Grieg Seafood

Grieg Seafood (OSE: GSF) is an international seafood company with fish farms in Rogaland and Finnmark in Norway, British Columbia and Shetland. The company specializes in fresh Atlantic salmon. It has an annual production of 80,000 tonnes of salmon and trout. The company is based in Bergen, Norway, and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

Grieg Seafood ASA
TypeAllmennaksjeselskap
OSE: GSF
IndustrySeafood
Founded1992
HeadquartersBergen, Norway
Area served
Global
Key people
Morten Vike (CEO)
Ivar Kvangardsnes (Deputy CEO)
Helge Nielsen (Chairman)
ProductsSalmon
Trout
Revenue NOK 536 million
NOK 170 million
Number of employees
410 (2007)
Websitewww.griegseafood.no

The company was listed on July 20, 2007. The largest owners are Grieg Holdings (40.63%) and Halde Invest (20.54%). The corporation was previously a subsidiary of the Grieg Group, and is still co-located with its largest owner in Downtown Bergen. In 2006 the company performed a merger with Volden Group and has previously also operated in Denmark and Chile.

The company is "licensed to produce 23,400 tonnes of salmon annually to North American and Asian markets." The Global Aquaculture Alliance, a standards-setting organization for seafood, has awarded Grieg Seafood as Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP).[1][2]

Together with Marine Harvest and Cermaq, Grieg controls more than 90% of the salmon farming industry in British Columbia, Canada.[3]

References
  1. "Company - Grieg Seafood, British Columbia, Canada". Grieg Seafood Canada. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  2. "How the pandemic ushered in a marketing evolution at a B.C. aquaculture firm". Campbell River Mirror. 2020-09-16. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  3. "A Deep-Dive Into the Controversy of Salmon Farming In BC". Douglas Magazine. 2018-04-21. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
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