Orkla is a prominent supplier of branded consumer goods and concept solutions, primarily serving the grocery sector, out-of-home sector, and bakeries, with a strong presence in the Nordic and Baltic regions, as well as selected markets in Central Europe and India. The company operates through four main business areas: Orkla Foods, Orkla Confectionery & Snacks, Orkla Home & Personal, and Orkla Food Ingredients. Orkla Foods encompasses various food businesses across the Nordics, Baltics, Austria, the Czech Republic, and India, including brands such as Orkla Foods Norge and MTR Foods. In addition to its consumer goods operations, Orkla engages in investments related to hydro power, real estate, and financial assets. Founded in 1918 and headquartered in Oslo, Orkla employs approximately 13,000 people and had a turnover of NOK 30 billion in 2014. The company has been focused on optimizing its manufacturing structure and sales functions to enhance efficiency and strengthen its partnerships within the retail sector.
CEO and Executive Vice President Orkla Foods (International)
26 past transactions
BUBS Godis
Acquisition in 2022
BUBS is a high-tech company that makes candy in one of the Nordics' most modern candy factories. There is advanced and automated equipment, and BUBS is likely the country's only candy factory with driverless trucks.
Khell-Food
Acquisition in 2022
Khell Food is a Hungary-based producer of ready-made foods, specializing in a diverse range of sandwiches and baguettes. The company focuses on using premium ingredients to cater to various market needs, offering products such as pitas and triangular sandwiches. Khell Food distributes its offerings through multiple sales channels, including petrol stations, ensuring accessibility for consumers seeking convenient meal options.
Denali Ingredients
Acquisition in 2022
Denali Ingredients is a manufacturer of food ingredients that caters to the ice cream, novelty, fluid dairy, bakery, and foodservice markets. The company specializes in a diverse range of products, including baked inclusions, cookie dough and bits, flakes, barks, variegates, flavor bases, fruit packs and purees, and eggnog bases. Additionally, Denali Ingredients provides stabilizers and texture systems to enhance the quality and consistency of various food products. Through its comprehensive offerings, the company supports the needs of food manufacturers and helps them deliver innovative and appealing products to consumers.
Knodd
Venture Round in 2022
Knodd is a developer of a mobile application focused on child and parental healthcare. The application serves as a centralized platform for children's health, providing personalized tips and guidance from experienced child nurses and doctors. It utilizes an artificial intelligence engine to assist and empower parents, particularly in the early stages of parenthood. Users can engage in video calls with healthcare professionals, allowing them to quickly obtain answers to their child health-related questions at no cost. This approach aims to enhance the support available to parents as they navigate the complexities of child health.
Healthily
Venture Round in 2022
Healthily is a pioneering self-care app that provides users with medically approved health information tailored to their individual needs. The application utilizes responsive AI technology to deliver trusted insights and tools, enabling users to better understand their health and take informed steps for self-care. With features such as a symptom checker, users can communicate their health concerns through voice or text and receive clinically assured responses. This innovative approach has garnered a wide user base globally and attracted support from prominent investors and health organizations, reinforcing its commitment to online clinical safety and empowering individuals to manage their health effectively.
Knodd
Seed Round in 2022
Knodd is a developer of a mobile application focused on child and parental healthcare. The application serves as a centralized platform for children's health, providing personalized tips and guidance from experienced child nurses and doctors. It utilizes an artificial intelligence engine to assist and empower parents, particularly in the early stages of parenthood. Users can engage in video calls with healthcare professionals, allowing them to quickly obtain answers to their child health-related questions at no cost. This approach aims to enhance the support available to parents as they navigate the complexities of child health.
Cerve
Seed Round in 2022
Cerve is a platform designed to enhance communication between wholesalers and B2B buyers in the food industry. It offers a personalized, automated experience by delivering customized product catalogs, pricing, and delivery terms across various devices and platforms. Cerve serves as an end-to-end solution, equipping wholesalers with critical tools such as an AI infrastructure, an ordering platform, a sales application, and a dedicated wholesaler platform. The company focuses on facilitating seamless integration and operational automation for various stakeholders in the food sector, including manufacturers, wholesalers, buying groups, operators, caterers, and marketplaces. By providing these resources, Cerve helps businesses scale their operations more efficiently and effectively.
