One hundred and seventy-five brand guides to Europe’s household food and drink brands.
These guides cover the national food and drink brands of Europe — the names on supermarket shelves in each country, from dairies and biscuit makers to breweries and mineral waters.
Western Europe and the Nordics
The guides include Spain’s Calvo, Cola Cao and Campofrío; France’s Herta, Fleury Michon and Bonduelle; Germany’s Dr. Oetker, Leibniz and Kühne; the Netherlands’ Calvé, Duyvis and Chocomel; and the Nordic Valio, Arla, Kalles Kaviar, Hartwall and Tuborg.
Central and Eastern Europe
They also cover Poland’s Łowicz, Krakus and Żywiec; Czech and Slovak names such as Budvar, Kozel and Mattoni; Hungary’s Pick, Szamos and Unicum; Austria’s Almdudler, Stiegl and Vöslauer; Switzerland’s Rivella and Emmi; the Baltic Laima, Saku and Švyturys; and the Balkan Podravka, Vegeta, Kraš, Jaffa and Štark.
How to use these guides
Each guide covers who owns the name today, where the products are made — by the maker’s own account and, where it differs, by other sources — and the brand’s visual identity. A company’s description of itself is attributed to the company, and where a business has closed we say so plainly. The table at the end gathers the essentials.
Spanish food
Calvo, Isabel, Cola Cao, Nocilla, ElPozo, Campofrío and Pescanova.
- Calvo — The Galician canned-tuna brand started by Luis Calvo Sanz in Carballo in 1940, which says it brought yellowfin and the round can to Spanish shelves, ran the famous “atún, Calvo, claro” TV spots from 1979 and now packs fish in Spain, El Salvador and Brazil.
- Isabel — The canned-fish brand of Conservas Garavilla, which says it was founded by José de Garavilla y Quintana in Elantxobe, Biscay, in 1887, launched Isabel in the 1960s with the jingle “¡Qué bien, hoy comemos con Isabel!” and has belonged to Italy’s Bolton since 2015–2016.
- Cola Cao — The soluble cocoa created in Barcelona’s Gràcia district in the mid-1940s by José María Ventura and José Ignacio Ferrero of Nutrexpa, known for its “grumitos,” a 1950s radio song rewritten in 2020, and owned since 2015 by Idilia Foods.
- Nocilla — The Spanish cocoa and hazelnut spread created by the Starlux group in 1967, sung as “leche, cacao, avellanas y azúcar,” sold for years in reusable drinking glasses, bought from Unilever by Nutrexpa in 2002 and owned since 2015 by Idilia Foods.
- ElPozo — The Alhama de Murcia meat and charcuterie brand of Grupo Fuertes, which grew from a delicatessen opened by Antonio Fuertes in 1936, began industrial production in 1954, first advertised on television in 1980 and backs the futsal club that carries its name.
- Campofrío — The charcuterie brand founded in Burgos in 1952 by José Luis Ballvé, listed in Madrid in 1988, owned by Mexico’s Sigma Alimentos since 2015, and known in Spain for the star-studded Christmas adverts it has made every year since “Cómicos” in 2011.
- Pescanova — The Vigo seafood brand founded in 1960 by José Fernández López and his brothers, which froze its catch on board its own ships, used the slogan “Lo bueno sale bien” and Rodolfo Langostino, and was refounded as Nueva Pescanova in 2015 after insolvency, now controlled by Abanca.
Spanish and Italian food
Fontaneda, Carbonell, Hojiblanca, Galbani, Star, Ponti and Bauli.
- Fontaneda — The biscuit name founded in 1881 in Aguilar de Campoo by Eugenio Fontaneda, which led Spain’s María biscuit market by 1927, gave Spain the jingle “Qué buenas son, las galletas Fontaneda,” passed to Nabisco in 1996 and now belongs to Mondelēz.
