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Norway has extensive reserves of petroleum, natural gas, minerals, lumber, seafood, fresh water and hydropower. The petroleum industry accounts for around a quarter of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). [1] On a per-capita basis, Norway is the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas outside the Middle East. [2] [3]
This list of the largest companies of Norway contains the 500 largest companies in Norway by revenue. Information is provided on revenue, operating income , net income and number of employees . Financial amounts are in millions of Norwegian kroner (1 US dollar = 8.85 kroner as of 12/02/2022 [ 1 ] ).
In 1888, the company was taken over by William Martin Nygaard and Thorstein Lambrechts (1856–1933), who kept the name while expanding its operations. [ 3 ] In 1900 William Nygaard withdrew from the bookselling side of the business and established a publishing company, which was given the name H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard).
The first list of prices showed 23 shares. [1] From 1920 to 1936, whaling shares accounted for about 50% of total turnover. [2] In addition to Norwegian and foreign companies with shares listed on Oslo Stock Exchange, the list also includes equity certificates issued by Norwegian savings banks. [3]
The company's origin and background dates back to the early 1600s. The discovery of silver in the mountains around Kongsberg in 1624 meant that the city became an important mineral resource for the Danish Norwegian kingdom. When the Danish-Norwegian union was dissolved about 200 years later there was a need to build up a strong defence
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The company's headquarters are located in Norway's oil capital Stavanger. The name Statoil was a truncated form of the State's oil (company) . Statoil was one of the largest net sellers of crude oil in the world, and a major supplier of natural gas to the European continent, Statoil also operated around 2000 service stations in 9 countries.
DNV's history dates from 1864, when Det Norske Veritas was established in Norway to head the technical inspection and evaluation of Norwegian merchant vessels. [6] Germanischer Lloyd was founded in Hamburg in 1867 by a group of 600 ship owners, ship builders and insurers. [7] The company celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2014. [8]