Norstat was acquired by Triton

Norstat Group, an Oslo, Norway-based company providing market research services, announced that it entered into an agreement for getting new shareholders in the company.

The deal, which has financial details undisclosed, was made by actual owners, Verdane Capital, which sold their equity stake to Triton Partners, an Oslo-based mid-market private equity investor.

Norstat, led by CEO Knut Aasrud, is a pan-European provider of panel access data collection services for consumer market research. The company is currently active in 18 European countries with 175 FTEs across its 22 offices, and covers the entire spectrum of data collection methods, from face-to-face interviews and mystery shopping to online surveys.