{"id":4750,"date":"2020-10-16T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2020\/10\/16\/new-capital-and-new-name-for-arnarlax\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:49:53","slug":"new-capital-and-new-name-for-arnarlax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/aquaculture\/new-capital-and-new-name-for-arnarlax\/","title":{"rendered":"New capital and new name for Arnarlax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The capital increase is backed by Icelandic pension fund Gildi and Stefnir Asset Management together with the successful investor and entrepreneur at Alden as cornerstones investors.<\/p>\n<p>The offering is equivalent of \u20ac40 million for issuing of approximately 15% new shares, intended to support overall investments in all parts of the company\u2019s value chain over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>The holding company behind Arnarlax becoming Icelandic Salmon AS represent a greater focus on further developing sales and branding strategies, according to a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly believe there is a lot of value to catch in referring to our Icelandic origin in the company name. Such strategy is to be built in line with our vision; sustainable salmon from the Westfjords,\u201d an Arnarlax spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The company has also achieved Aquaculture Stewardship Certification (ASC) for its Tjaldanes site in Arnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cASC is one of the most stringent environmental certifications in world of aquaculture and fits nicely with our key value. Sustainability in everything we do,\u201d Arnarlax\u2019s representative commented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icelandic salmon producer Arnarlax has seen a capital increase and its OSE Merkur listing, along with gaining ASC certification and a new name, as the last few weeks have been eventful ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquaculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}