Who owns Native Hebridean?
Native Hebridean is owned by Bakkafrost (Faroe Islands, OSL: BAKKA), which has owned the brand since 2019.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Bakkafrost Integrated Annual Report 2025, P/F Bakkafrost, 27 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- P/F Bakkafrost reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇫🇴 Faroe Islands, Glyvrar
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Category
- Food › Meat, poultry & seafood › Fish & seafood
- Parent ticker
- OSL: BAKKA
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Native Hebridean
Native Hebridean Salmon is Bakkafrost's premium Scottish brand, built on a strain the company describes as descended from the wild salmon of the remote island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides and grown on in the Hebridean islands and along Scotland's west coast. The company describes its texture as robust and lean and its taste as distinctive, succulent and sea-fresh. It arrived with the acquisition of The Scottish Salmon Company in 2019.
Ownership timeline of Native Hebridean
- 2019 – present Bakkafrost [1] reported
Where Native Hebridean sits in Bakkafrost
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Bakkafrost
Bakkafrost controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in fish & seafood, and who owns them
Bakkafrost has more brands in fish & seafood on Brandtree than any other owner: 6 of 38.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Fisher Boy | High Liner Foods | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Isabel | Bolton Group | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| La Monégasque | Unimer | 🇲🇦 Morocco |
| Ōra King | NZ King Salmon | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
| Mushroom | QL Resources | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Ducktrap River of Maine | Mowi | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| Coln Valley Smokery | PRFoods | 🇪🇪 Estonia |
| Nutaaq | Royal Greenland | 🇬🇱 Greenland |
About the owner: Bakkafrost
Bakkafrost is a publicly listed company headquartered in Glyvrar, Faroe Islands, founded in 1968. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as OSL: BAKKA.
Bakkafrost is a Faroese salmon farmer, established at Glyvrar in 1968 by the brothers Hans and Róland Jacobsen and listed on Oslo Børs since 2010. It farms in the Faroe Islands and, since buying The Scottish Salmon Company in the fourth quarter of 2019, in Scotland, and it makes its own feed at Havsbrún in Fuglafjørður. In 2025 it harvested 106,823 tonnes gutted weight on operating revenues of DKK 7.0 billion, with 1,635 employees and sales into more than 40 countries. It runs its own cargo aircraft so that fresh salmon reaches the United States and China within a day of leaving the water.
🇬🇧 Native Hebridean and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 571 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 297 of them (52%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Native Hebridean among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Native Hebridean?
The parent company of Native Hebridean is Bakkafrost, a publicly listed company headquartered in Faroe Islands.
Is Native Hebridean British or Faroese?
Native Hebridean originated in the United Kingdom, but it is owned today by Bakkafrost, which is headquartered in Faroe Islands. So Native Hebridean is a British-origin brand under Faroese ownership.
Since when has Bakkafrost owned Native Hebridean?
Bakkafrost has owned Native Hebridean since 2019.
Is Native Hebridean still owned by Bakkafrost?
Yes. As of 21 September 2026, Native Hebridean is still owned by Bakkafrost. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Bakkafrost Integrated Annual Report 2025 — P/F Bakkafrost, Annual report, published 27 March 2026; retrieved 21 September 2026.
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