Hadecoup
Acquisition in 2022
Hadecoup is a distributor based in Herk-de-stad, Belgium, specializing in the sale and distribution of ice cream ingredients and accessories. The company offers a comprehensive product portfolio that includes items such as coupes, cups, cones, toppings, and decorations, as well as essential ingredients like base powders, sugars, and flavor pastes and powders. By providing a wide range of products, Hadecoup enables ice cream makers to source all necessary components for ice cream preparation from a single supplier.
Bower
Series A in 2022
Bower is a mobile application that offers a deposit solution for consumer packaging, aiming to minimize environmental waste by incentivizing recycling. By assigning a monetary value to various types of packaging, such as plastic bags and takeaway boxes, Bower encourages consumers to recycle through a pledge or deposit system. Utilizing innovative position-based scanning technology, users can easily scan packaging at designated recycling stations to receive a deposit directly to their mobile devices. This approach eliminates the need for costly reverse vending machines, as consumers can recycle at existing stations. Additionally, Bower fosters a direct relationship between consumer brands and their customers by allowing brands to take responsibility for their packaging, thereby enhancing recycling rates through financial incentives.
Vesterålen Marine Oil
Acquisition in 2022
Vesterålen Marine’s business concept is stewarding raw material and producing marine oils and marine proteins from the residual raw materials from white fish for local, national, and international markets. the company purchases residual raw materials from white fish from fish landing centers throughout North Norway.
GroGro
Seed Round in 2021
Grogro is a Norwegian company that specializes in fresh, organic prepared food for babies and toddlers. Founded by nutritionist and author Malin Bruset, Grogro aims to make nutritious meals accessible and convenient for parents, promoting the development and health of children. The company offers a range of products made from premium organic ingredients, utilizing innovative high-pressure technology to preserve nutrients and flavor while ensuring that the food is gluten and milk-free. With a team of four businesswomen who possess expertise in nutrition, business strategy, and marketing, Grogro seeks to disrupt the traditional prepared baby food market by raising awareness about children's nutrition and transforming how baby food is consumed.
BioCraft Pet Nutrition
Seed Round in 2021
BioCraft Pet Nutrition is a biotechnology company focused on creating sustainable and nutritious pet food for dogs and cats. Established in 2016 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the company specializes in developing all-natural, organic products that incorporate innovative ingredients such as probiotics, nutritional yeast, and cultured meat. BioCraft aims to promote the health of pets while minimizing environmental impact and animal harm. The company's unique approach leverages green biotechnology to produce its offerings, which are available for purchase online. Through its commitment to sustainability and animal welfare, BioCraft Pet Nutrition stands out as a pioneer in the pet food industry.
Fort Deli
Acquisition in 2021
Fort Deli is a food import company. we develop together according to customers' needs. Fort Deli is well known in Finland for concepts such as Hank’s Sauces, Nonna’s Sauces, and Texas Pete Hot Sauce, and is an established supplier of frozen products, sauces, and condiments in Finland.
NutraQ
Acquisition in 2021
NutraQ is a privately held company based in Oslo, Norway, specializing in the manufacture of food supplements, skincare products, and medical devices. The company produces dietary supplements and immune-modulating ingredients, particularly yeast beta-glucans, which are utilized in food, beverages, and personal care items. NutraQ's focus on these areas positions it as a key player in the health and wellness industry, catering to a diverse range of consumer needs.
Farmforce
Venture Round in 2020
Farmforce is a developer of a digital farming platform that aims to enhance food supply quality through data-driven insights. The company's software solutions offer visibility and traceability in the early stages of food sourcing, allowing organizations to ensure sustainable sourcing practices. By digitizing information related to smallholder producers, Farmforce helps improve the quality of life for farmers while also promoting environmental protection. This approach supports clients in managing their food-sourcing operations more effectively and responsibly.
Bower
Seed Round in 2020
Bower is a mobile application that offers a deposit solution for consumer packaging, aiming to minimize environmental waste by incentivizing recycling. By assigning a monetary value to various types of packaging, such as plastic bags and takeaway boxes, Bower encourages consumers to recycle through a pledge or deposit system. Utilizing innovative position-based scanning technology, users can easily scan packaging at designated recycling stations to receive a deposit directly to their mobile devices. This approach eliminates the need for costly reverse vending machines, as consumers can recycle at existing stations. Additionally, Bower fosters a direct relationship between consumer brands and their customers by allowing brands to take responsibility for their packaging, thereby enhancing recycling rates through financial incentives.
