Norway

Spar Increases Market Share In Norway To 7.3%

Spar Norway has announced that its market share in the country increased from 6.9% to 7.3% over the past five years. It attributed this growth to excell...

Norway's Meny Sees 3.4% Growth In 2019

Norwegian supermarket chain Meny has posted 3.4% growth in 2019, welcoming some 83 million customers through the doors of its stores last year. The reta...

Orkla's Consumer Goods Business Sees Revenue Up In Fourth Quarter

The branded consumer goods business at Norwegian conglomerate Orkla posted 2.0% organic revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2019, the group has announc...

Norway Raises Output Quotas For Salmon Farmers

Norway will allow fish farming companies to raise their salmon and trout output capacity in nine of the country's 13 ocean farming regions, its fisheries m...

Norwegians Stock Up On Beverages, Tobacco On Cross-Border Trips: Study

Norwegian consumers tend to stock up on soft drinks and mineral water, alcohol, tobacco and confectionery when shopping cross-border, according to a new st...

NorgesGruppen Earmarks NOK8.5m For 2020 Environmental Fund

Norwegian retailer NorgesGruppen has set an upper limit of NOK 8.5 million (€860,000) for its environmental fund for employees for the year 2020. T...

ESM: A Year In Retail – Iceland Enters Norway: Cool As Ice, Issue 2, 2019

Things are heating up in the Norwegian retail market, with the arrival of a new player, frozen-food retailer Iceland. ESM spoke to Geir Olav Opheim, its ch...

Rapid Growth In Border Trade 'Worrying', Says Norwegian Food Sector Head

Norwegian consumers spent a total of NOK 17.6 billion (€1.74 billion) overseas in the 12 month period from Q4 2018 to Q3 2019, a statistic that the CE...