Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, seeing painting and sculpture as "branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture." Aalto's early career ran in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the 20th century. Many of his clients were industrialists, among them the Ahlström-Gullichsen family, who became his patrons. The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards.
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area, but the company's actual roots are in the Tampere region of Pirkanmaa. In 2020, Nokia employed approximately 92,000 people across over 100 countries, did business in more than 130 countries, and reported annual revenues of around €23 billion. Nokia is a public limited company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. It was the world's 415th-largest company measured by 2016 revenues, according to the Fortune Global 500, having peaked at 85th place in 2009. It is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.
Valmet Oyj, a Finnish company, is a developer and supplier of technologies, automation systems and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries.
The Finnish sauna is a substantial part of Finnish and Estonian culture.
Sampo Group is a significant Nordic insurance group made up of the parent company Sampo plc, P&C Insurance Holding Ltd, Mandatum Holding Ltd, Danish insurer Topdanmark and British P&C insurer Hastings, all of which are its subsidiaries. The parent company in Helsinki administers the subsidiaries. Sampo Group employs over 13,500 employees. Torbjörn Magnusson is the CEO of Sampo Group. Antti Mäkinen was elected as Chair of the Board of Sampo on 17 May 2023.
Osakeyhtiö, often abbreviated to Oy, is the term for a Finnish limited company. The Swedish-language term is aktiebolag, often abbreviated to Ab. The Swedish abbreviation is sometimes included, as in Ab Company Oy, Oy Company Ab, or Company Oy Ab. The abbreviations have been styled in many ways, such as Oy, OY, O.Y., or even O/Y. The English form is Ltd.
The S Group is a Finnish retailing cooperative organisation with its head office in Helsinki. Founded in 1904, it consists of 20 regional cooperatives operating all around Finland in addition to SOK, Suomen Osuuskauppojen Keskuskunta. S Group operates in the markets for groceries, consumer durables, service station, hotel and restaurant services. It is engaged in close competition with Kesko, with which it shares an oligopolistic position in many of the markets it operates in.
Fiskars Group is a Finnish group company. The company has its roots in the village of Fiskars, where it was founded in 1649. The oldest business still operating in Finland, its global headquarters are in Keilaniemi, Espoo, Finland. It is one of the oldest companies in the world.
Nasdaq, Inc. is an American multinational financial services corporation that owns and operates three stock exchanges in the United States: the namesake Nasdaq stock exchange, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and the Boston Stock Exchange, and seven European stock exchanges: Nasdaq Copenhagen, Nasdaq Helsinki, Nasdaq Iceland, Nasdaq Riga, Nasdaq Stockholm, Nasdaq Tallinn, and Nasdaq Vilnius. It is headquartered in New York City, and its president and chief executive officer is Adena Friedman.
Honkarakenne Oyj is a Finnish company that manufactures log homes. Honka is also a registered trademark of the company.
Okmetic is a Chinese-owned company in Finland that supplies tailored, high value-added silicon wafers to be used in the manufacture of sensors as well as discrete semiconductors and analog circuits. Okmetic has a global customer base and sales network based in Finland, the United States, Japan, China and Hong Kong. In addition, the company has sales agents in China, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Finland, where the majority of the company's silicon wafers are manufactured. The company also has contract manufacturing in Japan and China.
The Nasdaq Copenhagen, formerly known as the Copenhagen Stock Exchange, is an international marketplace for Danish securities, including shares, bonds, treasury bills and notes, and financial futures and options.
Ahlstrom-Munksjö Oyj is a manufacturer of fiber-based products. Renewable fibers represent about 95% of Ahlstrom's total fiber use.
Innofactor Plc is a Finnish software provider focused on Microsoft solutions in the Nordic Countries. Innofactor delivers to its customers IT projects as a system integrator and develops its own software products and services. The focus area in its own product development is Microsoft's cloud solutions. In 2021 approximately half of Innofactor's net sales came from recurring contracts. Innofactor's customers include over 1,000 private and public sector organizations.
Borenius Attorneys Ltd, founded in 1911, is a Finnish law firm that specialises in corporate law. Borenius was ranked as the Most Innovative Law Firm of the Year in the 2019 edition of IFLR and received top rankings also in the Legal 500 EMEA and Chambers Global directories in 2020. Between 2015 and 2019, Borenius has been involved in roughly 40% of the NASDAQ Helsinki listings.
Caesarstone Ltd., or Caesarstone, is a publicly traded company that engages in the production and marketing of quartz surfaces used for kitchen countertops, vanity tops, flooring, wall cladding and general interior design. The company was founded in 1987 and is traded on the NASDAQ in New York (CSTE). Headquarters are located in Kibbutz Sdot Yam in Israel. Production facilities are in Israel, the United States and India with third party manufactured product sourced from China. Its products are sold in approximately 50 countries around the world through a network of 6 subsidiaries and numerous distributors.
Freedom Holding Corp. is an investment conglomerate registered in Nevada, USA. The company provides a range of services in retail financial securities brokerage and trading, asset management, capital markets, investment research and counseling, investment banking and underwriting services, mortgages, insurance, and consumer banking. Its main area of focus is in the American stock market, as well as the markets of Central Asia, mainly Kazakhstan.
Componenta is a contract manufacturer of cast and machined metal components, located in Finland. Its customers are typically global manufacturers of vehicles, machines and equipment. Componenta is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki.
Eagle Filters Group Oyj is a Finnish industrial company that manufactures gas turbine air intake filters for the energy and process industries, energy-saving and filtration efficiency-enhancing fibre solutions for industrial and building applications, and FFP2/FFP3 respirators for healthcare professionals and industry.
Puuilo is a Finnish retail chain founded in 1982. The chain specializes in selling DIY products, such as tools, products for construction, and electrical and plumbing supplies. In addition, Puuilo also sells garden accessories, car accessories, household items, pet products and leisure products. Puuilo has about 40 stores in different parts of Finland.
