Nortura

Nortura SA

Type	Cooperative
Industry	Meat processing
Founded	2006
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Area served	Norway
Products	Gilde Prior Terina Alfathi Eldhus Thulefjord
Revenue	NOK 23,545 billion (2017)
Operating income	NOK 153 million (2017)
Net income	26,000,000 Norwegian krone (2018)
Number of employees	5231 (2017)
Website	www.nortura.no

Nortura is a Norwegian agricultural cooperative that operates slaughterhouses and other processing plants related to meat and eggs. The company was created as a merger between Gilde Norsk Kjøtt and Prior Norge in 2006, and has head offices in Oslo.

Nortura is Norway's biggest food supplier.^[1] It processed 222 thousand tonnes of meat at 31 plants in 2017.

The company is owned by about 18,900 farmers throughout the country and is one of 13 agricultural cooperatives in Norway. Annual revenue is NOK 23,5 billion. The main brands include Gilde (red meat), Prior (white meat and eggs), Terina (frozen and canned foods), Alfathi (halal slaughtered meat), Eldhus (smoked meat) and Thulefjord (products from Northern Norway).

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