Forretningsmessig tjenesteyting
FollowDownload sector report (PDF)42 companies ranked against comparable companies in four Morning company classes. Fiscal year 2022. Source: Brønnøysund Register Centre. Methodology
Ranking · 2022 · Morning class Medium
| # | Company | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aggreko Norway AS | 90 | – |
| 2 | Direct House Arendal AS | 74 | – |
| 3 | ISS Service Management AS | 62 | – |
| 4 | ISS Management AS | 54 | – |
| 5 | Haugesund Skips og Offshore Service AS | 49 | – |
| 6 | Noble Drilling Norge AS | 44 | – |
| 7 | Living Clean Renhold AS | 42 | – |
| 8 | Imove AS | 30 | – |
| 9 | Travelnet Krs AS | 18 | – |
| 10 | Amploy AS | 8 | – |
The rank is the rank in the class. A class with fewer than ten companies is compared with the whole sector. Full ranking · Press mode
Biggest moves · Morning class Medium
Climbers and fallers need at least two fiscal years with a score. Coming when next year's figures are fetched.
Top lists in the sector · 2022 · Morning class Medium
The five largest companies account for 76% of the sector's revenue. Combined profit before tax for the 10 ranked companies: 396 MNOK.
Size
The largest by revenue and employees, and who earns the most per employee.
Highest revenue
- ISS Service Management AS 450 MNOK
- Haugesund Skips og Offshore Service AS 408 MNOK
- ISS Management AS 175 MNOK
- Aggreko Norway AS 90 MNOK
- Noble Drilling Norge AS 87 MNOK
Operating revenue.
Most employees
- ISS Service Management AS 764
- Noble Drilling Norge AS 579
- Living Clean Renhold AS 359
- Haugesund Skips og Offshore Service AS 213
- Amploy AS 149
Employees according to the Central Coordinating Register.
Highest revenue per employee
- Aggreko Norway AS 3.8 MNOK
- Travelnet Krs AS 2.6 MNOK
- ISS Management AS 2.1 MNOK
- Direct House Arendal AS 2.0 MNOK
- Haugesund Skips og Offshore Service AS 1.9 MNOK
Only companies with at least 5 employees.
Profit and balance
Who earns the most, who loses the most, and who has the strongest balance sheet.
Highest operating margin
- Aggreko Norway AS 15.3%
- Living Clean Renhold AS 7.2%
- Direct House Arendal AS 6.1%
- Haugesund Skips og Offshore Service AS 4.9%
- Noble Drilling Norge AS 3.8%
Operating result divided by operating revenue.
Largest profit
- ISS Management AS 367 MNOK
- Haugesund Skips og Offshore Service AS 19 MNOK
- Aggreko Norway AS 15 MNOK
- Noble Drilling Norge AS 11 MNOK
- Direct House Arendal AS 4 MNOK
Profit before tax.
Largest loss
- Imove AS −23 MNOK
- Amploy AS −1 MNOK
- Travelnet Krs AS −1 MNOK
Profit before tax, the largest negative.
Most solid
- ISS Management AS 86.1%
- Aggreko Norway AS 79.2%
- ISS Service Management AS 32.3%
- Direct House Arendal AS 26.0%
- Imove AS 20.7%
Equity ratio: equity divided by total assets.
Growth and movement
Who grows and falls the most in revenue, and who has climbed or fallen the most on the index since the year before.
Fastest growth
No company meets the requirement this year.
Revenue growth from the year before, only from at least NOK 10 million in revenue.
Largest revenue decline
No company meets the requirement this year.
Revenue decline from the year before, only from at least NOK 10 million in revenue.
Biggest climbers
Requires an index for two financial years.
Change in index points from the year before.
Biggest fallers
Requires an index for two financial years.
Change in index points from the year before.
The lists cover ranked companies in the class: operating companies with at least NOK 1m in revenue, without holding companies and excluded ones. Size lists (revenue, profit, employees) count each group once. Source: Brønnøysund Register Centre. Amounts in other currencies are converted at Norges Bank's rates.
Positions in the sector · 2022 · Morning class Medium
Each company is placed by profitability and solidity, measured as a place from 0 to 100 against the others in the same sector and Morning company class. The bubble shows revenue. Hover over or tap a bubble for the figures, filter by profile or search for a company.
