(Bergen, 22 December 2025) Mowi ASA enters into a strategic and industrial
partnership agreement with Skretting/Nutreco where Mowi produces feed based on
Skretting's feed formulation making Mowi an even better salmon farming company.
Key highlights:
* Strategic partnership to deliver more than NOK 650 million (EUR 55 million)
in annualised net cost savings through improvements in feed formulation and
recipes, procurement and logistics.
* Mowi Feed with its two state-of-the-art factories to be retained as-is
providing an expected EBITDA contribution in 2026E of NOK 825 million (EUR
70 million), and to capitalise on further tightening of the feed market in
the coming years.
* Total EBITDA contribution of feed partnership with Skretting and retained
Mowi Feed business unit of more than NOK 1,475 million (EUR 125 million).
* Total earnings of NOK 1,475 million (EUR 125 million) equivalent to an EBIT
per kg (GWT) of NOK 2.1 (EUR 0.18) for Mowi Group, and NOK 2.6/kg (EUR
0.22) for Mowi Norway. This corresponds to NOK 1.7 in earnings per share
(EUR 0.14).
* Skretting, the aquaculture feed business line of Nutreco, is a leading
global aquafeed manufacturer and supplier with advanced nutritional
expertise and R&D capabilities. Partnership agreement to build upon Mowi and
Skretting's existing long-term commercial relationship, and Skretting to
make available its proprietary know-how, R&D capacity, data and procurement
capabilities.
With reference to the stock exchange release on 4 March 2025 when Mowi announced
a strategic review of its Feed Division. The strategic review has now been
concluded, and Mowi is pleased to announce that we have entered into a strategic
and industrial partnership agreement with Skretting/Nutreco. Mowi Feed will
continue to produce feed, and feed production will now be based on Skretting's
feed formulation.
"Mowi and Skretting are a great match for each other, and the partnership with
Skretting is our preferred outcome from the strategic review process. I am
confident that teaming up with them will make Mowi into an even better salmon
farming company. With this agreement, Mowi Farming secures the best performing
feed in the coming years at the lowest cost in the industry. The partnership
will deliver improved feed formulation and recipes for our European salmon
farming operations which will drive significant cost improvements whilst
ensuring top quality feed performance in the years to come", said Ivan Vindheim,
Mowi CEO.
Making Mowi into an even better salmon farming company
Skretting has been one of Mowi's feed suppliers for decades, known for
delivering high quality salmon feed at a competitive cost. As feed formulation
has become increasingly complex in recent years, nutritional know-how and an R&D
focus within feed have become even more important. Teaming up with a partner
that is at the forefront of driving feed innovations and offers these
specialised competencies has been of key strategic importance to Mowi in the
review process, and Mowi will pay a small annual consideration for this.
"We know the Skretting team extremely well and have enjoyed an excellent working
relationship with them for decades. Now we are taking this cooperation to
another level and formalising how we can drive innovations and cost
improvements. This partnership model presents a low-risk solution for Mowi while
ensuring cost savings from day one on improved feed formulation and optimised
procurement and logistics", Vindheim says.
A key advantage of keeping Mowi Feed as-is with our excellent organisation and
the two state-of-the-art feed factories in Norway and Scotland, is that Mowi
will retain the embedded profit in the feed value chain. There is reason to
believe that the feed market will continue to tighten in the coming years which
will make this part of the value chain even more profitable.
"The partnership model whereby Mowi Feed is retained gives us the best of both
worlds; teaming up with Skretting with all the benefits that it entails and at
the same time retaining Mowi Feed with an improved market outlook make this the
most compelling solution", Vindheim says.
For further information, please contact:
Kristian Ellingsen, CFO, Mowi, +47 905 14 275
Kim Galtung Døsvig, IR Officer & Head of Treasury, Mowi, +47 908 76?339
Ola Helge Hjetland, Group Communications Director, Mowi, +47 970 67 932
About Mowi ASA
Mowi is one of the world's leading seafood companies and the largest producer of
farm-raised Atlantic salmon in the world, with an estimated 2026 harvest of
605,000 tonnes from seven farming countries including Norway, Scotland, Ireland,
Faroes, Iceland, Chile and Canada.
Mowi is a fully integrated global seafood company, bringing salmon and other
seafood of supreme quality to consumers around the world, partly under its own
MOWI brand. Mowi is ranked as the most sustainable listed animal protein
producer in the world by Coller FAIRR.
With headquarters in Bergen, Norway, Mowi employs 12 300 people in 26 countries
worldwide, and is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Turnover was EUR 5.6
billion in 2024.
For more information, please visit www.mowi.com (http://www.mowi.com).
The information included in this announcement is defined as inside information
pursuant to article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation and is publicly disclosed
in accordance with article 17 of the Market Abuse Regulation and section 5-12 of
the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
This stock exchange announcement was published by Kim Galtung Døsvig, Investor
Relations Officer in Mowi ASA, on 22 December 2025 at 07:00 CET.