There’s talk of building market power, which implies in this instance, mergers and acquisitions the like of which have never before been seen in this industry.
Textbooks of economics students teach a company should have control of at least one-quarter of production to gain market power. The new Marine Harvest and a possible merged company of Fjord Seafood and Cermaq would in total account for just one-quarter of Norwegian production. On a global basis, Marine Harvest has on its own around 22 percent of salmon production.
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