From our fisheries and fish farms, our 3,800 employees deliver seafood corresponding to five million meals, every single day.
Lerøy is involved in every stage of the production of salmon, trout, whitefish and shellfish. In other words, we are not only involved in catches and fish farming, we also package and process fish at our plants and deliver thousands of different products to shops, restaurants, canteens and hotels – in more than 70 different countries worldwide.
One important element in Lerøy Seafood Group’s strategy is to be a fully integrated supplier of the company's key products, and the business is operated, as mentioned, via a number of subsidiaries in Norway and abroad.
The Group reports within three segments:
- Farming
- Wild Catch/Whitefish/VAP (Value Added Processing)
- Sales & Distribution.
The Group views itself as a local company with a global perspective, and shall have local roots in the locations where they have operations. This helps ensure that the Group makes a contribution in all local communities, irrespective of region and nationality.
Farming
Comprises the Group's activities involving production of salmon and trout, and includes harvesting and an increasing volume of filleting. The Group’s companies in this segment – Lerøy Aurora, Lerøy Midt and Lerøy Sjøtroll – represent a major employer along the Norwegian coastline, and strive to be visible and active in all the regions in which they operate.
Wild Catch/Whitefish/VAP
Comprises businesses acquired in 2016, when Lerøy Seafood Group became the sole owner of both Havfisk ASA and Norway Seafoods Group AS. These are businesses with substantial operations within the catch and processing of whitefish in Norway. Havfisk currently has nine trawlers, while Lerøy Norway Seafoods runs factories in Berlevåg, Båtsfjord, Forsøl, Kjøllefjord, Melbu, Stamsund, Sørvær and Tromvik. Lerøy also has facilities in Bulandet and on Sommarøy island. The VAP segment is mainly involved in high-value processing of salmon and trout, but also other species. The segment’s facilities are located on the island of Osterøy outside of Bergen, in Smøgen in Sweden, in the Netherlands and in Turkey. The segment's products are increasingly sold to the global market.
Sales & Distribution
Lerøy has a global reach, comprising sales, marketing, product development, distribution and simple processing of the Group’s own raw materials, as well as a large volume of raw materials from partners and a network of suppliers. In this segment, Lerøy Seafood Group has wholesalers, factories and seafood centres in a number of different markets.