Fjordland
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Fjordland is a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 food manufacture
Food manufacture
Food manufacture is the process by which food is manufactured.-History:Early food processing techniques were limited by the available food preservation, packaging and transportation. Early food processing mainly involved salting, curing, curdling, drying, pickling and smoking...

r that produces easy made dinners, margarine
Margarine
Margarine , as a generic term, can indicate any of a wide range of butter substitutes, typically composed of vegetable oils. In many parts of the world, the market share of margarine and spreads has overtaken that of butter...

, yoghurt
Yoghurt
Yoghurt, yogurt or yogourt is a dairy product produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. The bacteria used to make yoghurt are known as "yoghurt cultures"...

 and other dessert dairy products. It is owned by the three agricultural cooperatives Tine
Tine (company)
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, Nortura
Nortura
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...

 and Hoff
HOFF Norske Potetindustrier
HOFF Norske Potetindustrier is a Norwegian agricultural cooperative processing and distributing potato produce. The company is owned by 4,000 farmers and has plants in Inderøy , Gjøvik, Brumunddal, Skjetten, Stange and Klepp...

 and uses raw products from the three owners as well as seafood
Seafood
Seafood is any form of marine life regarded as food by humans. Seafoods include fish, molluscs , crustaceans , echinoderms . Edible sea plants, such as some seaweeds and microalgae, are also seafood, and are widely eaten around the world, especially in Asia...

. In addition to dinners branded as Fjordland, the company makes the product brands Brelett
Brelett
Brelett is a Norwegian brand of margarine produced by Fjordland. It has a market share of 72% in the domestic light margarine category. The margarine contains both milk and vegetable fats, giving it a more buttery taste than pure margarine...

, Bremykt, Kos, Safari and Yoplait
Yoplait
Yoplait is a brand of yogurt produced by a company owned by two French holdings, SODIAAL and PAI Partners.-History:In 1964, 100,000 French farmers merged their regional dairy cooperatives to sell nationally. In 1965, two co-ops, "Yola" and "Coplait", merged, becoming "Yoplait"...

.

The company was founded in 1994 by Tine with the responsibility of producing Bremykt, Brelett and Tine Grøt. In 1996 Norsk Kjøttsamvirke, Norske Potetindustrier and Prior Norge
Prior Norge
Prior Norge is a defunct Norwegian white meat and egg processing company organised as an agricultural cooperative. The company merged with Gilde Norsk Kjøtt in 2006 to create Nortura. The Prior brand is still used.-History:...

bought part of the company. The dinner courses were launched in 1997.
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