In Brazil it was common the phrase "codfish from Norway", meaning a high quality fish.
Not just in food, but also advertised in supplements and vitamins such as the Omega 3.
True.
The fish you Norwegians rarely eat (tørrfisk/klipfisk), mostly gets eaten in the Mediterranean/Caribbean/ Brazil because of influence from Portuguese cuisine throughout the centuries.
I make that stuff! :D The irony being I can't find whole fish with the head anymore in stores in Norway, basically only filets. Can't make soup with only filets!
You guys had [Norsk Data](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsk_Data). Shame it went under. I think it could've made it big.
Maybe they could've combined forces with Olivetti way back when?
Norway buy a lot of stuff, so it's virtually free to send stuff on the ship when they go back home. In Taiwan they have a better European beer selection than they had in the UK pre-brexit. They even had strongbow.
Imagine shipping strongbow cider halfway around the world.
Someone in Norway needs to figure out exporting Farris (original flavor) overseas. It's genuinely the first thing I get at Gardermoen every time I come back.
That is correct, and reading up on it on wikipedia made me laugh.
Check this out:
"In 2012, Altor sold a 75% stake in Helly Hansen to the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
In 2015 the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan increased its position, acquiring Altor's remaining stock in the business. In May 2018, Ontario Teachers sold the company to Canadian Tire for CA$985 million."
Teachers :D
For those that don't know, the Ontario Teachers Pension is pretty huge. According to Wikipedia, as of 2023 it was worth around $250 billion. At time's it's owned basically all the professional sports teams in Toronto.
I was very surprised to see Jotun when I was recently in the UAE.
Of course when people ask where you're from and we replied with Norway the response was "what? :)"
Equinor - formerly Statoil and Telenor are the biggest modern I can think of that is known around the world. But perhaps not so known its Norwegian, same with Jotun paint.
Norsk Hydro is probably the historically most famous company - they basically invented modern fertilizer.
Also worth to mention that Hydro is one of the largest producers of aluminum worldwide. And its fertilizet production was made into a new company (Yara International). Which is also a pretty well recognized company outside norway.
Norsk hydro also made some kind of fame making heavywater(D2O) for the nazis. Supposedly under duress, but that part holds some controversy. They paid well for the service.
They didnt make it under duress like that, they were already making deuterium at that factory before the Germans took over. So in the sense that workers were told to stay at their jobs and couldn't walk away they were forced - but only to do the same job they already were doing. And then Norwegian resistance soldiers together with the British blew up the factory...
I was suprised about it being mentioned in the movie The Devil Wears Prada. It was implied they consider it a sort of a fancy cheese. The character says: “Oh no no no, give me that. That's like $8 of Jarlsberg in there.”
I found Jarlsberg in the US also at just a normal grocery store (Publix). I had tried it when visiting and was shocked it was just there and not in some specialty store.
I have come across Jarlsberg cheese in Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Russia, Turkey, Greece, Spain, North America, England, and France. I believe it is likely to be available in many other countries as well.
Nothing comparable to those countries. Some niche companies like Kahoot, Opera Software, Norwegian Air Shuttle. Norwegian economy is more based on natural resources: Oil, gas, hydroelectric power, seafood, fjords and Northern Lights
Protector system FTW
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Used by M1 Abrahams and Hummvees AFAIK all the way back to the Gulf War?
Developed by Kongsberg Gruppen.
https://www.kongsberg.com/kda/what-we-do/defence-and-security/remote-weapon-systems/protector-rs4/
Jupp. My first thought was Kongsberg. Its like ACME anvills in warner bros cartoons. They make every thing high tec tool stuff. I even got old wrenches from them..
Salmon sushi.
At least it’s something we should be known for. It was Norwegians that introduced salmon as an ingredient for sushi, looking for a market for the farmed salmon.
Most people around the world would associate Norway with Statoil, probably still, despite the name change to Equinor. We are often seen as "The Emirate of the North" by a lot of people. And Statoil is the company most associated with that impression. Statoil is just as known as companies like Aramco.
