Lerøy Seafood Group ASA is a
seafood
Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g. bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus an ...
production and distribution company based in
Bergen,
Norway
The company started operation in the 19th century when the
fisherman Ole Mikkel Lerøen started selling fish and other seafood on the fish market of
Bergen. In 1939 the primary subsidiary Hallvar Lærøy AS was founded. Until 1997 the company was family owned, when it became a
public company resulting in the listing on
Oslo Stock Exchange
Oslo Stock Exchange ( no, Oslo Børs) (OSE: OSLO) is a stock exchange within the Nordic countries and offers Norway’s only regulated markets for securities trading today. The stock exchange offers a full product range including equities, deriv ...
in 2002.
The company started exporting
salmon in 1973 and gradually became dominant among Norway's salmon exporters.
[Lerøy Seafood Group ASA]
Store Norske Leksikon, retrieved 25 February 2013
In 2011, the company was named Norway's 12th largest exporting company.
As of 2012, the company was the second largest salmon and
trout farming company in the world,
Lerøy-datter kutter 70 ansatte
E24, 22 February 2012 and involved in fish farms in Hitra, Kristiansund, Troms and Scotland (Shetland
Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom.
The islands lie about to the no ...
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References
Seafood companies of Norway
Companies based in Bergen
Companies listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange
Fish processing companies
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