Company
Rieber & Søn Oy
Finnish confectionery company that held the Panda brand from the 1988 management buy-out until 2000, registered as Oy Panda Ab and later renamed Rieber & Søn Oy.
- Registered in
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- Founded
- 30 November 1988
- Brands here
- 1
- Products here
- 0
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About Rieber & Søn Oy
Rieber & Søn Oy was the Finnish company that made Panda liquorice and chocolate at Vaajakoski in Jyväskylä between the 1988 management buy-out of the factory from SOK and 2000. The trade register entered it as Oy Panda Ab on 30 November 1988 with business ID 0721825-6, its line of business the manufacture of cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionery, recorded the name Rieber & Søn Oy on 8 November 2000 and shows it ceased on 10 January 2005.[1] On that same November day a second company, Profipri Oy, took the name Oy Panda Ab and with it the Panda business.[2] This company held the Panda brand for those twelve years, which is why the brand page carries it as a former owner.
Panda's own history dates the stages: SOK sold the business to the factory's management in 1988, creating a privately owned Oy Panda Ab; the Norwegian food group Rieber & Søn ASA bought Panda in 1995; and the Finnish fund manager MB-Rahastot bought Oy Panda Ab in 2000.[3] Finnish Wikipedia tells the same sequence, and adds that the management bought the company back into Finnish ownership together with a private equity investor.[4]
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References
- ↑ PRH YTJ open data: Rieber & Søn Oy, business ID 0721825-6, registered as Oy Panda Ab 1988-2000, ceased 2005 Finnish Patent and Registration Office. registry. Accessed 2026-09-24. Record: 0721825-6. lastModified 2018-02-28.
- ↑ PRH YTJ open data: Oy Panda Ab (1459878-7, 2000-2013) and the earlier Oy Panda Ab (0721825-6, renamed Rieber & Søn Oy) Finnish Patent and Registration Office. registry. Accessed 2026-09-21. Record: 1459878-7. companies[1]; lastModified 2026-08-19.
- ↑ Panda: Tarinamme, the brand's own dated history from 1920 to the 2020s, with the trademark notice in the site footer Orkla Suomi Finland Oy Ab. manufacturer. Accessed 2026-09-24.
- ↑ Wikipedia (fi): Panda (makeisvalmistaja) Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-24. CC BY-SA 4.0.
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