Bubble size shows relative revenue, not exact figures.
Lion · LeaderHigh profitability, high solidity
Cheetah · SprinterHigh profitability, lower solidity
Elephant · StewardLower profitability, high solidity
Beaver · BuilderLower profitability, lower solidity
Show the positions as a list
| Company | Profile | Profitability | Solidity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Living Clean Renhold AS | Cheetah | 94 | 0 |
| Aggreko Norway AS | Lion | 83 | 86 |
| Direct House Arendal AS | Lion | 78 | 58 |
| Haugesund Skips og Offshore Service AS | Cheetah | 78 | 17 |
| ISS Management AS | Lion | 50 | 100 |
| Noble Drilling Norge AS | Cheetah | 50 | 31 |
| ISS Service Management AS | Elephant | 33 | 72 |
| Amploy AS | Beaver | 17 | 0 |
| Travelnet Krs AS | Beaver | 11 | 0 |
| Imove AS | Beaver | 6 | 44 |
Summary · fiscal year 2022 · Morning class Medium
The sector's median operating margin is 2.0%. 4 of 11 companies have negative equity. The median equity ratio is 19.8%.
All figures are for fiscal year 2022. Ranked: 10 operating companies. Holding companies, excluded companies and companies without enough data are shown but not ranked. How to read the index
- Growth is not included in the index: it needs the previous year's accounts.
Climbers and fallers · Morning class Medium
Climbers need at least two fiscal years. They appear once next year's accounts are fetched or history is imported.
Awards · 2022 · Morning class Medium
Needs attention · 2022 · Morning class Medium
7 companies show at least one warning sign. Showing the 7 most important.
- criticalAmploy ASNegative equity · Current ratio below 1 (0.58) · Loss before tax
- criticalLiving Clean Renhold ASNegative equity · Current ratio below 1 (0.60)
- criticalTravelnet Krs ASNegative equity · Loss before tax
- criticalDreamwork Talents ASNegative equity · Current ratio below 1 (0.92)
- watchHaugesund Skips og Offshore Service ASVery low equity ratio (6.6%)
- watchISS Management ASCurrent ratio below 1 (0.50)
- watchImove ASLoss before tax
Sector map · 2022 · Morning class Medium
Profitability against solidity for the ranked companies. Size shows revenue. Coral triangle: negative equity. Click to open the company. Outliers are placed on the edge.
Show the map's figures as a table
| Company | Operating margin | Equity ratio | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aggreko Norway AS | 15.3% | 79.2% | 90 MNOK |
| Direct House Arendal AS | 6.1% | 26.0% | 66 MNOK |
| ISS Service Management AS | 0.2% | 32.3% | 450 MNOK |
| ISS Management AS | 0.2% | 86.1% | 175 MNOK |
| Haugesund Skips og Offshore Service AS | 4.9% | 6.6% | 408 MNOK |
| Noble Drilling Norge AS | 3.8% | 18.8% | 87 MNOK |
| Living Clean Renhold AS | 7.2% | −5.9% | 67 MNOK |
| Imove AS | −19.8% | 20.7% | 84 MNOK |
| Travelnet Krs AS | −1.6% | −14.3% | 57 MNOK |
| Amploy AS | −2.3% | −14.7% | 58 MNOK |
Holding and investment companies · 2022
3 companies in the sector are holding or investment companies. They are kept out of the ranking above, since revenue, margins and growth say little about a company that lives from ownership. They are ranked on their own here: 2 have at least 10 MNOK in assets and are listed.
| Rank | Company | Score | Equity ratio | Return on assets | Current ratio | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anleggsgartner SB Holding AS | 60 | 94.5% | 1.0% | 10.10 | 36 MNOK |
| 2 | Tax Invest AS | 40 | 71.1% | 1.7% | 0.31 | 10 MNOK |
Score 0–100 against the other holding companies in the sector: equity ratio 40 %, return on assets 40 % and current ratio 20 %. Methodology
In our articles
- Finance earns 58.3% on operations; the typical Norwegian industry makes 5.7%No. 16 of 22 on median operating margin
Scenario analysis: the sector's weakest year
The sector's weakest year was 2026, with a median operating margin of −3.2%.
