
3 minute read
once again
from Delivered 1/2021 ENG
by Kustmedia


Orkla – always in your shopping cart
Text: Anna Sand • Picture: Linda Svarfvar and press images from Orkla
Orkla? Have you never heard of them? You should have. Every time you go shopping in a grocery store you probably buy some of their products and it is also very likely that they have been delivered by a Scandic Trans vehicle. T he Norwegian owned food corporation is one of the biggest companies in the Nordic countries when it comes to daily consumer goods, with around 18 000 employees and over 100 factories in 20 countries. The product portfolio is wide and in Finland Orkla operates within five different business areas. Orkla Suomi consists of Orkla Foods Finland and Orkla Confectionery & Snacks Finland – the two leading food businesses in the country. Additionally the company Orkla Care Finland develops products for personal well-being as well as cleaning and household products, while Condite is the country’s number one importer and wholesaler when it comes to raw material for the bakery and food industry. Finally, the company Pierre Robert focuses on underwear, also sold within the retail trade. This spring the corporate group expanded on the Finnish market by acquiring the domestic company Fort Deli, which provides frozen products, sauces and condiments. The purpose is to create two parallel units – one that focuses on the sale of daily consumer goods and one focusing on the HoReCa-sector. Orkla’s latest acquisition in Finland before that was made in 2019 when they took over Kotipizza Group – this was also a part of the same strategy. Kotipizza was founded by the Vaasa resident Rabbe Grönblom in 1987 and over the years it became the biggest pizza chain in the Nordic countries.


Every time you go shopping you probably buy one of Orkla’s products. Some of their most famous brands are Panda, Felix and Taffel.
– For us it was a given to switch to more environmental friendly fuels for our transports, something Scandic Trans also has given us the opportunity to do.

Orkla has two factories in Finland – one in Vaajakoski and one on the Åland Islands. – Of the products manufactured in Vaajakoski about 70 percent is distributed on the domestic market, and the rest is exported, Mauri Suuronen, Logistics and SC Planning Manager, tells us. The potato and chips products manufactured on Åland are sold exclusively in Finland, Suuronen continues.
In Turku they have their own logistics center and both export and import have for many years now been handled by Scandic Trans. – We are talking big volumes daily – often temperature controlled goods in some form. The trucks are fully loaded and the high quality of the transports and customer service at Scandic Trans is important to us. When choosing freight forwarder it is the entirety that is decisive, and it consists of five different parts: quality, price, the sustainability and environment aspect and also the partnership itself and the valuation therein, Suuronen explains.
Despite the past year’s challenges Orkla has put an offensive focus on the development of plant based food, reducing the greenhouse gases within their own business and also on new packaging solutions, which make the product portfolio more sustainable. – Last year 95 percent of Orkla’s packages were reusable and 47 percent of the packages were entirely or partially based on recycled material. Orkla’s goal for 2025 is 100 respectively 75 percent.
Since 2014 the corporate group has reduced the emissions of greenhouse gases within their own business with 62 percent, and last year the global nonprofit environment organization CDP named Orkla one of the world’s best public companies when it comes to climate leadership. Orkla was given the highest mark, A, which places the corporate group among the 270 best of more than 9 600 companies that took part in the reporting for year 2020. – For us it was a given to switch to more environmental friendly fuels for our transports, something Scandic Trans also has given us the opportunity to do, Suuronen concludes.