The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) is the world’s leading producer of non-alcoholic beverages. The recipe for Coca-Cola was created in 1886 by pharmacist John S. Pemberton in Atlanta, USA, and in Norway, Coca-Cola was introduced to the market in 1926. Coca-Cola Company Norway owns and manages the brands while Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Norway AS (CCEPN) is responsible for the production, sales, and distribution of Coca-Cola in Norway. From the production facility in Lørenskog, just outside Oslo, Coca-Cola®, Coca-Cola without sugar, Coca-Cola light®, Fanta®, Sprite®, Sprite zero®, Urge, bonaqua®, fuzetea®, Honest®, Powerade®, Minute Maid®, Kuli®, COSTA®, and CHAQWA® are marketed and distributed. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Norway has over 550 employees in Norway, and Coca-Cola Company Norway has around 10 employees.
AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. The company strives to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience and eye care, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. In Norway, AbbVie employs around 55 people.
For more than a century, MSD, a leading global biopharmaceutical company, has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. MSD is a trade name of Merck & Co., Inc., with headquarters in Kenilworth, NJ, USA. MSD was established in Norway in 1970, and the office in Oslo holds 80 employees. MSD continues to be at the forefront of research to advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and communities around the world – including cancer, emerging animal diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, and infectious diseases including HIV and Ebola.
Cisco is a global technology company and market leader in networking, data center, security, and collaboration solutions. At Lysaker, Cisco has around 500 employees working within R&D, marketing, sales, and supply chain management. Webex devices, a range of products including design, hardware, mechanics, software, cloud solutions, machine learning, and intelligence, are developed by Cisco and are an integral part of the company’s Webex meeting platform – the world’s most popular way to meet. Cisco has one of the largest in-house design teams in Norway and has won prestigious awards including iF Gold and Red Dot Best of the Best. There are many who want to work with technology – with Cisco you get to make it!
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge by empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. Headquarters are located in Redmond, WA, and the company has 144,000 employees in 170 countries. Founded in 1975, Microsoft opened its Norwegian office in 1990. Microsoft has more than 600 employees working at the Oslo headquarters in Microsoft Norway and in Microsoft Development Centers, and in Trondheim (NTNU) and Tromsø (UiT). In Norway, Microsoft works closely with about 1,750 partners. In November 2019, Microsoft opened data centers in Norway (Stavanger and Oslo), which demonstrated a significant and growing investment in European cloud computing.
Amgen is one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. Amgen is a values-based company deeply rooted in science and innovation that is transforming new ideas and discoveries into medicines for patients with serious illnesses. With a presence in approximately 100 countries worldwide, Amgen has reached millions of people in the fight against serious illnesses, focusing on six therapeutic areas: oncology/hematology, cardiovascular disease, inflammation, bone health, nephrology, and neuroscience. Amgen’s medicines typically address diseases for which the number of effective treatment options is limited, or they are medicines that provide a viable option to what is otherwise available. In Norway, there are 23 employees within sales, marketing, health economy, and medical activities. Amgen Norway is certified as a Great Place to Work where employee Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging are high on the agenda.
