Austevoll was founded as Austevoll Havfiske AS in 1981 by the Møgster family. It is a major seafood company with operations in the North Atlantic and South Pacific and facilities and sales worldwide. As the majority owner of Lerøy Seafood Group ASA, Austevoll covers the entire Atlantic salmon value chain. It has prominent operations in pelagic and whitefish fishery, fishmeal, and oil production. Its subsidiaries include Austral Group S.A.A., Foodcorp Chile S.A., Br.
Atea was originally founded as Merkantildata in 1968. In its current form, the company was formed through a merger of large Nordic IT infrastructure providers and the subsequent acquisition of 50 IT companies between 2006 and 2015. Atea is a key hardware and software reseller and service provider in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The company is a market leader in regional IT and is currently the third-largest such company in Europe. Atea collaborates with major global IT companies such as Microsoft, Apple, and Cisco.