NACE 01.130

Margins and profitability in growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers

39 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median operating margin was 5.7 %, meaning what was left of revenue once every cost had been paid.

10 % 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 60,138,242NOK 60,138,242
Operating profitNOK 3,263,659NOK 6,023,173
Revenue per employeeNOK 1,517,858NOK 1,519,877

Revenue per employee is calculated on the 39 of 39 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 0.4 %, and one tenth above 11.8 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.

Top against weakest third

Top third
10.9 %
Weakest third
1.2 %
Spread
10 percentage points
Equity ratio
37.6 %median of 39

Geography

Where the companies are based

Where the companies are based
Kolbu2
Finnøy2
Orre2
Lier2
Rygge1
Skreia1

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

Public contracts

Who in the industry wins public contracts

1 of 39 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 2.6 %.

Only 1 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 1 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.

Who puts them out to tender
NTNU1

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 growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers

What is a normal operating margin in growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers?
The median operating margin was 5.7 %, meaning what was left of revenue once every cost had been paid. Half of the 39 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
What separates the best from the weakest in growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers?
The top third had an operating margin of 10.9 %, against 1.2 % for the weakest. The spread is 10 percentage points, within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
How many companies are there in growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers in Norway?
We hold filed accounts for 39 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 Growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers generate per employee?
The median company in Growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers turns over NOK 1.5m per employee. The figure is calculated on the 39 of 39 companies that report an employee count.
How many are loss-making in growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers?
10 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
How large is a typical company in growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers?
Median revenue is NOK 60.1m. Half of the companies fall between NOK 33.5m and NOK 87.3m.
How much do public contracts matter in growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers?
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. 39 companies registered on industry code 01.130 (Growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers) 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.

39 companies · Brønnøysund Register Centre · Open tenders in this industry