Forfatter: Anne-Marit Wang
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Fighting over 24 hour grocery concept
Within two months, two 24 hour grocery stores have opened on Grønland. The owners are arguing about who had the idea first.
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Straight Home and straight to the top
After Ica gave up home delivery of groceries in 2004, those who took over have managed to create a profitable business with an online grocery store. Over 3000 companies in the Oslo region are customers, operations manager Roy Berg Paulsen…
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A bad summer is bad for business
Bad weather is bad news for ice cream. Kulinaris, one of the smallest ice cream factories in Norway, located in Kolbotn, ended up with half a million less in turnover in 2009 than the year before.
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Refuse to give up rent-a-bag business
Inspired by the movie Sex and the City, where Carrie’s assistant rents designer bags she can’t afford, Heidi Krogh and Cecilia Hanisch started their own rent-a-bag business. So far business have been slow, but the founders refuse to give up.
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Acquisitions from Maridalsveien
Proact IT Norway based in Maridalsveien buys its way up in Denmark, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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Jan Thomas – still in the red
Celebrity Stylist Jan Thomas Mørch Husby noted another year of losses in his salon in Parkveien
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Parking fees destroys city shopping
Expensive parking fees in the center of Oslo are an important reason for why Oslo's retail industry loose in the battle for customers.
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Companies are sticking to sober celebrations
While Petter Stordalen is known for throwing himself a rave whenever he changes his socks, other firms are more cautious in celebrating themselves.
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Need finance to test new birth control for men
Company Spermatech is valued at 60 million before the share issue in order to raise capital that will take the company over to the test phase of the active ingredient that will become a birth control pill for men.
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This weeks editorial:
Setting a location requirement for managers of oil money can be a way to go to make Oslo into a financial capital of Europe.