Norway

Norwegians Shopping In Sweden More, Spending Less In Home Market

Norwegian consumers are crossing the border into Sweden more often, while also spending less in domestic supermarkets, new data has found. The data, fro...

Norgesgruppen Sees 2.5% Increase In First Half Revenues

Norwegian retail conglomerate Norgesgruppen has posted operating revenue of NOK 43.89 billion (€4.37 billion) in the first half of its financial year,...

Tackling Cross-Border Trade In Sweden A 'Golden Opportunity', NHO Says

Norwegian food and beverage representative group NHO Mat og Drikke has said that tackling cross-border trade in Sweden represents a 'golden opportunity' fo...

Orkla's Branded Consumer Goods Businesses Posts 7% Profit Increase

The branded consumer goods businesses operated by Norwegian food conglomerate Orkla posted an operating profit gain of 7%, to NOK 1.12 billion (€120 m...

Coop Norge's Extra Opens 24-Hour, Self-Service Grocery Store

Coop Norge has announced that its low-cost chain, Extra, has launched the country’s first ‘unattended’ grocery store, in Bogstadveien, in...

Former Dixons Carphone Exec Appointed Orkla President And CEO

Norwegian food conglomerate Orkla has appointed Jaan Ivar Semlitsch as its new president and CEO. According to a company statement, Semlitsch joins Orkl...

Coop Norge CEO Confident About The Future After Strong 2018

Coop Norge chief executive Geir Inge Stokke has said that the company's dividend to its 1.7 million co-owners was at a "record high", as the busi...

Surge Of Algae Kills Millions Of Salmon In Norway

A surge of algae has killed an estimated 8 million salmon at Norwegian fish farms over the past week, wiping out more than half of this year's expected sal...