- Carbonell — The olive oil house founded in Córdoba in 1866 by Antonio Carbonell, whose gitana poster dates from 1904, whose Mezquita bottle echoes the arches of Córdoba’s Mosque, and which passed with Koipe to Grupo SOS in 2001, now Deoleo.
- Hojiblanca — The extra-virgin olive-oil brand of the Antequera cooperative of the same name, which Deoleo agreed to buy with the co-op’s Antequera plant in October 2012, and which was renamed Maestros de Hojiblanca in 2017 with an opaque bottle and an olive-grove label.
- Galbani — The Italian cheese brand founded by Egidio Galbani at Ballabio in 1882, which launched Bel Paese in 1906 with a map of Italy on the label, grew at Melzo, wore a red oval and the slogan “Galbani vuol dire fiducia,” and has belonged to France’s Lactalis since 2006.
- Star — The Italian food company founded by Regolo Fossati at Muggiò in 1948 and named after his wife Stella, whose “Doppio Brodo” stock cube, Gran Ragù sauce and teas came from Agrate Brianza, and which joined Spain’s Gallina Blanca group, now GBfoods, from 2006–07.
- Ponti — The family vinegar maker of Ghemme, near Novara, which dates its trade to 1787 in Sizzano, opened its Ghemme plant in 1948, launched Peperlizia peppers in 1983, added balsamic with Modenaceti in 1991 and is now run by the ninth generation.
- Bauli — The Verona bakery founded in 1922 by the pastry cook Ruggero Bauli, which went industrial in the 1950s, bought Doria in 2006 and the Motta and Alemagna bakery brands from Nestlé in 2009, and is still run by the family from Castel d’Azzano.
German and French food
Dr. Oetker, Hengstenberg, Leibniz, Kühne, Seitenbacher, Bonduelle and Lesieur.
- Dr. Oetker — The Bielefeld food brand begun in 1891 by the pharmacist August Oetker with Backin baking powder, sold under the red-and-white “Hellkopf” mark, owned by the Oetker family through Dr. August Oetker KG and known today for pudding, baking mixes and frozen pizza.
- Hengstenberg — The Esslingen pickles and vinegar maker founded in 1876 when Richard Alfried Hengstenberg bought into a small vinegar factory, which swapped its family coat of arms for lettering in 1926 and built the Altmeister, Mildessa and Rotessa brands.
- Leibniz — Bahlsen’s Hanover butter biscuit, named in 1891 after the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, with 52 “teeth” around its edge, sold from 1904 in the TET pack, and remembered for the gilded biscuit stolen from the company’s facade in 2013.
- Kühne — The Carl Kühne vinegar business founded in Berlin in 1722 by Johann Daniel Epinius and run by the Kühne family since 1761, a royal court supplier from 1876, now based in Hamburg, which says it put the first ready-to-serve red cabbage on the German market in 1957.
- Seitenbacher — The muesli and natural-food maker founded in 1980 by the trained miller Willi Pfannenschwarz in Waldenbuch, named after a stream there, which moved to Buchen in the Odenwald and became known across Germany for radio spots its founder voices himself in Swabian dialect.
- Bonduelle — The French vegetable group that began as a grain and juniper distillery near Lille in 1853, canned its first peas at Renescure in 1926, put its own name on its cans in 1947 and, still controlled by the Bonduelle families, is listed in Paris.
- Lesieur — The cooking-oil maker founded in 1908 by Georges Lesieur at Coudekerque-Branche, near Dunkirk, whose four red lozenges date from 1910, which sold oil in branded glass bottles from 1924 and has belonged to the farmer-backed Sofiprotéol group, now Avril, since 2003.
French food
Herta, Fleury Michon, Banania, Tipiak, Cassegrain, Saupiquet and Bjorg.
- Herta — The charcuterie brand that began as a butcher’s shop in Herten, Germany, in 1897, took the Herta name in 1947, came to France in the 1960s, launched Knacki in 1975, was bought by Nestlé in stages to 1986 and is now majority-owned by Spain’s Casa Tarradellas.
