BIBLIOTEKSENTRALEN SA
The company is in the weakest quarter of its industry
The company kept -115.3 % of every krone in 2025. The median among 48 companies in engroshandel med andre husholdningsvarer was 3.8 %.
Key figures 2025
- Revenue
- 159.5 m kr
- Operating profit
- -183.9 m kr
- Operating margin
- -115.3 %industry median 3.8 %
- Equity ratio
- 39.5 %industry median 40.4 %
- Revenue growth
- -8.6 %from the year before
- Equity
- 119.2 m kr
The industry
Where the company stands among 48 companies
Among 48 companies in this industry, the top third earned 14.0 % on every krone, against -1.3 % for the weakest third. The spread is 15 percentage points.
The comparison is limited to companies of roughly the same size, that is between 39.9 m kr and 638.2 m kr in revenue. The median company in that group had revenue of 170.1 m kr.
How the company stands
Margin says how it went, the balance sheet says how the company stands
Two companies on the same margin can be in entirely different situations. These figures come from the balance sheet and say something about how well the company would take a bad quarter.
- 0.7Current ratioWorth a look
- What the company owes within the year is larger than what it holds to pay it. This is the most common reason otherwise healthy companies get into trouble. How many kroner the company holds in current assets for every krone falling due within the year. Below 1 means the bills coming due are larger than what there is to pay them with.
- 1.5Debt to equitySound
- The debt is manageable against the equity. How many kroner of debt the company carries per krone of equity. Lower is safer.
- -3.6Interest coverWorth a look
- Interest consumes a large share of the operating result. How many times the operating result covers the interest the company pays.
- 118 m krRetained earningsStrong
- The company has earned back more than was put in. How much the company has earned and kept across its whole life, beyond what the owners put in.
The gap
What the distance to the best performers amounts to
That is how much larger the operating profit would have been in 2025, had the company held the same margin as the median company in the top third of its industry (14.0 %), on the revenue it actually had. It is arithmetic on a distance, not a promise of a result.
Public contracts
Public contracts the company has won
We find 12 public contracts awarded to the company between 2022 and 2026. Total stated value is 22,733,279 euro.
| Year | Buyer | Value | Comes up again |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Trondheim kommune · framework agreement | 1,217,391 euro | |
| 2025 | Anskaffelser i Akershus, Buskerud og Østfold KO · framework agreement | not stated | |
| 2025 | Sandnes kommune · framework agreement | 504,348 euro | |
| 2025 | Bærum kommune · framework agreement | not stated | |
| 2024 | Universitetet i Stavanger · framework agreement | not stated | |
| 2024 | Kristiansand Kommune · framework agreement | not stated | |
| 2023 | Oslo kommune v/ DEICHMAN BIBLIOTEK · framework agreement | 18,609,071 euro | |
| 2023 | Vestfold og Telemark fylkeskommune | 742,383 euro | |
| 2023 | Tromsø kommune | 692,891 euro | |
| 2023 | Rogaland Fylkeskommune | 163,819 euro | |
| 2023 | Rogaland Fylkeskommune | 163,819 euro | |
| 2022 | Ålesund kommune · framework agreement | 639,556 euro |
A value is stated on 8 of 12 contracts. The total covers only those.
Contracts come from Doffin and TED. Our collection is not complete, and TED covers only contracts above the EEA threshold, so the figures are a floor and not a full count. We say what we find, not what exists.
History
How it has developed
| Year | Revenue | Operating profit | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 159.5 m kr | -183.9 m kr | -115.3 % |
| 2024 | 174.5 m kr | -27.8 m kr | -15.9 % |
| 2023 | 198.7 m kr | -19.3 m kr | -9.7 % |
| 2022 | 178.3 m kr | -18.3 m kr | -10.2 % |
| 2021 | 162.6 m kr | -13.6 m kr | -8.4 % |
| 2020 | 153.8 m kr | -8.1 m kr | -5.2 % |
| 2019 | 137.4 m kr | -8.7 m kr | -6.3 % |
| 2018 | 125.3 m kr | -7.4 m kr | -5.9 % |
| 2017 | 132 m kr | -3.7 m kr | -2.8 % |
| 2016 | 136.9 m kr | -1.1 m kr | -0.8 % |
| 2015 | 225.7 m kr | 94.1 m kr | 41.7 % |
Next step
The figures say where the company stands, not why
The accounts show the result of how the company is run, but say nothing about where in the working day the time and the money disappear. That is only found by walking through the flow itself, from the job coming in to the money being on the account.