NACE 10.203

Margins and profitability in freezing and further processing of fish, crustaceans and molluscs

92 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median operating margin was 1.7 %, meaning what was left of revenue once every cost had been paid.

34 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.

In kroner

Revenue and operating profit

Revenue and operating profit
Median companyTop third
RevenueNOK 153,079,956NOK 140,294,300
Operating profitNOK 2,359,784NOK 13,511,464
Revenue per employeeNOK 3,980,179NOK 3,399,086

Revenue per employee is calculated on the 92 of 92 companies that report an employee count, as the median of the ratio within each company.

Median, not mean. A mean would be pulled up by the largest companies in the industry, and would say little about a typical one.

The distribution

What companies in the industry earned

One tenth of companies fell below -7.3 %, and one tenth above 9.2 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.

Top against weakest third

Top third
7.4 %
Weakest third
-4.0 %
Spread
11 percentage points
Equity ratio
39.1 %median of 92

Size

Profitability by size

Profitability by size
RevenueCompaniesMedian operating margin
20 to 100 m240.9 %
over 100 m631.5 %

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.

Geography

Where the companies are based

Where the companies are based
Ellingsøy4
Ålesund3
Tromsø3
Avaldsnes2
Fiskarstrand2
Røst2

The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.

Public contracts

Who in the industry wins public contracts

5 of 92 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 5.4 %.

Only 5 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.

Who puts them out to tender

The 13 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.

Who puts them out to tender
Alta kommune3
Moss kommune2
Bergen kommune - Innkjøp konsern1
Oslo kommune v/ Sykehjemsetaten1
Viken Vest Innkjøpssamarbeid (VVI)1

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 operating margin was 1.7 %, meaning what was left of revenue once every cost had been paid. Half of the 92 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 had an operating margin of 7.4 %, against -4.0 % for the weakest. The spread is 11 percentage points, 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 92 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 much revenue does a company in Freezing and further processing of fish, crustaceans and molluscs generate per employee?
The median company in Freezing and further processing of fish, crustaceans and molluscs turns over NOK 4m per employee. The figure is calculated on the 92 of 92 companies that report an employee count.
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 NOK 153.1m. Half of the companies fall between NOK 80.8m and NOK 479.1m.
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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Method. 92 companies registered on industry code 10.203 (Freezing and further processing of fish, crustaceans and molluscs) with filed accounts and at least one million kroner in revenue. The figures come from the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises and are public. Operating margin is operating profit divided by operating revenue.

All figures are from the 2025 accounts as filed with the Brønnøysund Register Centre. The year comes from the accounting period, not from the filing date, so every company appears with the year its figures actually cover.

We show one cross-section and no trend line. Our database has broad coverage for 2024 and 2025, but only a small and non-random sample for the years before. A curve over a longer period would therefore measure who we happened to collect, not what happened in the industry.

Companies with under one million in revenue are excluded, because dormant limited companies would otherwise pull the median down. We do not publish an industry page until we hold at least 30 companies.

This is a description of an industry, not a ranking of companies. We name no individual company here.

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