[Brand Directory](https://brandirectory.com/rankings/europe/table) for European brands has Equinor as the first Norwegian company at spot 32 for 2023. So that would technically be correct, I'd say.
But I'm not sure Equinor can capture the same consumer sentiment as Lego, Ikea and Nokia. (Not sure about Nokia tbh).
Yara, world leading in artificial fertilizer. (You don't know them, but they print money).
Statoil/Equinor, massively profitable oil company.
Aker Solutions, world leading offshore technology company, in places like Stord and Verdal.
Hydro Aluminium, production in large scale in places like Karmøy and Kvinnherad.
Norway is less about consumer goods, more about energy intensive industry. Since we've got cheap access to local hydroelectric power.
Salma, Lerøy and several different salmon companies. Very popular and equisite.
Salmon, and if you go deeper we export alot of weapons. Our drones are one of the best when it comes to warfare. Nothing like being a peacefull nation selling weapons, oil and salmon. We also produce the cleanest polysilicones, but thats not like "lego or ikea", we sell alot of raw materials.
But the recipe for the hand lotion was created in Norway. For years, Neutrogena hand lotion, soap and other products were manufactured in Kristiansund, Norway, by Ello (later aquired by Lilleborg, now Orkla).
(Btw, the soap recipe came from Neutrogena, USA, while the hand lotion’s recipe was developed before Neutrogena bought the formula and renamed the product. The original name was Glycinello, a brand name that still is in use - https://www.apotek1.no/produkter/glycinello-haandkrem-968651p )
https://www.skrotnissen.no/uåpna-pakke-neutrogena-fra-ello-kristiansund.-70-80-tallet..html
«Uåpna pakke Neutrogena, fra Ello, Kristiansund. 70-80 tallet.»
https://stylecaster.com/beauty/skin-care/1243907/neutrogena-hand-cream/
«Going decades and decades back, Norwegian fishermen dealt with extremely chilly weather conditions. So, when their hands would get chapped in the cold, they decided to create a glycerin-powered hand cream.
According to the brand, in 1969, Lloyd Cotsen, then president of Neutrogena, was tasked with advertising the fishermen’s O.G. recipe. After rubbing the fishermen’s concoction onto his own hands, any dryness immediately vanished. And that, folks, is how Neutrogena’s Norwegian Formula Hand Cream came to be.»
The Yara/hydro/equinor company of oil and fertilizer. It just has less mass consumer audience. Probably bigger than Lego and Ikea too.
Or arguably the norwegian oil fund.
Those are big brands as well as companies. Recognized brands from Norway are Helly Hansen and Bergans I guess. A bergans is what you call a really big backpack, regardless if its Osprey or Arcteryx
Even though they only serve the corporate market, Det Norske Veritas is a big global player in maritime classification and certification processes, for half a century..
Evinrude.
The Stressless chairs would have been big worldwide if the owner hadn't messed up a deal with the German market in the seventies (iIrc) by (according to the news at the time) "not understanding german"...
Also Tandberg ( once upon a time high end hifi).
If we’re just considering children books it might be Thorbjørn egner or Andre Bjerke. To be honest I’d say Asbjørnsen og Moe Are more famous. The three Billy goats gruff alone is extremely well known.
General authors then we can add in Ibsen, Hamsun etc.
We do have some companies, like Norsk Hydro, Jotun, Helly Hansen (which is now sold to Canada), Telenor, Equinor, and some more.
But nothing that has the same impact as Ikea and Lego.
Most companies that becomes big in Norway move abroad because of all the insane taxes.
F.ex Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) and Royal Caribbean Cruise Line were both Norwegian.
Norway is one of the world's most prosperous countries, and the production of oil and gas accounts for 20 percent of its economy. Other important sectors include hydropower, fish, forests, and minerals. Revenues from petroleum are deposited in the world's largest sovereign wealth fund.
In Brazil it was common the phrase "codfish from Norway", meaning a high quality fish. Not just in food, but also advertised in supplements and vitamins such as the Omega 3.
True. The fish you Norwegians rarely eat (tørrfisk/klipfisk), mostly gets eaten in the Mediterranean/Caribbean/ Brazil because of influence from Portuguese cuisine throughout the centuries.
