Royal Greenland

{{Infobox company

| name = Royal Greenland

| logo = Royal Greenland.svg

| logo_size = 250px

| type = Aktieselskab, Food cooperative

| foundation = {{Start date|1990}}

| location_city = Nuuk

| location_country = Greenland

| subsid =

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| key_people =

Niels Harald de Coninck-Smith (Chairman)
Mikael Thinghuus (CEO)

| area_served = Worldwide

| industry = Seafood
Fishing

| products = Seafood
Caviar
Commercial fishing
Fish processing
Convenience
Smoked and Marinated fish
Dried fish

| revenue = {{increase}} DKK 7,105 million (2016)

| operating_income = {{increase}} DKK 335 million (2016)

| net_income = {{increase}} DKK 173 million (2016)

| assets = {{increase}} DKK 1,587 million (2016)

| equity = {{increase}} DKK 1,414 million (2016)

| members =

| num_employees = 2,769 (2016)

| homepage = [http://www.royalgreenland.com royalgreenland.com]

| footnotes = (2012{{Cite web |url=http://innovisio.ipapercms.dk/RoyalGreenland/Div/Annualreport1112/ |title=Royal Greenland |access-date=2013-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130219071501/http://innovisio.ipapercms.dk/RoyalGreenland/Div/Annualreport1112/ |archive-date=2013-02-19 |url-status=dead }})

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Royal Greenland A/S is a fishing company in Greenland, spun off from Kalaallit Niuerfiat in 1990 but still wholly owned by the Government of Greenland. The company operates in a number of towns and settlements in Greenland, with 20 fish processing plants and ship bases of local subsidiary units.Royal Greenland. "[http://www.royalgreenland.com/en/Fishery-and-processing/Production-facilities/Greenland.aspx Our Greenlandic production facilities]". Royalgreenlan.dcom, Accessed 27 Aug 2010. Some of the processing plants were closed between 2007 and 2009.Sermitsiaq. "[http://sermitsiaq.gl/indland/article71569.ece?lang=EN Royal Greenland closes fish purchasing facilities]". 19 Jan 2009. Accessed 27 Aug 2010. Royal Greenland had an annual net profit of DKK 335 million before tax in 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.royalgreenland.co.uk/royal-greenland/about-royal-greenland/facts-figures/|title=Facts & Figures|date=6 February 2017|website=Royalgreenland.co.uk|access-date=19 November 2018}}

History

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The Royal Greenland Trading Department was founded in 1774 as a Dano-Norwegian state enterprise charged with administering the Danish settlements and trade in Greenland. The company's monopoly was finally ended in 1950 and the Home Rule Government, introduced in 1979, gained control in 1986,MIPI. "[http://mipi.nanoq.gl/sitecore/content/Websites/nanoq/Emner/Om%20Groenland/Trafikforhold/Trafikstruktur_2006/Links/KNI.aspx Pilersuisoq KNI A/S] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721212938/http://mipi.nanoq.gl/sitecore/content/Websites/nanoq/Emner/Om%20Groenland/Trafikforhold/Trafikstruktur_2006/Links/KNI.aspx |date=2015-07-21 }}". Mipi.nanoq.gl, Accessed 2 May 2012. {{in lang|da}}Dahl, Jens. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WIciyhVD0soC&pg=PA61 Saqqaq: An Inuit Hunting Community in the Modern World].

Univ. of Toronto Press, 2000. first renaming it "Kalaallit Niuerfiat"Culture Greenland. "[http://www.kultur.gl/gnbd_kgh_uk.htm Preliminary Studies in KGH's Photo-Archive] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306235842/http://www.kultur.gl/gnbd_kgh_uk.htm |date=2012-03-06 }}". Accessed 2 May 2012. and then, in 1992, "KNI".KNI. "[http://www.kni.gl/sub.asp?lang=da§ion=info&contentID=64 Kort historie om KNI] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423145202/http://www.kni.gl/sub.asp?lang=da§ion=info&contentID=64 |date=2012-04-23 }} [A Short History of KNI]". Accessed 28 Apr 2012. {{in lang|da}} The company's fishing operations were spun off as Royal Greenland A/S in 1990.Royal Greenland. "[http://www.royalgreenland.com/uk/Our-company/Our-history.aspx Our History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200436/http://www.royalgreenland.com/uk/Our-company/Our-history.aspx |date=2016-03-03 }}". Royalgreenland.com, Accessed 27 August 2010.