HKFoods' journey into a fundamentally strongly Finnish yet internationally operating listed company started in January 1913, when about twenty farmers from the south-west of Finland founded Lounais-Suomen Osuusteurastamo.
110 Meaty Years
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2024
Corporation’s name changed to HKFoods
2023-2024
Years of changes
2022
Change of CEO
2019
New strategy, Turnaround programme and partnerships
2018
Exports to China started
2017
Rauma poultry unit completed
2015
HKScan acquired a 50% stake in Paimion Teurastamo, a cattle slaughterhouse
2014
HKScan divested its ownership of Sokolóv by selling its stake in Saturn Nordic Holding AB
2013
The food industry expert turns 100
2011
HK Rypsiporsas®
2010
Arriving on Danish soil
2007
Expansion to Sweden
2003
Arrangements on the domestic front
2002
Poland becomes a country of interest
2001
Poultry house Tallegg
1998
Internationalisation begins at Rakvere
1993
New growth through Kariniemi
1991
Ruokatalo comes to Vantaa
The meat industry's major restructuring begins
1989
SOT's merger with LSO
1988
The beginnings of HKScan
1985
S Group withdraws from the meat industry
1983
Broilertalo's Säkylä plant opens for production
1981
OTK sells its meat business
1977
Retail shops
1976
HK Kabanossi® and the new age of barbecue
1975
Forssa becomes a centre for slaughterhouses
1971
The market in southern Finland gains clarity
1968
The introduction of Popsi sausages
1964
The operating area expands for the first time
1963
HK Sininen Lenkki® enters the market
1958
Free up homemakers' time
1949
The beginnings of Helsingin Kauppiaat
1938
The golden age of exports
1936
The central firm TLK is born
1921
Motor vehicles arrive on the scene
1913
A hundred years ago
