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# Rieber & Søn Oy <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Rieber & Søn Oy
disambiguation: Finnish sweet maker at Vaajakoski, registered as Oy Panda Ab 1988-2000; not the Oy Panda Ab of 1998-2013 that followed it, nor its Norwegian owner Rieber & Søn ASA
summary: 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.
legal_name: Rieber & Søn Oy
country: FI
register_ids: FI-Y:0721825-6
founded: 1988-11-30
dissolved: 2005-01-10
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target              | market | from | until      | ended | status  | source       | note                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| -------- | ------------------- | ------ | ---- | ---------- | ----- | ------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/rieber-soen |        | 1995 | 2005-01-10 | true  | sourced | ^panda-story | Panda's own history says the Norwegian Rieber & Søn ASA bought Panda in 1995; the register shows this company renamed Rieber & Søn Oy on 8 November 2000, when the brand and the business passed to the new Oy Panda Ab, and ceased on 10 January 2005 (^prh-panda) |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ---- | ------- | ------- | ------ | ---- |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name            | type  | locale | from       | until      |
| --------------- | ----- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| Oy Panda Ab     | legal |        | 1988-11-30 | 2000-11-07 |
| Rieber & Søn Oy | legal |        | 2000-11-08 | 2005-01-10 |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref          | url                                                                         | title                                                                                                                  | accessed   | publisher                              | kind         | published | record_id | locator                               | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | -------------------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ------------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| panda-story  | https://www.panda.fi/meista/tarinamme/                                      | Panda: Tarinamme, the brand's own dated history from 1920 to the 2020s, with the trademark notice in the site footer   | 2026-09-21 | Orkla Suomi Finland Oy Ab              | manufacturer |           |           |                                       |              |             |          |
| prh-panda    | https://avoindata.prh.fi/opendata-ytj-api/v3/companies?name=Oy%20Panda%20Ab | PRH YTJ open data: Oy Panda Ab (1459878-7, 2000-2013) and the earlier Oy Panda Ab (0721825-6, renamed Rieber & Søn Oy) | 2026-09-21 | Finnish Patent and Registration Office | registry     |           | 1459878-7 | companies[1]; lastModified 2026-08-19 |              |             |          |
| wikipedia-fi | https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_(makeisvalmistaja)                      | Wikipedia (fi): Panda (makeisvalmistaja)                                                                               | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia                              | publication  |           |           |                                       | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
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, and recorded the name Rieber & Søn Oy on 8 November 2000 — the same day a second company, Profipri Oy, took the name Oy Panda Ab and with it the Panda business; this company ceased on 10 January 2005.[^prh-panda] It 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, the Norwegian food group Rieber & Søn ASA bought Panda in 1995, and the Finnish fund manager MB-Rahastot bought it back into Finnish ownership in 2000.[^panda-story] Finnish Wikipedia tells the same sequence, and adds that the management bought the company back together with a private equity investor.[^wikipedia-fi]
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