Type Food supplier Divisions Several (read more) | Founded 1931 | |
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Founder Erik Berggren, Victor Weyde and Olle Sjöstedt Products Food and nutrition for farmed fish Subsidiaries EWOS Vietnam JSC, Statkorn Aqua AS, EWOS AS | ||
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EWOS or EWOS Group, was bought by Cargill in 2015 and was then one of the world's largest suppliers of feed and nutrition for farmed fish. The company, which was created in 1931, is now owned by Cargill. Former EWOS companies operate in Canada, Chile, Norway, Scotland and Vietnam as part of Cargill Animal Nutrition, CAN.
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Ewos growth index
History
EWOS was established in 1931 by Erik Berggren, Victor Weyde and Olle Sjöstedt, names from which the acronym derives. In the beginning the production volumes were low, but from 1980 and onwards, the average annual growth rate has been 18%. Today, EWOS provides feed and nutrition for 28 different fish species with salmon as the major species
Enterprise
At the time of Cargill's acquisition, EWOS Group consisted of subsidiary companies in five countries, as well as an R&D company. The five were:
In 2010 EWOS entered the market in Vietnam, selling feed for the white fish pangasius and other species such as snakehead.