Excha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stabburet
Stabburet is a Norwegian food producer founded by Gunnar Nilsen in 1943. Stabburet is a part of Orkla Foods, and has ten factories in southern Norway. It sells well-known brands, such as Grandiosa, Big One, Nugatti Nugatti is a Norwegian brand of chocolate spread made from hazelnuts and nougat. It comes in ordinary or economy-sized plastic tubs, or the latest addition, a small red tube, similar to toothpaste tubes, and is produced by Stabburet. It was int ..., Fun Light, Idun and Chef. References Stabburet website(Norwegian). Food and drink companies of Norway Orkla ASA {{food-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
