NOWACO

Name

NOWACO

Legal name

Nowaco A/S

Website

https://nowaco.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

NAICS

Fish and Seafood Merchant Wholesalers (42446), Meat and Meat Product Merchant Wholesalers (42447)

SIC

Food And Kindred Products (2000), Prepared Fresh Or Frozen Fish & Seafoods (2092)

akta.pro primary industry

Frozen Meat, Poultry & Seafood Wholesale (AFAIAHAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Frozen Prepared Meals & Entrées Wholesale (AFAIAHAG)

Keywords

• Frozen food trading
• Global food sourcing
• Meat seafood distribution
• Cold chain logistics
• Frozen vegetable supply

Headquarters

HQ city

Wilmington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices22 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Frozen Food Trading: NOWACO generates revenue through trading frozen foods including beef, lamb, pork, poultry, fish, seafood, and vegetables globally. They sell and source products according to customer specifications, handling 12,000 containers yearly.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

NOWACO is a professional food merchant dedicated to providing and selling frozen food on a global scale. The company sources and trades frozen meats (beef, lamb, pork, poultry), fish and seafood, and vegetables through a network of 23 global offices, developing customized products to precise cut, weight, size, and specification requirements for business customers. An in-house group freight operation handles 12,000 containers yearly, ensuring reliable delivery to customers in food service, HoReCa, food processing, and specialty fish industries.

Product overview

NOWACO is a professional food merchant providing frozen food on a global scale. The company operates as a single unified product/service portfolio organized around five core product categories (Beef & Lamb, Fish & Seafood, Pork, Poultry, Vegetables) complemented by three key services (Global Sales, Global Sourcing, Group Freight). This integrated approach combines product trading expertise with logistics capabilities, enabling the company to source from multiple global regions and deliver to customers worldwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• NOWACO Blue Boxes: Well-known brand of beef and lamb products at local markets.

Quantifiable outcome

• 12,000 containers shipped yearly

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Tyson Foods, Inc. U.S. protein major with growing international trading operations across beef, pork, poultry and prepared foods; competitive overlap in cross-border protein trading and overlapping foodservice end-markets.
• Thai Union Group PCL: Global frozen seafood giant (Chicken of the Sea, John West, King Oscar); comparable seafood trading and processing model and overlapping key foodservice customers.
• Nomad Foods Limited: Europe's largest frozen-food company (Birds Eye, Findus, Iglo) and one of NOWACO's potential end-customers/comps; comparable across frozen protein, vegetables and seafood categories though now primarily brand-focused.
• Bidvest Food: South African foodservice distributor with international protein-sourcing operations; closest large-scale B2B frozen-protein distribution comp to NOWACO's global trading + logistics model.
• Marfrig Global Foods S.A. Brazil-based global beef and protein company; closely comparable as a beef-anchored Latin American exporter with global distribution — the type of originator NOWACO sources from.
• JBS S.A. Global protein major across beef, pork, poultry and increasingly seafood; not a pure trader but increasingly trades internationally and competes with NOWACO on cross-border protein flows.

Direct peers

• Royal Greenland A/S: Greenland/Denmark-headquartered vertically integrated frozen seafood company; overlaps directly with NOWACO's fish & seafood category and shares the Danish frozen-protein heritage and customer profile.
• Greenland Seafood A/S: Danish-based global frozen seafood trader and processor with similar customer base (foodservice, processors, retailers) and similar headquarter geography; comparable B2B frozen-protein merchant model.
• FRoSTA AG: German frozen-food company trading across fish, vegetables, and meat; comparable horizontal product set and B2B/foodservice orientation, though more brand-led in retail.

Emerging players

• Clearwater Seafoods: Canadian frozen seafood harvester and trader with global distribution; comparable in seafood vertical (ground fish, shellfish) and end-market overlap with NOWACO's fish & seafood business.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nowaco-as

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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