- Fleury Michon — The Vendée food company formed in 1905 by Félix Fleury and his brother-in-law Lucien Michon, based in Pouzauges since 1934, which moved from pork trading to pre-packed ham, fresh ready meals and surimi, and is still family-controlled.
- Banania — The French banana-and-cocoa breakfast powder registered in 1914 by Pierre-François Lardet, whose tirailleur mascot and “Y’a bon” slogan drew decades of criticism, and which passed from Clin-Midy and Unilever to the French holding Nutrial in 2003.
- Tipiak — The French grocery brand formed in 1967 when the Paris house of Groult (1830) and the Nantes house of Billard (1879) joined forces over tapioca, known for couscous, croutons and its Bigouden “pirates” ads, and majority-owned by the Terrena cooperative since June 2024.
- Cassegrain — The canned-vegetable brand founded near Nantes in 1856 by the charcutier Charles Cassegrain, whose cans carried Eugène Ogé’s Bretonne Mélanie until 1959 and a white rabbit from 1970, which Saupiquet bought in 1966 and Bonduelle in 1989.
- Saupiquet — The canned-fish brand Arsène Saupiquet began in Nantes in 1877 and incorporated in 1891, whose key-opened Jockey-Club sardine tin became an industry standard, which absorbed Cassegrain in 1966 and has belonged to Italy’s Bolton group since 2000.
- Bjorg — The organic food brand launched in 1988 by Distriborg, the Saint-Genis-Laval distributor Régis Pelen founded in 1970, which became part of Wessanen in 2000 and is now run by Bjorg et Compagnie within Ecotone, the renamed Wessanen owned by PAI Partners and Charles Jobson.
Nordic food and dairy
Kalles Kaviar, Felix, Estrella, Valio, Arla, Stabburet and Nidar.
- Kalles Kaviar — The Swedish smoked cod-roe spread in a tube, launched by Abba in 1954 with a drawing of the chief executive’s six-year-old son Carl Ameln on the pack, sold simply as Kalles since 2015 and owned today by Orkla Foods Sverige.
- Felix — The Swedish food brand built in Eslöv from 1939 by Herbert Felix, a refugee from a Znaim pickling family, which launched its ketchup in a squeeze bottle in 1956, has used white capitals on red since 1955, and is now an Orkla Foods Sverige brand.
- Estrella — The Swedish snack brand registered in 1946 by banana importer Folke Andersson, which began making crisps in Alingsås in 1957, passed to Marabou in 1965, Kraft, Herkules in 2008 and Intersnack in 2014, and is made in Angered outside Gothenburg.
- Valio — The Finnish dairy founded in 1905 by 17 cooperative dairies as the Butter Export Cooperative Valio, home of Nobel laureate A. I. Virtanen’s laboratory, maker of Hyla and the first lactose-free milk drink, owner of the US Finlandia brand, and still owned by Finnish dairy cooperatives.
- Arla — The farmer-owned dairy co-operative formed in April 2000 when Sweden’s Arla merged with Denmark’s MD Foods, whose name reaches back to an 1881 dairy at Stora Arla Gård, which owns Lurpak and Castello, and which merged with Germany’s DMK in June 2026.
- Stabburet — The Norwegian food brand that began as Gunnar Nilsen’s Fredrikstad delicatessen in 1936, started factory production in 1943, launched its liver pâté in 1949 and Stabbur-Makrell in 1958, and has belonged to Orkla since the 1980s, alongside Pizza Grandiosa.
- Nidar — The Trondheim confectioner founded in 1912 by Emil Nilsen and Hans Bell, which made Stratos from 1936, Laban from 1965, Bamsemums from 1975 and Smash! from 1988, merged with Bergene in 1980, passed to Nora Industrier in 1987 and is now part of Orkla.
Central and Eastern European food
Prince Polo, Tymbark, Hortex, Pick, Podravka, Vegeta and Kofola.
