BUSINESS TODAYIntercultural issues in Finland

1st December 2014

Contents

The pride of the Finnish business

The people behind the success

Paper & Pulp

Technology Design

Forest Industry (Pulp & Paper)

Forest Industry in Brief – Backbone of Finnish Economy

- EUR 19.4 million

EUR 6.8 million: Wood products industry

EUR 12.6 million: Pulp and paper industry

- 2/3 of land area is forest

- Ideal conditions (harsh climate + rocky soil)

- 188 000 lakes Waterways Move logs to mills

Pulp & Paper – a part of Finnish forest industry

Hand-paper machine

Jan 1667

1713

Mill was operated 1764

First commercial paper mill in Turku

1842

First machine paper mill

History

50 paper mills

Products

Pulp Paper

Paperboard Packaging Paper

Achievement

7th largest producer of paper and paperboard (RISI’s Statistic Data, 2011) – 11 329 ton

$ 16 227 million $ 13 920 million

4th 5th

Technology Industry Nokia

Game

Design

Fredrik Idestam (1838–1916)

– industrialist, founder of Nokia Ltd, organizational leader in the forest products industry.

The People Behind The Success

Kari Kairamo (1932–1988) – Chairman (1986–1988) and CEO of Nokia (1977–1988).

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (1953) – former Chairman, CEO and President of Nokia, currently chairs the committee for World Design Capital Helsinki 2012.

Jorma Ollila (1950) – Chairman (1999–2012) and CEO (1992–2006) of Nokia, Non-Executive Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell since 2006, member of the Board of Directors of UPM-Kymmene since 1997.

Sari Baldauf (1955) – former Nokia executive (1994–2005), currently a member of a number of executive boards of Finnish and international companies.

Aatos Erkko (1932–2012) – journalist, principal owner of Sanoma Corporation and the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, philanthropist and one of the most influential people in Finland.

Harry Harkimo (1953) – Chairman of the board of the Helsinki-based ice-hockey team Jokerit, the developer of the team's home arena, Hartwall Areena, and an investor in sports.

Armi Ratia

• Armia Ratia was born on 13 July, 1912 in Pälkjärvi, Karelia. Died on 3 October 1979 in Helsinki.

Antti Herlin

• Antti Herlin was born on 14th of November, 1956 in Kirkkonummi, Finland.

• Antti Herlin is the richest man in Finland. His fortune accounts for approximately 9.5 billion dollars.

Björn Arne Christer Wahlroos

• He was born on 10th of October, 1952 in Helsinki.

Björn Wahlroos is

the Chairman of the

Board in Sampo

Group, Nordea and

UPM-Kymmene.

Rudolf Walden (1878-1946)

• Rudolf Walden was born in Helsinki Finland on December 1, 1878.

• Died on November 1, 1946.

• He was a Finnish industrialist and a military leader.