VALIO

'Valio' is one of the biggest companies in Finland and mostly produces dairy products such as ice cream, butter, yoghurt and milk. Valio is Finland's largest foodstuff company, producing over 80% of Finland's milk. Valio translates to English as "elite".

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History

Valio was founded in 1905 by 17 shared dairies. The name of Valio was by that time "Voivienti-osuusliike Valio r.l". Their activity started in Hanko, and the most important buyer was England.
Valio's activities expanded from butter to other dairy products in 1909, and by 1920's Valio's marketing in Finland was bigger than abroad. Nowadays 1300 products belong to Valio's product range.
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen is Finland's only person who received the Nobel of Chemistry was an employee in Valio. The prize was given for benefit which Virtanen's workteam brought with AIV-fodder.
Valio sold it's ice cream activity to overseas company Nestlé in 2004. Nestlé also got the right to use the "Valiojäätelö" name for a long time.
In 2005 the Valion Jäätelöbaari was opened in Kampin Keskus. The Ice cream bar in Kampin Keskus (Kamppi's shoppingcentre) was designed by Paola Suhonen.
In 2007 Valio invests approx. Mio € 27 in a factory near Moscow for packaging of cheese and butter for the Russian market. The products are mostly imported from the mother company in Finland. The capacity of the plant will be 8,000 mt per year, 400 employees will work in the factory. The turn-over of Valio in Russia was Mio € 150 in 2006 ^[1].

External links

★ Official site

Sources

1. "Zuivelzicht" 9 Mai, 2007