The Norwegian investment company Hawk Infinity invests in Regla and becomes the main owner of the company. Regla was founded in 2008 by the couple Kjartani Ólafsson and Anna Guðmundsdóttir. Over the past year, Regla has grown steadily and has a strong position in the field of accounting software solutions for small and medium-sized companies. 25 employees work at Regla and Regla has [...]
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Myntkaupur has been doing well in recent years and the business is growing. There are 14,000 registered customers and around 200 companies. The company prides itself on offering the fastest way for Icelanders to convert króna into electronic coins. Recently, there have been changes in the group of shareholders. Arev assists parties with the changes
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Below you can see how the indexed return on the City of Reykjavík and Orkuveituna has been moving this autumn. The graph shows the demand in September (x) and November (o) for individual bonds of RVÍK and OR. The blue and yellow lines are found using the Nelson–Siegel–Svenson method, which uses mathematical methods to draw a refined line
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Below are two pictures that show the risk in selected rivers. Below are two pictures that show invasiveness in all the fishing lakes that appear in the monitoring report of the Norwegian Maritime Administration: Here is a more detailed description of the simulation model. This post was updated on 2024/12/04
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Employees have written an article in Vísbendingu about the development of concentration of hunting permits in Vísbendingu and there is a link to the article here. It is surprising that consolidation has decreased in recent years and despite SVN's purchase of Vísi and Ísfélag's purchase of Ramma. The reason is the decreasing resources for fur hunting. This can be seen in the following figure which shows that the concentration in cod value tonnes
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Arev employees wrote an article in Vísbendingu about consolidation in the fishing industry. Link to the article is here. The article includes a table showing the MHHI, HHI, CR3 and CR8 for the fishing year 23/24 based on ownership at the end of 2023: Species MHHI value HHI value CR3% CR8% Thorski value (%) 706 595 27.6 61.6 Perch/golden perch 1,508 1,239 42.7 74.9 Cod
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Árni Mathiesen and Særós Óskarsdóttir have written an article in Viðskiptablaðir about the importance of better merger announcements. It states, among other things, that by conducting a detailed market study and evaluating the main merger factors before a merger notification is sent to the Competition Authority, the speed of proceedings can be increased significantly. The article can be accessed here.
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The system calculates the allocated catch limit. Shows the percentage of selected shipping companies of the total catch target at any given time and depending on the selection, the effect of the purchase/merger of possible companies. You can choose basic assumptions based either on the current legal environment or assumptions in the draft bill on fisheries, Example of a calculation that shows the market share of the largest fisheries based on the catch limit after allocation of the catch limit
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Arev employees wrote an article in Vísbendingu about the distribution of salmon this year after a release event in Kvígindisdal last summer. It turned out that salmon spread west and east from Patreksfjörður. In the picture you can see which salmon were distributed in the fishing spots (years), but the picture shows 457 salmon caught and their distribution is obtained from http://www.strokulax.is. About 22%
Nature spread salmon hundreds of kilometers Read More »
Morgunblaðið published an article about Arev's criticism of the risk assessment of genetic mixing. The article can be read here.
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