NACE 47.110
Margins and profitability in non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco
627 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median operating margin was 1.9 %, meaning what was left of revenue once every cost had been paid.
12 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.
In kroner
Revenue and operating profit
| Median company | Top third | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | NOK 89,253,947 | NOK 86,393,788 |
| Operating profit | NOK 1,653,471 | NOK 3,983,651 |
| Revenue per employee | NOK 3,200,515 | NOK 2,706,648 |
Revenue per employee is calculated on the 627 of 627 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 -0.2 %, and one tenth above 5.5 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
- Top third
- 4.4 %
- Weakest third
- 0.3 %
- Spread
- 4 percentage points
- Equity ratio
- 20.9 %median of 627
Size
Profitability by size
| Revenue | Companies | Median operating margin |
|---|---|---|
| 5 to 20 m | 23 | 0.8 % |
| 20 to 100 m | 350 | 1.8 % |
| over 100 m | 251 | 2.0 % |
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.
Geography
Where the companies are based
| Oslo | 48 | |
| Lierstranda | 17 | |
| Trondheim | 8 | |
| Bergen | 8 | |
| Skien | 7 | |
| Tromsø | 6 |
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 627 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 0.8 %.
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 17 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
| Hå kommune | 2 | |
| Bergen kommune - Innkjøp konsern | 2 | |
| Øvre Romerike Innkjøpssamarbeid | 1 | |
| Vennesla kommune | 1 | |
| Drammen kommune | 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 non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco
- What is a normal operating margin in non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco?
- The median operating margin was 1.9 %, meaning what was left of revenue once every cost had been paid. Half of the 627 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco?
- The top third had an operating margin of 4.4 %, against 0.3 % for the weakest. The spread is 4 percentage points, within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 627 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 Non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco generate per employee?
- The median company in Non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco turns over NOK 3.2m per employee. The figure is calculated on the 627 of 627 companies that report an employee count.
- How many are loss-making in non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco?
- 12 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco?
- Median revenue is NOK 89.3m. Half of the companies fall between NOK 61.9m and NOK 122.5m.
- How much do public contracts matter in non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco?
- We find almost no public contracts in this industry since 2022, so public procurement appears to play little role here.
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