GC Rieber is a private company that operates within the fields of marine oils, pelt

Fur

Fur is a synonym for hair, used more in reference to non-human animals, usually mammals; particularly those with extensives body hair coverage. The term is sometimes used to refer to the body hair of an animal as a complete coat, also known as the "pelage". Fur is also used to refer to animal...

s, salt

Salt

In chemistry, salts are ionic compounds that result from the neutralization reaction of an acid and a base. They are composed of cations and anions so that the product is electrically neutral...

 including for agriculture and nutrients. The company is based in Bergen

Bergen

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, Norway

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...

. Operations are performed by the subsidiaries

Subsidiary

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 GC Rieber Skinn AS, GC Rieber Salt AS, Carino Company Limited, GC Rieber Eiendom AS and GC Rieber Oils AS. It also holds a stake in the former subsidiary and now publicly traded company GC Rieber Shipping

GC Rieber Shipping

GC Rieber Shipping is a Norwegian shipping company that operates offshore subsea support vessels, marine seismic vessels and polar logistics and research expeditions. Based in Bergen, Norway it is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. A major owner is GC Rieber....

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Rieber also have subsidiaries in Canada

Canada

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 (Carino Ltd.), Russia

Russia

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, China

China

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, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 and Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

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The company's CEO, Paul-Christian Rieber

Paul-Christian Rieber

Paul-Christian Rieber is a Norwegian business leader and former president of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise . He lives in Bergen, Norway....

, is also a former president of the main representative body for Norwegian employers, the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise

Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise

The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise is an employers' organisation in Norway with more than 16,000 members.It was founded in 1989 as a merger of the Federation of Norwegian Industries, the Norwegian Employers' Confederation and the Federation of Norwegian Craftsmen..The president is Kristin...

. He stepped down following a controversy involving GC Rieber.

The company was founded in 1879 by Gottlieb Christian Rieber. Gottlieb's brother, Fritz Carl Rieber, run another company at the time, Rieber & Søn

Rieber & Søn

Rieber & Søn is a Norwegian food manufacturing company the owns and produces a wide range of products and brands. The company is based in Bergen with more than 25 brands in 12 countries, of which 7 have manufacturing plants...

, which their father, Paul Gottlieb Rieber, had founded in 1839. Per January 13, 2003, GC Rieber owned 0.75 percent of Rieber & Søn’s shares.