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{{Short description|Brand name used by Nortura}}
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{{Infobox Brand
|logo=
|name=Gilde
|image=[[Image:Gilde logo.png|centre]]
|type= [[Red meat]]
|currentowner=[[Nortura]]
|origin=[[Norway]]
|discontinued=
|related=
|markets= [[Norway]]
|previousowners= 1959 - [[Norges Kjøtt og Fleskesentral]]<br/>1990 - [[Norsk Kjøttsamvirke]]<br/>2006 - [[Nortura]]
|trademarkregistrations=
|website=http://www.gilde.no/
}}

'''Gilde''' is a [[brand name]] used by the [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[meat processing]] company [[Nortura]] on its [[red meat]]s; including beef, pork, lamb, veal, reindeer. 

Until 2006 the brand was managed by the [[agricultural cooperative]] [[Gilde Norsk Kjøtt]] who then merged with [[Prior Norge]] to form Nortura. The brand was first used in Northern Norway by the local meat cooperatives in 1959, and became a national brand in 1964.

There is a full range of red meat products available under the Gilde brand, including
* Biff ([[beef]])
* Pølser ([[Hot dog|wiener]]s)
* Edelgris (pork)
* Birkebeiner ([[cured meat]]s)
* Go' og Mager (milk free and low fat meat)
* Gourmet Lam ([[Lamb and mutton|lamb]] meat from [[Hardangervidda]])
* Norsk Gourmet Kalv ([[veal]])
* Norsk Kjøttfe (beef from the breeds [[Charolais (cattle)|Charolais]], [[Hereford (cattle)|Hereford]], [[Simmental Cattle|Simmental]], [[Aberdeen Angus]] and [[Limousin (cattle)|Limousin]])
* Naturlig Godt økologisk ([[organic food|organic]])

==External links==
* [http://www.gilde.no www.gilde.no]
* [http://www.nortura.no/?lang=en_US Nortura, English homepage]

{{Agricultural cooperatives in Norway}}

[[Category:Norwegian brands]]
[[Category:Brand name meats]]