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From Producers Sales Organisations to Global Marketing Conglomerates; How the Icelandic Seafood Exporting Companies Changed

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Klemensson, Olafur and Knutsson, Ogmundur

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For decades, three producers-organisations, Icelandic Freezing Plants, Iceland Seafood and Union of Fish Producers (SIF) took care of export and marketing activities of ground fish products from Iceland. These organisations had a virtual monopoly through export licences in exporting frozen and salted seafood product till late 1980´ and early 1990´....

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and scope1 (G. Johnson, K. Scoles, R. Whittington, 2005) in consolidation and streamlining the
Structural changes in the Icelandic fisheries sector - a value chain analysis

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Knútsson, Ögmundur, Klemensson, Ólafur, and Gestsson, Helgi

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This pilot study maps the structural changes in the Icelandic fisheries sector from 1990 to present, from the general to the specific. The background is the radical and substantial changes in the structure of harvesting, production and processing; in the export activities and marketing in Icelandic fisheries. The main characteristics...

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vessels w ith 96% of quota/catch Figure 1. Changes in the Icelandic fleet from 1992 to 2007 [4]. 4