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GC Rieber

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GC Rieber AS
Company typePrivate
Founded1879
FounderGottlieb Christian Rieber[1]
HeadquartersBergen, Norway
Area served
Global
Key people
Jan Roger Bjerkestrand (CEO)
ProductsSalt
Emergency foods
Omega-3 concentrates
Shipping
Real Estate
Corporate venture
Number of employees
800
Websitewww.gcrieber.no

GC Rieber is a private company that operates within the fields of real estate, shipping, food processing and industry. The company is based in Bergen, Norway. Operations are performed by the subsidiaries GC Rieber Shipping AS, GC Rieber Skinn AS, GC Rieber Salt AS, GC Rieber Oils, GC Rieber Compact AS and GC Rieber Eiendom AS.

As of 2023, the company also owned 13.67% of the shareholding of Fløibanen AS, the company that operates Bergen's well known funicular railway.[2]

The company was founded in 1879 by Gottlieb Christian Rieber. Gottlieb's brother, Fritz Carl Rieber, ran another company at the time, Rieber & Søn, which their father, Paul Gottlieb Rieber, had founded in 1839.[1] On 13 January 2003, GC Rieber owned 0.75% of Rieber & Søn's shares.[3]

On 1 June 2023, Jan Roger Bjerkestrand became the CEO of the company. Bjerkestrand has a Bachelor of Management and a Master's degree in Energy Management from BI Norwegian Business School, as well as completing the Authorized Financial Analyst Program (AFA). He previously held leadership positions at Nord Pool ASA, Hafslund ASA, and Aker ASA, and led Aker Clean Carbon AS before joining GC Rieber VivoMega AS as Managing Director in 2012.

References

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  1. ^ a b Den nye NHO-presidenten: Familiens mann Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine (Norwegian), NHO, 2008
  2. ^ "Årsrapport Fløibanen AS 2023" [Annual report Fløibanen AS 2023] (PDF) (in Norwegian). Fløibanen AS. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 November 2024. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
  3. ^ Rieber & Son ...a focused food company (.pdf-file) (Norwegian), Rieber & Søn, January 16, 2003
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