Austevoll Seafood ASA is a major Norwegian seafood company.
Austevoll Seafood trades publicly on the
Oslo Stock Exchange. The company is a majority owner of Norwegian seafood company
Lerøy. The company is a majority owner of Peruvian seafood company
Austral. In July 2010, Austevoll Seafood ASA bought
Domstein
Domstein is a Norway, Norwegian fishing company based in Måløy. The company is controlled by Rolf Domstein.
Operations
Through the division Domstein Fish AS the group has production facilities for white fish (fisheries term), white fish in MÃ ...
ASA's shares, and became the largest shareholder. In June 2011, a merger between Austevoll Fisk AS and Norway Pelagic AS was completed to effectively integrate Austevoll's pelagic operations for human consumption, into Norway Pelagic, with compensation through a direct share placement. In 2014, after several holding increase activities, Austevoll Seafood and Kvefi AS agreed to merge respective pelagic activities in Europe establishing seafood and feed compan
Pelagia Austevoll Seafood has operations in
Storebø, the administrative centre and largest village in
Austevoll
Austevoll is a municipality and an archipelago in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Midthordland in Western Norway. The administrative centre is the village of Storebø on the island of Huftarøy. Other vill ...
municipality,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
.
Ole Rasmus Møgster built up Austevoll Seafood (which Ole Rasmus controlled, as a major owner and chairman of the board) with his brother
Helge Møgster. They also built
DOF ASA (which Helge controlled).
In 2008 the brothers were two of the three billionaires who were active in the Norwegian fishing industry. The third billionaire was
Kjell Inge Røkke.
References
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Seafood companies of Norway
Companies listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange
Companies based in Hordaland
Companies established in 1981