- Prince Polo — The chocolate-covered wafer bar that Olza of Cieszyn, Poland, introduced in 1955, which sells as Siesta and Ekstra-55 in other markets and as Prins Póló in Iceland, and which has belonged to Kraft and now Mondelēz International since Olza was bought in 1993.
- Tymbark — The Polish juice brand named after the village of Tymbark, where a fruit growers’ cooperative began work in the mid-1930s, which was nationalised in 1950, became part of Maspex of Wadowice in 1999 and is known for the printed messages under its bottle caps.
- Hortex — The Polish brand founded in 1958 as a state foreign-trade enterprise whose name joins hortus (garden) and export, which built freezing plants from 1966, passed through banks and Argan Capital after 1989, and has been owned by the private equity firm MidEuropa since January 2018.
- Pick — The Szeged salami maker founded by the produce trader Márk Pick in 1869, whose mould-coated winter salami won medals at Paris and Brussels, was nationalised in 1948, merged with Délhús in 2006 and has belonged to the Bonafarm Group since 2009.
- Podravka — The Koprivnica food company formed in 1947 from the Wolf brothers’ fruit workshop of 1934, maker of Vegeta and soups, privatised in 1993, listed in Zagreb since 1998, with a heart in its sign and red on white as its dominant colour.
- Vegeta — The Podravka seasoning developed in Koprivnica by a team led by Zlata Bartl, sold as Vegeta 40 from 1959, renamed in 1971, promoted by a long-running TV cookery show, repackaged in 1994 and now made in Croatia and abroad.
- Kofola — The Czechoslovak cola launched in 1960 from the herbal KOFO syrup developed under Zdeněk Blažek, made in Opava by Galena, revived from 1993 by the Samaras family’s Krnov soft-drink firm, and now the flagship of Kofola ČeskoSlovensko in Ostrava.
Greek and Portuguese food
Compal, Delta Cafés, Pavlides, Misko, Loux, Fage and Kyknos.
- Compal — The Portuguese food company founded in 1952 as a tomato canner, which built its Almeirim factory in 1964, grew into juices and nectars, and since 1 January 2009 has been part of Sumol+Compal, headquartered in Carnaxide.
- Delta Cafés — The coffee roaster Rui Nabeiro founded in 1961 in a small warehouse in Campo Maior, on Portugal’s border with Spain, which built its Novadelta plant in the 1980s, launched Delta Q capsules in 2007 and still belongs to the family’s Grupo Nabeiro.
- Pavlides — The Athens confectioner founded in 1841 by Spyridon Pavlides, which Greek Wikipedia credits with the first Greek chocolate, moved its works to Kato Petralona in 1876, created the Lacta bar in 1962 and was sold to Kraft Foods in 1991.
- MISKO — The Greek pasta brand founded in Piraeus in 1927, bought in 1953 by Lefteris Mantzikas and partners and moved to Patras, famous for the monk Akakios advertising and early packaged pasta, and owned by Italy’s Barilla since the early 1990s, with a plant in Boeotia.
- Loux — The Patras soft-drink maker founded in 1950 by Panagiotis Marlafekas, named from a list drawn up by a Patras composer, moved to the springs of Kefalovryso, launched Loux Cola in 1987 and is still run by the Marlafekas family.
- Fage — The Athens dairy opened by the Filippou family in 1926, whose name means “eat!” and spells Filippou Brothers Dairy, which launched Total strained yoghurt in 1975, took it to Britain in 1983, began making it in New York state and moved its head office to Luxembourg in 2012.
- Kyknos — The Greek canning company whose name means swan, formally founded in Nafplio on 1 April 1915 after the Manoussakis brothers canned their first tomatoes at Asini in 1911, which moved production to Savalia near ancient Olympia in 2002–2003 and makes tomato paste, sauces and ketchup.
Danish, Swedish and Dutch food
Toms, Kelsen, Göteborgs Kex, Polarbröd, HAK, De Ruijter and Venz.
