Peder Smedvig

In 1915, Smedvig started a shipping company.^[1] In 1935, he started Smedvig Tankrederi, but in World War II, four out of the five ships were lost.^[1]

After he died in 1959, his son Torolf Smedvig took over the running of the company and the canned food business became a separate company run by another branch of the family.^[1][2]