GroGro
Seed Round in 2019
Grogro is a Norwegian company that specializes in fresh, organic prepared food for babies and toddlers. Founded by nutritionist and author Malin Bruset, Grogro aims to make nutritious meals accessible and convenient for parents, promoting the development and health of children. The company offers a range of products made from premium organic ingredients, utilizing innovative high-pressure technology to preserve nutrients and flavor while ensuring that the food is gluten and milk-free. With a team of four businesswomen who possess expertise in nutrition, business strategy, and marketing, Grogro seeks to disrupt the traditional prepared baby food market by raising awareness about children's nutrition and transforming how baby food is consumed.
Tise
Seed Round in 2019
Tise is a Norwegian software company that specializes in a mobile marketplace designed for selling and discovering second-hand fashion, home decor, and furniture. The Tise app, available on iOS and Android, combines elements of social media and classified ads, making it easier for users to buy and sell items in a more engaging and less stigmatizing environment. By addressing the barriers that often prevent individuals from participating in the second-hand market, Tise aims to promote sustainable consumption practices. The platform allows users to browse and follow advertisements, engage in conversations with sellers, and facilitate transactions, all within a community-focused experience. Tise seeks to motivate users to participate in the green movement by transforming the process of selling and shopping into a fun and inspiring activity.
Vibbio
Angel Round in 2017
VIBBIO is a video creation and management platform designed to enhance workplace communications through video storytelling. It enables businesses to effectively engage employees, facilitate training, and communicate internal updates by offering tools that allow users to create videos quickly and easily. The platform supports various functionalities, including the ability to upload and record content, soft-edit videos, add supporting texts and subtitles, and apply automatic branding. VIBBIO also features a cloud-based library for content storage and promotes collaboration among users, allowing them to reuse videos and create custom templates. By leveraging VIBBIO, organizations can ensure their communications are engaging, on-brand, and impactful, making it a valuable resource for improving the employee experience.
Healthily
Venture Round in 2017
Healthily is a pioneering self-care app that provides users with medically approved health information tailored to their individual needs. The application utilizes responsive AI technology to deliver trusted insights and tools, enabling users to better understand their health and take informed steps for self-care. With features such as a symptom checker, users can communicate their health concerns through voice or text and receive clinically assured responses. This innovative approach has garnered a wide user base globally and attracted support from prominent investors and health organizations, reinforcing its commitment to online clinical safety and empowering individuals to manage their health effectively.
SR Food
Acquisition in 2017
SR Food A/S is a Danish company based in Randers that specializes in the production and sale of a diverse range of food products. Founded in 2002, it focuses on convenience items, ready meals, fresh pasta, charcuterie, and dairy products, catering primarily to the Scandinavian market. The company also offers a variety of other food items, including doughs, barbecue and sausage products, tapas and snacks, organic products, and bacon. SR Food aims to provide customers with affordable access to fresh food and snacks. As of May 2017, it operates as a subsidiary of Dragsbæk A/S.
Cederroth Intressenter AB
Acquisition in 2015
Cederroth is a manufacturer and distributor of products in the personal care, healthcare, wound care, household and first aid sectors. In each product category, the company has a number of successful brands with strong positions in highly competitive markets. Several of our products are manufactured at our own plants in Sweden, Denmark, Poland and Spain.
MTR Foods
Acquisition in 2007
MTR Foods is a food products company based in Bangalore, India, specializing in the production of a diverse range of packaged foods. The company's offerings include breakfast mixes, ready-to-eat meals, masalas and spices, snacks, rice pastes, beverages, desserts, and various vegetarian foods. MTR Foods operates as a subsidiary of Orkla, a Norwegian conglomerate. The brand name MTR stands for Mavalli Tiffin Rooms, reflecting its heritage and commitment to quality culinary offerings.
Dansk Droge
Acquisition in 2006
Dansk Droge manufactures and markets a wide range of health-related consumer products, including the Futura, Gerimax, Livol.
Tinde
Acquisition in 2004
Tinde is leading Norwegian online marketplace and service provider for property services. The marketplace (www.tinde.com) offers users the ability to search a database of residential and professional real-estate objects for sale and rent. The service is distributed through real estate agents.
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