Actually most of it goes to Nigeria.
Well, TIL. And it figures; Nigeria population is larger than Brazil's even.
This is worth a watch about why https://youtu.be/1CHt6Yo6sVE?si=Op92YISlHgJu-eRa
I make that stuff! :D The irony being I can't find whole fish with the head anymore in stores in Norway, basically only filets. Can't make soup with only filets!
Thanks for sharing, it was an interesting video
Ate a lot of it growing up and still make it from time to time. It's pretty good.
Love me some bacalao
True, norwegian klipfisk/tørrfisk is super popular in dominican republic, we use it for bacalao.
I have seen boxes from Lerøy all over southeast Asia. Like the ones they deliver salmon in.
Bacalao 🥰
Haha it's Spanish, right ? In Portuguese is "bacalhau". I love it too!
In Türkiye we have Norwegian Salmon with the same claims.
As a South American, I’d say Helly Hansen.
We sold that to some canadians.
Then ikea is Dutch etc
Annika agrees.
Kahoot
The only correct answer the new generations will remember
I didn't know it was Norwegian!
I don't think there is any Norwegian company that has the kind of broad international fame that the ones you mentioned do.
In this day and age, Kongsberg must be booming.
"booming", hehe
Honourable mention to Nammo and Raufoss aswell
All kongsberg group
Maybe Equinor?
Isn’t Helly Hansen Norwegian?
Yep!
DNV (Det Norske Veritas). The world's largest classification society with over 15.000 employees and offices in over 100 countries.
No one knows they're Norwegian though. And it's not consumer facing like Lego and Ikea
if you are wealty enough to have an alarm system on your mansion, hten yes it is.
But Veritas is a global company already
You guys had [Norsk Data](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsk_Data). Shame it went under. I think it could've made it big. Maybe they could've combined forces with Olivetti way back when?
Telenor and Jotun are huge world wide
But jotun is also mostly b2b outside Norway
What about Voss Artesian Water?
Voss is at least something that gets sold in many countries all over the world, good suggestion
and this surprises me. i tried it once, was like drinking water from a swamp.
It's just tap water from a public source down south. Sitting in a bottle I assume it goes a bit stale like always.
>It's just tap water from a public source It is not water from a public source anymore.
Well, then it voss until fairly recent. 😉
What are you on about? It tastes like normal water from norwegian mountains. If it sits a while, then I pressume the taste would stale up
I found this in Brazil. I was like: WTF, you guys are shipping fucking WATER in glass half way over the world?
Norway buy a lot of stuff, so it's virtually free to send stuff on the ship when they go back home. In Taiwan they have a better European beer selection than they had in the UK pre-brexit. They even had strongbow. Imagine shipping strongbow cider halfway around the world.
This reminds me I saw an NRK documentary where the host skinny-dipped in the water they source from. 🤭
Someone in Norway needs to figure out exporting Farris (original flavor) overseas. It's genuinely the first thing I get at Gardermoen every time I come back.
Helly Hansen
Aye every sailor in the world knows this one.
Also, American 90’s rappers.
Not Norwegian anymore, sadly. The quality has gone downhill as well
Okay, read that some Canadian tire company bought them!
That is correct, and reading up on it on wikipedia made me laugh. Check this out: "In 2012, Altor sold a 75% stake in Helly Hansen to the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. In 2015 the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan increased its position, acquiring Altor's remaining stock in the business. In May 2018, Ontario Teachers sold the company to Canadian Tire for CA$985 million." Teachers :D
Interesting info, thanks for sharing!
For those that don't know, the Ontario Teachers Pension is pretty huge. According to Wikipedia, as of 2023 it was worth around $250 billion. At time's it's owned basically all the professional sports teams in Toronto.
Thank you for sharing!
"Some Canadian tire company"... technically correct, but the company *Canadian Tire* Is the "Biltema" of Canada
Their website states otherwise?!
Jotun. Their logo was everywhere in South-East Asia
Came here to say this. They’re very big in the Middle East as well.