Based on the 9 fiscal years we have. The analysis grows as more years are fetched or imported.
| Fiscal year | Median operating margin | Median equity ratio |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | – | – |
| 2019 | – | – |
| 2020 | – | – |
| 2021 | 0.4% | −57.3% |
| 2022 | 4.6% | 18.9% |
| 2023 | 4.1% | 24.5% |
| 2024 | 3.8% | 24.2% |
| 2025 | 4.3% | 24.4% |
| 2026 · weakest year | −3.2% | 33.1% |
In 2026, 3 ranked companies did better than the sector, 0 about the same and 3 weaker.
Held up best in 2026
- 1Wings Travel Management ASequity ratio 33.4%21.7%
- 2Releasy ASequity ratio 3.0%6.1%
- 3Specsavers Norway ASequity ratio 32.7%1.8%
Better than the sector: operating margin at or above the sector median and no loss or negative equity. Weaker: operating margin below the median and a loss or negative equity. Otherwise about the same as the sector. Methodology
Drivers in the sector
Interest rates, prices and exchange rates that shape the sector's year, next to the sector's median operating margin. The drivers are context and are not part of the index.
Consumer price index (indeks (2025 = 100))
Consumer price index rose 3.0% in 2025; the sector's median operating margin rose 0.4 percentage points.
| Measure | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer price index, annual average | 84.3 | 89.2 | 94.1 | 97.0 | 100.0 | 102.9 (so far) |
| Change from the year before | +3.5% | +5.8% | +5.5% | +3.2% | +3.0% | +2.9% |
| Sector's median operating margin | 0.4% | 4.6% | 4.1% | 3.8% | 4.3% | −3.2% |
Source: SSB (14710, CC BY 4.0). Source · fetched 3 November 2026
Policy rate (prosent)
Policy rate fell 0.20 percentage points in 2025; the sector's median operating margin rose 0.4 percentage points.
| Measure | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Policy rate, annual average | 0.08 | 1.32 | 3.54 | 4.50 | 4.30 | 4.17 (so far) |
| Change from the year before | −0.28 percentage points | +1.24 percentage points | +2.22 percentage points | +0.96 percentage points | −0.20 percentage points | −0.12 percentage points |
| Sector's median operating margin | 0.4% | 4.6% | 4.1% | 3.8% | 4.3% | −3.2% |
Source: Norges Bank (IR, NLOD 2.0). Source · fetched 3 November 2026
When policy rate fell in 2025, 1,072 of 2,135 ranked companies kept their operating margin at or above the year before. Among the largest: Ving Norge AS (2.1% → 2.9%), Tui Norge AS (−0.9% → 0.4%), Nes Advantage AS (1.3% → 1.7%), Norwegian Crew Services AS (0.9% → 1.6%), Securitas AS (4.0% → 5.0%).
We show the drivers and the margin side by side and claim no cause. Sensitivity per company is not computed until we have at least 10 years of accounts per company: with three years such figures are false precision.
The sector in Norway (SSB)
The whole industry as Statistics Norway counts it: every enterprise, not only the limited companies we rank. Use these figures as background for the ranking above.
Enterprises, employment and turnover · 2024
- Enterprises
- 24,037
- +0.8% from 2023
- Persons employed
- 135,093
- −2.5% from 2023
- Turnover
- NOK 263.7 bn
- +6.7% from 2023
- Gross operating margin
- 15.3%
- Gross operating surplus divided by turnover
All enterprises, sole proprietorships included.
Bankruptcies in the industry
194 enterprise bankruptcies in the last four quarters (2025K4–2026K3). Change +3.2% against the four quarters before (188). That is about 8.1 per 1,000 enterprises.
Foreign-controlled enterprises · 2024
- Share of enterprises
- 2.6%
- Share of persons employed
- 36.2%
- Share of turnover
- 36.9%
SSB publishes this for groups of industries only. The figures are for the group “Forretningsmessig tjenesteyting”.
Turnover index · Forretningsmessig tjenesteyting
145.4 index, 2021 = 100, seasonally adjusted · 2026M08
+2.3% against 2025M08.
