Margins and profitability in freezing and further processing of fish, crustaceans and molluscs
89 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 2.5 % of every krone.
34 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.
The distribution
What companies in the industry earned
One tenth of companies fell below -12.9 %, and one tenth above 11.5 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
Size
Profitability by size
| Revenue | Companies | Median operating margin |
|---|---|---|
| 20 to 100 m | 25 | 0.4 % |
| over 100 m | 56 | 3.0 % |
Companies are split into revenue bands, with the median margin in each. Bands with fewer than ten companies are omitted, because the median becomes too unstable to show.
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
4 of 89 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 4.5 %.
Only 4 companies in the industry have won a public contract since 2022. That is too few for us to say how large they are compared with the rest.
The 10 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Alta kommune3
- Eigersund kommune1
- Kåfjord Kommune1
- Moss kommune1
- Ofa Iks1
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.
Questions and answers
Common questions about freezing and further processing of fish, crustaceans and molluscs
- What is a normal operating margin in freezing and further processing of fish, crustaceans and molluscs?
- The median company kept 2.5 % of every krone. That means half of the 89 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in freezing and further processing of fish, crustaceans and molluscs?
- The top third kept 8.6 % of every krone, against -5.6 % for the weakest third. The spread is 14 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in freezing and further processing of fish, crustaceans and molluscs in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 89 Norwegian companies on this industry code with at least one million kroner in revenue. The real number is higher, since dormant and very small companies are excluded.
- How many are loss-making in freezing and further processing of fish, crustaceans and molluscs?
- 34 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in freezing and further processing of fish, crustaceans and molluscs?
- Median revenue is 139.1 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 60.8 m kr and 596.9 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in freezing and further processing of fish, crustaceans and molluscs?
- We find almost no public contracts in this industry since 2022, so public procurement appears to play little role here.
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