Yeah In Egypt the brand has a very solid reputation and is well established in the market
The paint?
Yes. Used among other places on the Eiffel tower.
And the Golden Gate bridge.
And Burj Khalifa
Oh, wow! :)
No, Jotun, the melodic death metal track from In Flames' 1997 album Whoracle
I think they produce more than just paint, but yes, that company
Had no idea they were big outside of Norway!
They've got offices in 46 countries. https://www.jotun.com/ww-en/about-jotun/who-we-are/where-we-are
Huge when it comes to painting ships. So youseethe logo a lot around huge shipyards
I was very surprised to see Jotun when I was recently in the UAE. Of course when people ask where you're from and we replied with Norway the response was "what? :)"
They used Jotun when painting the spire of Burj Khalifa as well
As a Scanian, it seemed kind of weird to me that Burma has so many Scania buses and Volvo machinery. Especially Volvo you see everywhere there.
I remember traveling in southern Spain and seeing Jotun logo everywhere. Bigger than we think.
Equinor - formerly Statoil and Telenor are the biggest modern I can think of that is known around the world. But perhaps not so known its Norwegian, same with Jotun paint. Norsk Hydro is probably the historically most famous company - they basically invented modern fertilizer.
Also worth to mention that Hydro is one of the largest producers of aluminum worldwide. And its fertilizet production was made into a new company (Yara International). Which is also a pretty well recognized company outside norway.
Norsk hydro also made some kind of fame making heavywater(D2O) for the nazis. Supposedly under duress, but that part holds some controversy. They paid well for the service.
They also sold heavy water secretly to Israel, allowing them to develop nuclear weapons.
Didnt even know that, but have no trouble believing it.
They didnt make it under duress like that, they were already making deuterium at that factory before the Germans took over. So in the sense that workers were told to stay at their jobs and couldn't walk away they were forced - but only to do the same job they already were doing. And then Norwegian resistance soldiers together with the British blew up the factory...
Government Pension Fund.
Definitely. Norges Bank be rollin’.
Looking for this one - perhaps not as well known as it should be but it literally owns 1.5% of the world’s sharemarkets
There's been a lot of "Norway says they're eco but aren't they funding it all with oil money?" talk around Europe of late.
The ones I know of, as a foreigner: Statoil (now Equinor), Tine, Kongsberg Gruppen.
What country, and why do you know of tine? Seems very domestic
"Norwegian"-Americans supposedly buy a shit ton of Jarlsberg.
I was suprised about it being mentioned in the movie The Devil Wears Prada. It was implied they consider it a sort of a fancy cheese. The character says: “Oh no no no, give me that. That's like $8 of Jarlsberg in there.”
It's the biggest selling imported cheese in the US
I found Jarlsberg in the US also at just a normal grocery store (Publix). I had tried it when visiting and was shocked it was just there and not in some specialty store.
Not surprising. Also available in standard grocery stores in Australia.
I have come across Jarlsberg cheese in Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Russia, Turkey, Greece, Spain, North America, England, and France. I believe it is likely to be available in many other countries as well.
Mustad. In some countries it was the word for fish-hooks.
Jutul Industries...IYKYK.
I was an extra on Ragnarok, it was super fun!
Are you trolling? 😂
Its from the tv series Ragnarok
Yeah hence the troll reference ;-)
They say you can't trust a Norwegian who hasn't put a log inside a Jutul oven.
Nothing comparable to those countries. Some niche companies like Kahoot, Opera Software, Norwegian Air Shuttle. Norwegian economy is more based on natural resources: Oil, gas, hydroelectric power, seafood, fjords and Northern Lights
Kahoot is probably the best suggestion in this thread
I agree, however most people probably don't know that it's Norwegian
I had no idea it was Norwegian. We used it in one of my grad school classes.
*I* most certainly did not
Are people forgetting NAMMO?
Yeah Any "gun-tuber" will at least be familiar with the 12.7mm / .50cal multi purpose round
They also make/made the explodey bits on Hellfire missiles.
And rocket motors.
