Speakers

Lauri Multanen, Olvi Group Production Director has 35 years experience within food industry and supply chain. Multanen has worked in businesses like Fazer, United Biscuits (UK), Györi Keksz (HUN), Hartwall, Scottish Newcastle, Heineken and Olvi with more than 20 years in brewing industry. LEAN thinking, working safety and sustainable operations have been key themes throughout Multanen’s career.

Olvi is a Finnish beverage company, which wants to offer beverage enjoyment for its consumers. In 1878 Master Brewer William Gideon Åberg and his wife Onni founded a brewery in Iisalmi for the purpose of fighting drunkenness. In the spirit of the author Zacharias Topelius, they wanted to offer milder alternatives to citizens possessed by a lust for spirits. At that time, there were some 78 breweries in Finland. Olvi is the only one left in independent Finnish ownership.vCurrently the company operates locally in Finland, the Baltic states, Denmark and Belarus.