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Finland's Valio Hails 'Flexible' Strategy As Full-Year Sales Rise

Finnish dairy company Valio Group has said that its 'flexible production capacity', which enabled it to shift its packaging operations from HoReCa to consu...

Stora Enso To Plant Over 48m Saplings In Nordic Forests

Packaging firm Stora Enso has announced that it plans to plant more than 48 million saplings in the Nordic forests in 2021. The saplings will be planted...

The Private Label Issue – Kesko

As part of ESM's annual Private Label Issue, we spoke to Elina Suuriniemi, planning manager at Finnish retailer Kesko, about how the prolonged closure of t...

Finland's R-kioski Expands Food Home Delivery With Foodora

Finnish convenience retailer R-kioski has announced that it has expanded its food home delivery services through a collaboration with Foodora. In the be...

Finland's Kesko Sees Comparable Sales Up In April

Finland's Kesko Group has reported an 11.7% year-on-year growth in comparable sales to €969.1 million in April. The company's grocery trade divisio...

Cherkizovo Group Completes Acquisition Of Pit-Product

Russian meat processor Cherkizovo Group has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Pit-Product from Finland's Atria Group. The tra...

Cheers! Finnish Retailer K-Citymarket Opens On-Site Brewery

With Europe's retailers reallocating hypermarket space to various enterprises, Finland's K-Citymarket Tammisto has unveiled what it says is a European firs...

Stora Enso Sees Paper Business Returning To Profit

Finnish forestry firm Stora Enso posted a bigger-than-expected jump in first quarter operating profit on Friday but said its paper division fell to a loss...