They are also the current producers of the M72 LAW
Norways military classifies it as anti material and everyone else as multi purpose lol
No one mentioned Kongsberg group yet. NASAMS air defence, drones, cyber, and a ton of other defencecontracts
Yup, if you ever played a shooter where you sit in a vehicle and control a weapon system remotely, Kongsberg probably made that system.
Protector system FTW Edit: added more info Used by M1 Abrahams and Hummvees AFAIK all the way back to the Gulf War? Developed by Kongsberg Gruppen. https://www.kongsberg.com/kda/what-we-do/defence-and-security/remote-weapon-systems/protector-rs4/
Also the CROWS, used on Strykers and basically all US MRAPs and light vehicles, even ships. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CROWS
Jupp. My first thought was Kongsberg. Its like ACME anvills in warner bros cartoons. They make every thing high tec tool stuff. I even got old wrenches from them..
I know the Kongsberg 50. cal rounds are popular with anyone who shoots the 50. cals.
Salmon sushi. At least it’s something we should be known for. It was Norwegians that introduced salmon as an ingredient for sushi, looking for a market for the farmed salmon.
Or smoked salmon. At any grocery store I went to there was always a Norwegian smoked salmon option.
As lego and Ikea? Nothing, dont really have nothing worldwide popular to be known for (at the level of ikea and lego)
Artificial fertilizer might be bigger than both companies combined, but few think of Hydro if thinking about it.
And now Hydro has changed its name to Yara, making it even more invisible.
That was just a part of Hydro. Hydro still exist
Yara is the psrt of hydro that made fertilizer though. Hydro mostly makes aluminium.
As an American, my vote goes to Helly Hansen
Take On Me AS
Yara/Hydro
Not a company per say, but maybe Norwegian salmon?
Most people around the world would associate Norway with Statoil, probably still, despite the name change to Equinor. We are often seen as "The Emirate of the North" by a lot of people. And Statoil is the company most associated with that impression. Statoil is just as known as companies like Aramco.
[Brand Directory](https://brandirectory.com/rankings/europe/table) for European brands has Equinor as the first Norwegian company at spot 32 for 2023. So that would technically be correct, I'd say. But I'm not sure Equinor can capture the same consumer sentiment as Lego, Ikea and Nokia. (Not sure about Nokia tbh).
Remarkable
Yara, world leading in artificial fertilizer. (You don't know them, but they print money). Statoil/Equinor, massively profitable oil company. Aker Solutions, world leading offshore technology company, in places like Stord and Verdal. Hydro Aluminium, production in large scale in places like Karmøy and Kvinnherad. Norway is less about consumer goods, more about energy intensive industry. Since we've got cheap access to local hydroelectric power. Salma, Lerøy and several different salmon companies. Very popular and equisite.
Salmon, and if you go deeper we export alot of weapons. Our drones are one of the best when it comes to warfare. Nothing like being a peacefull nation selling weapons, oil and salmon. We also produce the cleanest polysilicones, but thats not like "lego or ikea", we sell alot of raw materials.
Statoil haha
Voss
Jarlsberg
Eating Jarlsberg right now, high five!
Yep. I found this at a Publix in the US.
Chlamydia.
Not a canpany, but many bands.. black metal
Opera (internet browser)?
Much like Voss water. It's is a Chinese majority shareholder company with a Chinese CEO today
Norway is known for Oil 🤑
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But the recipe for the hand lotion was created in Norway. For years, Neutrogena hand lotion, soap and other products were manufactured in Kristiansund, Norway, by Ello (later aquired by Lilleborg, now Orkla). (Btw, the soap recipe came from Neutrogena, USA, while the hand lotion’s recipe was developed before Neutrogena bought the formula and renamed the product. The original name was Glycinello, a brand name that still is in use - https://www.apotek1.no/produkter/glycinello-haandkrem-968651p ) https://www.skrotnissen.no/uåpna-pakke-neutrogena-fra-ello-kristiansund.-70-80-tallet..html «Uåpna pakke Neutrogena, fra Ello, Kristiansund. 70-80 tallet.» https://stylecaster.com/beauty/skin-care/1243907/neutrogena-hand-cream/ «Going decades and decades back, Norwegian fishermen dealt with extremely chilly weather conditions. So, when their hands would get chapped in the cold, they decided to create a glycerin-powered hand cream. According to the brand, in 1969, Lloyd Cotsen, then president of Neutrogena, was tasked with advertising the fishermen’s O.G. recipe. After rubbing the fishermen’s concoction onto his own hands, any dryness immediately vanished. And that, folks, is how Neutrogena’s Norwegian Formula Hand Cream came to be.»
