Transport in Norway is highly influenced by Norway's low population density, narrow shape and long coastline. Norway has old water transport traditions, but road, rail and air transport have increased in importance during the 20th century. Due to the low population density, public transport is somewhat less built out in rural areas of Norway, however public transport in, and around cities is well developed.
Bergens Tidende is Norway's fifth-largest newspaper, and the country's largest newspaper outside Oslo.
Storebrand is a financial services company in Norway. By volume, the company's main activities are related to life insurance and pension savings. However, the company also has major divisions working on investments, banking and, until 1999 and again since 2006, P&C insurance products. Through its acquisition of Swedish SPP from Handelsbanken in 2007, Storebrand gained a sizable division dedicated to the Swedish market for life insurance.
Vital Forsikring ASA, branded as Vital is Norway's largest life insurance and pension insurance company, and part of the DnB NOR Group. Though Vital has roots back to 1847, it was created in its present form by a merger between Vital and Gjensidige NOR's life insurance section after the mother companies merged in 2003. Vital has its headquarters in Bergen, Norway and has total assets of 200 billion kr.
Gjensidige Forsikring ASA is a Norwegian insurance company. The company traces its roots back to 1816 when a fire mutual was founded as Land Gjensidige Brandkasse in what is today Oppland county. Gjensidige demutualised and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange in December 2010. The firm, headquartered in Oslo, has a market share of some 25% (2016) in the Norwegian insurance market. The company has 36 branch offices in Norway, not including affiliated fire mutuals, and 1 million customers. Gjensidige has subsidiaries in Denmark, Sweden and The Baltics.
EDB Business Partner ASA, trading as EDB was a Norwegian information technology company that supplied many services relating to computing, including operation, outsourcing and online banking. The company was headquartered in Oslo and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Telenor owned 51.3% of EDB. EDB BP has wholly owned subsidiaries in Sweden and Denmark, and more recently acquired the majority of Miratech and Infopulse, which are Ukrainian IT companies.
Nord Pool AS is a pan-European power exchange. Nord Pool has a main office in Lysaker (Oslo) and further offices in Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Berlin and London. The company is owned by the European exhange operator Euronext as well as TSO Holding, which represents the continental Nordic and Baltic countries' Transmission system operators. Nord Pool has two subsidiaries, Nord Pool AB and Nord Pool Finland Oy.
The Association of Norwegian Insurance Companies was an employers' organisation in Norway.
EVRY A/S was a Norwegian information technology company that supplies services relating to computing, including operation, outsourcing, and online banking. The company is headquartered in Oslo. It was established through a merger between EDB Business Partner and ErgoGroup in 2010 and has 10,000 employees at 135 offices in 16 countries.
Livsforsikringsselskapet Hygea was a life insurance company based in Bergen, Norway.
Norske Folk was a life insurance company based in Norway.
UNI Forsikring was an insurance group based in Norway.
Forsikringsselskapet Norge was a general insurance company based in Drammen, Norway.
Eqology is a Norway-based multi-level marketing company established in 1998 with operations in most of Europe. Eqology develops, produces and distributes nutrition and skin care products through independent distributors.
Vardia Insurance Group is a Norwegian insurance company, headquartered in Oslo, Norway. The company has operations in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The company was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange in 2014.
Norway Royal Salmon ASA is a Norwegian fish farm company, headquartered in Trondheim, Norway with a sales office in Kristiansand.
RenoNorden is a Norwegian multinational waste collection company headquartered in Frogner, Norway.
Anne Carine Tanum is a Norwegian business executive. She is the former owner and managing director of the Tanum chain of bookstores in the Oslo area which was sold to Egmont in 2006. The current chair of DNB and Litteraturhuset, in May 2015 she was appointed chair of the board of directors of the Norwegian Opera.
Bank Norwegian AS is a Norwegian digital bank which provides loans, credit cards and savings accounts to consumers. The company was founded in November 2007 and is headquartered at Fornebu, Norway and have customers in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Spain. Bank Norwegian cooperates with Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA on their loyalty program available in selected markets. in 2021, the bank has more than 1,7 million customers in total.
Hudya is a Nordic fintech company. The company has developed a digital platform simplifying the purchase of traditional consumer services such as electricity, telecom, insurance and banking services. Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, Hudya has 32 subsidiaries in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, offering their services to customers in all Scandinavian countries. Hudya’s first product, Hudya Power, was launched in Norway in March 2017.
