Norway Foods: version 1
Saved 2026-09-21 01:51 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by review: Reviewed the brand against its sources, all re-fetched today. Removed the closing About paragraph that narrated what the research did not find (no Commons logo, no month or day for the 1902 permission. This is the current version.
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# Norway Foods <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Norway Foods
summary: Stavanger food group formed in 1981 from the remaining Norwegian brisling canneries, holder of the King Oscar brand until Rieber & Søn bought it in 1996.
legal_name: Norway Foods AS
country: NO
founded: 1981
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| owned_by | company/rieber-soen | | 1996 | | | sourced | ^snl | Store norske leksikon and the Norwegian Wikipedia article on Chr. Bjelland & Co both put Rieber & Søn's purchase in 1996 |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | --------- | ------- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| | office | Stavanger | NO | ^bjelland | Head office of the group formed in the 1981 cannery merger |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Norway Foods AS | legal | nb | | |
| Norway Foods Ltd. | legal | nb | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| -------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | --------------------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| snl | https://snl.no/Norway_Foods | Store norske leksikon: Norway Foods | 2026-09-21 | Store norske leksikon | publication | | | | | | |
| bjelland | https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chr._Bjelland_%26_Co | Wikipedia (Norwegian): Chr. Bjelland & Co, the Stavanger cannery and the 1981 merger into Norway Foods | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | | | |
| wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Oscar_(company) | Wikipedia: King Oscar (company) | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | | | |
| spwiki | https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stavanger_Preserving | Wikipedia (Norwegian): Stavanger Preserving, the first cannery in Stavanger, founded 1873 | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Norwegian food company formed in Stavanger in 1981, when the remaining Norwegian producers of canned brisling merged into one group; King Oscar was its most important trademark.[^snl] Chr. Bjelland & Co, until then the largest of them, handed all its production to the new group and became a property and holding company, and the last Bjelland factory at Verven in Stavanger ran until the spring of 1983.[^bjelland] Norway Foods held the King Oscar brand from the merger until Rieber & Søn bought the company in 1996, the step that carried the brand into the Bergen food group and, later, out of Norwegian canning altogether.[^snl][^wiki] Store norske leksikon gives the legal name as Norway Foods AS; the Norwegian Wikipedia articles on Chr. Bjelland & Co and Stavanger Preserving call the 1981 group Norway Foods Ltd.[^snl][^bjelland][^spwiki]
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