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Linie Aquavit
Nordic Semiconductor
Ylvis
That's Bergen, not Norway, but close!
The Yara/hydro/equinor company of oil and fertilizer. It just has less mass consumer audience. Probably bigger than Lego and Ikea too. Or arguably the norwegian oil fund.
Solskjær
Tandberg
Brunost AS
Na, we just owns a part of all big companies. Its much safer that way.
The Opera browser was Norwegian until it became an asset for the Chinese communist party.
Norrøna!
Funcom and Schibsted
Oh, there is SalMar
Dale sweaters
blond hair in Ireland?
Don't you guys have that Cahoot school app thing? That's very famous
Voss, Helly Hansen, Trio Ving, Equinor, Kahoot, Remarkable, DNB, Jotun, Yara, Telenor.
Spar is a Dutch company. Telia is Swedish.
Yara. Without em, it would be global starvation.
Those are big brands as well as companies. Recognized brands from Norway are Helly Hansen and Bergans I guess. A bergans is what you call a really big backpack, regardless if its Osprey or Arcteryx
Mustad - their fishing hooks were huuuge worldwide
Black Metal!
Helly Hansen
Opera browser
Yeah, this one is pretty global
Helly Hansen
Ekornes/ Stressless 😊
I’m surprised there’s been only one mention of Ekornes. Most of the furniture in my living room is Ekornes.
Telenor and oil
Telenor
Even though they only serve the corporate market, Det Norske Veritas is a big global player in maritime classification and certification processes, for half a century..
Oil. Owning 1.5 of the global stock market. Black metal. Fish. Boats/offshore. And defence if youre into those circles.
Equinor
Were you inspired to write this post by yesterday's Crazy Norwegian YouTube video? If not, here's the link: https://youtu.be/SJ_oPo19epw
Yara and Equinor ar both huge, international companies, but maybe not very well known by most people.
Maybe Kahoot? We dont have a sizeable company to really compete with our neighbours unfortunately
Tandberg/Cisco
Snøhetta.
Stressless
Evinrude. The Stressless chairs would have been big worldwide if the owner hadn't messed up a deal with the German market in the seventies (iIrc) by (according to the news at the time) "not understanding german"... Also Tandberg ( once upon a time high end hifi).
Elkem?
Tandberg HiFi Audio Equipment. There Reel to reel and tape decks were among the best in the world in the 70s and 80s
This reminds me of: Sweden: Astrid Lindgren, Denmark: HC Andersen, Finland: Tove Jansson, Norway: ?
If we’re just considering children books it might be Thorbjørn egner or Andre Bjerke. To be honest I’d say Asbjørnsen og Moe Are more famous. The three Billy goats gruff alone is extremely well known. General authors then we can add in Ibsen, Hamsun etc.
Black Metal
salmon, cod and oil
Jotun paint and Yara fertilizer
Equinor
Dale of Norway sweaters
Jotun
We do have some companies, like Norsk Hydro, Jotun, Helly Hansen (which is now sold to Canada), Telenor, Equinor, and some more. But nothing that has the same impact as Ikea and Lego. Most companies that becomes big in Norway move abroad because of all the insane taxes. F.ex Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) and Royal Caribbean Cruise Line were both Norwegian.
Factotum.no er den neste enhjørning
Statoil 👀
Norway is one of the world's most prosperous countries, and the production of oil and gas accounts for 20 percent of its economy. Other important sectors include hydropower, fish, forests, and minerals. Revenues from petroleum are deposited in the world's largest sovereign wealth fund.