Vaasan & Vaasan Oy and the international biscuit producer KelsenBisca
A/S have established co-operation. According to the agreement Vaasan &
Vaasan Oy starts marketing the products of KelsenBisca in Finland from
September 1, 2003. KelsenBisca will sell and market crisp bread products of
Vaasan & Vaasan Oy in Danish markets.
KelsenBisca is the market leader for biscuits and cookies in the Nordic
countries. The company has three factories comprising 34 production lines in
Denmark. The head office of KelsenBisca is located in Copenhagen. Main brands
Kjeldsens, Bisca, KarenVolf and Royal Dansk are widely known. 40% of
KelsenBisca products are sold in Denmark and other Nordic countries and the
remaining 60 % are exported to the other parts of the world. The turnover of
KelsenBisca is 1.5 billion DKK. The company has appr. 1000 employees.
”Our goal is to achieve a substantial growth of KelsenBisca products in the
Finnish market of biscuits and cookies. KelsenBisca assortment applies
extremely well to the product range of Vaasan & Vaasan Oy. The
establishment of sales channel to Danish markets through KelsenBisca promotes
substantially our export efforts in Denmark”, says Kari Oksanen, Sales
Director of Vaasan &Vaasan Oy, about the benefits offered by the agreement.
For additional information, please contact:
Vaasan & Vaasan Oy
Kari Oksanen, Sales Director
phone +358 (0) 204 46 2006 or +358 (0) 400-452 694
www.vaasan.com
Vaasan & Vaasan
Group is the biggest baking company in the market area of Finland and Baltic
States, one of the world’s largest producers of crisp bread and an important
Nordic bake-off producer.
Vaasan & Vaasan Group includes Vaasan & Vaasan Oy in Finland, AS Leibur
in Estonia, A/S Hanzas Maiznicas in Latvia, UAB Vilniaus Duona Plius in
Lithuania and Delice Scandinavica AB in Sweden. The company turnover in 2002
was EUR 260 million and the amount of personnel approximately 4 200.