Lerøy Seafood Group to acquire Aurora Salmon AS – Fishupdate.com

Lerøy Seafood Group to acquire Aurora Salmon AS Published:  23 June, 2005

THE part-owners of Scottish Seafarms, Lerøy Seafood Group ASA (LSG) has reached agreement with Nordlandsbanken Invest AS to acquire all the shares of Aurora Salmon AS (Aurora).

The company Aurora Salmon AS is a fishfarming company with a total of 16 wholly owned licenses for farming of salmon/sea reared rainbow trout and a processing factory in Norway. The company has 65 employees with a head office in Tromsø. All production is localised along the coastline of Troms.

The acquisition of the shares in Aurora Salmon AS is a strengthening of LSG’s position in the international seafood business.

www.fishupdate.com is published by Special Publications. Special Publications also publish European Fish Trader, Fishing Monthly, Fish Farming Today, Fish Farmer, the Fish Industry Yearbook, the Scottish Seafood Processors Federation Diary, the Fish Farmer Handbook and a range of wallplanners.