Exports of the brand "Spilva" and "Gutta" increased by 32%

The export volume of Spilva and Gutta, owner of Orkla Foods Latvia in the first half of this year, increased by 32% over the same period a year ago, said Raitis Avots, director marketing of Orkla Foods Latvia.

"In the first six months of the year, the Orkla Foods Latvija business figure has been steadily increasing in the Latvian market, but it has increased rapidly by 32% compared to the same period of the previous year ". He added that in the first six months of this year, Orkla Foods Latvia's production volume in Denmark and Finland has increased the fastest. Similarly, the company resumed its exports to Kazakhstan and Orkla Foods Latvia started selling its products in the Netherlands in 2018.

The source pointed out that Orkla Latvia Foods continues to expand its production for the export markets. new products. "A new series of tomato sauces was created in honor of Latvia's centenary, but this is not the only novelty, there are supplements in other categories", said the marketing director of Orkla Foods Latvia. Investments in the amount of 755,000 euros, mainly related to Orkla Foods Latvia's production plant at Babite Spilve, specializing in the development of a group of Orkla sauces and mayonnaises, providing them with a region wider in several European countries. To achieve this goal, modernization of production facilities, improvement of infrastructure, more efficient use of energy resources

In 2016, Orkla Foods Latvia launched an ambitious structural change project in all Orkla Foods plants in the Member States. Baltic. The main objective of the project was to make the specialized factories to make them more efficient in the production of certain product groups. As part of this project, the production unit of Orkla Foods Latvia in the Babites region specializes in the production of sauces and mayonnaises, becoming a producer of these products not only for the Latvian markets but also Estonian, Lithuanian and Finnish. Latvia's Foods in 2017 was 31.518 million euros and a profit of 2.303 million euros

The Norwegian company Orkla bought NP Foods in August 2014, while in October it decided to combining NP Foods, AS "Laima, AS Staburadze and Latfood AS in a company, namely SIA Orkla Confectionery and Snacks Latvia, but Spilva Ltd. and Gutta were merged into a company called Orkla Foods Latvia