Gilde Norsk Kjøtt is a defunct

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processing company organised as an

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. The company was by far the largest processor in the country when it merged with Prior Norge in 2006 to create

Nortura Nortura is a Norwegian agricultural cooperative that operates slaughterhouses and other processing plants related to meat and eggs. The company was created as a merger between Gilde Norsk Kjøtt and Prior Norge in 2006, and has head offices i ...

.Solholm, Rolleiv
Nortura divisions closing down.
''The Norway Post.'' The company had gradually grown together as the slaughter cooperatives in the country had merged. It was not until 2000 that the company fully merged into one legal entity. Before this it had been an association between various local

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History

The first farmer owned

in Norway was Hamar Slagteri AS founded in 1904. Seven years later Fellesslakteriet was founded in

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as the first slaughter cooperative. 1930 sees the ''Trade Act'' that secured stable prices for both farmers and

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s. The background for this was overproduction that had forced down the produce prices and

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many farmers. The next year Norges Kjøtt og Fleskesentral (NKF) is established as a membership organisation for all slaughterhouses in Norway. In 1958 NKF reorganised creating 17 district organisations to manage the processing and the following year Gilde is launched in Northern Norway. In 1990 the name of the company changed to Norsk Kjøttsamvirke BA that was kept until 2004 when it took the name Gilde Norsk Kjøtt BA. But not until 2000 is the company actually completely merged so the mother company owns all the processing plants. The company merged with Prior Norge to create Nortura in 2006.

Branding

The

Gilde Gilde is a brand name used by the Norwegian meat processing company Nortura on its red meats; including beef, pork, lamb, veal, reindeer. Until 2006 the brand was managed by the agricultural cooperative Gilde Norsk Kjøtt who then merged with ...

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was taken into use nationally in 1964, after it had been used at first in Northern Norway since 1959. In 1971 Gilde made an agreement with Norges Kooperative Landsforening to create the common brand Goman that was to deliver meat to the cooperative stores. The company also adapted a separate

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brand as under the Gilde brand during the 2000s. These products were exclusively distributed through the

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and

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stores. In 2001 Gilde launched the brand

Alfathi Alfathi (lit. ''New Possibilities'') is a brand name used by Nortura on its halal meat distributed in Norway. The meat is approved by the Islamic Council Norway. There has traditionally been a disharmony between the Norwegian food traditions and a ...

that made

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meats following the

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rules of

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. Other minor brands included the smoked meat Eldhus. Gilde also produced a number of frozen and

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under the brand Terina.

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