EDB Business Partner is a vendor of IT services in the Nordic region. Co. is organized into three business areas: Solutions; Application Services and IT Operations. The Solutions business area offers a range of software and consulting services for the Nordic banking and finance sector. The Application Services business area delivers a range of consulting services, through Guide Konsult in Sweden and Avenir in Norway. The IT Operations business area comprises network services, infrastructure and applications operations, security services, user support, as well as electronic business support services such as invoice management, payment services, messaging and printing.

FLSmidth & Co. is a supplier of equipment and services to the global cement and minerals industries with a local presence in 50 countries including project and technology centers in Denmark, India, USA and Germany. Co. supplies everything from single machinery to complete cement plants and minerals processing solutions including services before, during and after the construction. Co.'s in-house resources are primarily engineers who develop, plan, design, install and service equipment, with most of the manufacturing being outsourced to subcontractors.

GN Store Nord is an electronics communication products group based in Denmark. Co. is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of products for personal communication. Co.'s product offering includes hearing instruments, corded and wireless headsets, and audiologic diagnostics equipment used to test people's hearing and sense of balance. In addition, Co. offers products and accessories such as speakers, amplifiers, headset telephones, and adapters, as well as software and equipment for fitting hearing instruments. Co.'s operations are organized along two business divisions: GN Netcom (headsets) and GN ReSound (advanced hearing instruments).

Hexagon is engaged in the provision of integrated design, measurement and visualization technologies. Co. has two segments: measurement technologies, which consist of Geosystems that captures, processes and stores position-related information, Metrology, which provides manufacturing evaluation, process qualification and final parts inspection, and Technology, which provides engineering software as well as geospatially powered solutions; and Other Operations, which focuses on the transportation industry in the car and heavy vehicle segments. The Other Operations conducts its business in the Nordic region.

Hexagon Composites is divided into three business segments. Co.'s Hexagon Ragasco segment manufactures low-pressue composite cylinders, such as cylinders for propane gas; and Co.'s Hexagon Lincoln/Hexagon Raufoss segment develops and supplies complete storage and transport systems for natural gas and hydrogen to the bus and automotive industry and for bulk transport of compressed gas. The Group's activities are divided into the following regions: Europe, North America, South-East Asia, Middle East and South America.

Marine Harvest is a seafood company engaged in the production of farmed salmon. Co. offers fresh and processed salmon and other processed seafood to customers in 70 countries worldwide. Co. focuses on three principal types of production activities: salmon feed production in Norway, fish farming and primary processing of fish in Norway, Scotland, Canada, Chile, Ireland, and the Faroe Islands, and secondary processing of seafood in Norway, Chile, Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, and South Korea.

Nokian Tyres is a tyre manufacturer. Co. mainly sells its products in the aftermarket. Co. and its subsidiaries include the Vianor tyre retail chain, which provides wholesale and retail services in Co.'s primary markets. The core business units in Co. and its subsidiaries are Passenger Car Tyres, which develops, manufactures, and markets summer and winter tyres for passenger cars and delivery trucks as well as SUVs; Heavy Tyres, which focuses on special tyres; as well as Vianor, which provides tyres for all vehicles: passenger cars, vans, trucks, and heavy machinery. In addition to Nokian-branded tyres, the Vianor tyre retail chain sells other tyre brands and a variety of motoring products.

Norwegian Finans Holding ASA is a Norway-based bank. The Company focuses on e-commerce and self-service solutions, and offers deposit accounts and consumer loans, which are distributed through the Internet. It also provides a combined credit card and reward card for buying tickets with the airline Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA. The Company's ownership is divided between institutional and private investors in Norway and abroad. It operates through Bank Norwegian AS, a wholly owned subsidiary.

SpareBank 1 SMN is an independent, regional finance house. Through the SpareBank 1 Alliance and its own subsidiaries (the Bank), Co. has access to products in the fields of financing, savings and investment, insurance and money transfer services. At its Offices business area, the bank provides advice to retail customers, farm sector customers, pools/associations, one-person businesses and small and medium businesses. The Corporate business area focuses on financial counselling in investment and operations financing, domestic and foreign money transfers, fixed income and currency hedging, investment of surplus liquidity and insurance of individuals and buildings/operating equipment.

Sparebanken Ost (the Bank) is a Norway-based regional bank. The Bank is engaged in the provision of both banking and financial products and services to individuals and businesses. The Bank's primary market area is the lower part of Buskerud county and the Drammen region. Its product and service offering includes loans, cards, payment services, savings accounts, pension funds, life and non-life insurance, investment services and foreign exchange. As of December 31, 2011, the Bank had such subsidiaries, as Sparebanken Ost Boligkredit AS, a mortgage company; AS Financiering, a car financing company; Sparebanken Ost Eiendom AS, which was engaged in real estate development and operations, and Ost Prosjekt AS, a subsidiary supporting the Bank's activities. As of December 31, 2011, the Bank's largest shareholder was MP Pensjon (9.89%).