Monthly, 2023M08 to 2026M08.
Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), table 12910, table 10790, table 08085, table 13863. CC BY 4.0. Our industry codes (SN2025) are linked to SSB’s (SN2007) with SSB’s correspondence table in Klass.
Latest bankruptcies and liquidations
- Arc Bergen AS 933776182 Voluntary liquidation · 3 November 2026 · 1 MNOK (2025)
- Hosj AS 915363849 Voluntary liquidation · 3 November 2026 · 0 MNOK (2025)
- Van TO GO AS 935765234 Voluntary liquidation · 3 November 2026 · 0 MNOK (2025)
- AS NORSK REISELIV 952498843 Voluntary liquidation · 2 November 2026
- Alvin Maskin og Utleie AS 938482845 Voluntary liquidation · 31 October 2026
- Atlas Technology Solutions Norway AS 917555818 Forced dissolution · 31 October 2026 · 15 MNOK (2025)
- Birgits Florida AS 897801302 Voluntary liquidation · 31 October 2026 · 1 MNOK (2025)
- Din Rekrutterer AS 914593972 Voluntary liquidation · 31 October 2026
Industry codes (NACE)
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| 77* | Hele hovedgruppe 77 |
| 77.110 | Utleie og leasing av biler og andre lette motorvogner |
| 77.120 | Utleie og leasing av lastebiler |
| 77.210 | Utleie og leasing av sports- og fritidsutstyr |
| 77.220 | Utleie og leasing av andre husholdningsvarer og varer til personlig bruk |
| 77.310 | Utleie og leasing av landbruksmaskiner og -utstyr |
| 77.320 | Utleie og leasing av bygge- og anleggsmaskiner og -utstyr |
| 77.330 | Utleie og leasing av kontor- og datamaskiner |
| 77.340 | Utleie og leasing av sjøtransportmateriell |
| 77.350 | Utleie og leasing av lufttransportmateriell |
| 77.390 | Utleie og leasing av andre maskiner og annet utstyr og materiell ikke nevnt annet sted |
| 77.400 | Leasing av immateriell eiendom og lignende produkter, unntatt opphavsrettsbeskyttede verker |
| 77.510 | Formidlingstjenester tilknyttet utleie og leasing av biler, campingbiler og tilhengere |
| 77.520 | Formidlingstjenester tilknyttet utleie og leasing av andre materielle varer og immateriell eiendom og lignende produkter |
| 78* | Hele hovedgruppe 78 |
| 78.100 | Rekruttering og formidling av arbeidskraft |
| 78.200 | Utleie av arbeidskraft og andre personaladministrative tjenester |
| 79* | Hele hovedgruppe 79 |
| 79.110 | Reisebyråvirksomhet |
| 79.121 | Aktiviteter utført av utflukts- og eventarrangører |
| 79.122 | Reisearrangørvirksomhet ellers |
| 79.901 | Aktiviteter utført av turistkontorer og destinasjonsselskaper |
| 79.902 | Guide- og reiseledervirksomhet |
| 80* | Hele hovedgruppe 80 |
| 80.010 | Etterforskningstjenester og private vakttjenester |
| 80.090 | Vakttjenester ikke nevnt annet sted |
| 81* | Hele hovedgruppe 81 |
| 81.100 | Kombinerte tjenester tilknyttet eiendomsdrift |
| 81.210 | Rengjøring av bygninger |
| 81.220 | Utvendig rengjøring av bygninger og industriell rengjøring |
| 81.230 | Annen rengjøringsvirksomhet og snømåking |
| 81.300 | Beplantning av hager og parkanlegg |
| 82* | Hele hovedgruppe 82 |
| 82.100 | Kontortjenester |
| 82.200 | Telefonvakttjenester og telefonsalg |
| 82.300 | Kongress-, messe- og utstillingsvirksomhet |
| 82.400 | Formidlingstjenester tilknyttet forretningsmessig tjenesteyting ikke nevnt annet sted |
| 82.910 | Inkasso- og kredittopplysningsvirksomhet |
| 82.920 | Pakkevirksomhet |
| 82.990 | Annen forretningsmessig tjenesteyting ikke nevnt annet sted |