- Toms — The Danish confectioner founded in Copenhagen in 1924 by the pharmacists Hans Trojel and Victor Hans Meyer, bought by Victor B. Strand in 1942, owned by his foundation, making chocolate in an Arne Jacobsen factory in Ballerup since 1962 and moving it to Poland.
- Kelsen — The Danish butter-cookie company founded in Nørre Snede in 1933 by Marinus and Anna Kjeldsen, sold out of the family in 1970, owned by Campbell from 2013 and by Ferrero-affiliated CTH Invest from 2019, which bakes Kjeldsens and Royal Dansk in Nørre Snede and Ribe.
- Göteborgs Kex — The Swedish biscuit maker founded in Kungälv in 1888 by the Gothenburg merchant Carl Leopold Berggren with Glasgow baker Robert Cruickshank, maker of Ballerina and Singoalla, sold to Marabou in 1979 and Orkla in 1994, whose production moved to Riga, Latvia, in 2022.
- Polarbröd — The family bakery of Älvsbyn in Swedish Norrbotten, whose baking roots go back to Johan Nilsson in the late 1870s, which Gösta and Greta Nilsson turned into Polarbageriet in 1972 to bake the soft Polarkaka, and whose main bakery burned in August 2020 and reopened in May 2022.
- HAK — The Dutch vegetable and pulse brand from Giessen, where the Hak family started a glass-jar cannery in 1952, which passed through CSM, Heinz and NPM Capital, ran TV ads with Martine Bijl, and is now part of Neerlands Glorie Groente & Fruit under Flexway.
- De Ruijter — The Dutch maker of muisjes, vruchtenhagel and chocolate hagelslag founded in Baarn in 1860 by the pastry baker Cornelis Rutger de Ruijter, a royal warrant holder, owned by CSM from 1983 and by Heinz, now Kraft Heinz, since the early 2000s.
- Venz — The chocolate hagelslag brand that began as Hendrik de Vries’s Amsterdam wholesale business in 1890, took its name from “de Vries en Zonen,” made sprinkles in Vaassen from 1936, and passed via Van Nelle and CSM to Heinz in 2000; Kraft Heinz owns it today.
Eastern European food II
Sokołów, Roshen, Krasny Oktyabr, Kotányi, Kraš, Hamé and Bambi.
- Sokołów — The Polish meat brand from Sokołów Podlaski, whose group traces its roots to an 1899 Poznań slaughterhouse, listed in Warsaw in 1993, merged with Farm Food in 2000, and has been wholly owned by Danish Crown since 2014, with eight plants in Poland.
- Roshen — The Kyiv confectionery group formed in 1996 by Petro Poroshenko’s Ukrprominvest, named in 2002 by trimming his surname, maker of the 1956 Kyiv cake, whose Lipetsk factory closed in 2017 and whose owner placed his shares in a blind trust in 2016.
- Krasny Oktyabr — The Moscow confectioner founded as Einem by Theodor Ferdinand von Einem in 1851 and run by Julius Heuss, renamed “Red October” in 1922, maker of the Alyonka bar since 1965 and part of the United Confectioners holding since the 2000s.
- Kotányi — The spice maker begun by János Kotányi with a paprika mill in Szeged in 1881 and a Vienna business soon after, court purveyor from 1912, seized from the family in 1938 and restituted in 1948, and based in Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel since 1989.
- Kraš — The Zagreb confectioner that traces its roots to the Union chocolate factory founded in 1911 by Julije König and Slavoljub Deutsch, took Josip Kraš’s name in 1950, makes Bajadera, Dorina and Životinjsko carstvo, and has been majority-owned by the Pivac group since 2019.
- Hamé — The Czech pâté, ketchup and jam brand whose company traces it to a canning workshop in Babice in 1922 and to Brno’s Biochema, which retired its red-bear logo in 2013, joined Norway’s Orkla in 2016 and has been a brand of Orkla Foods Česko a Slovensko since 2020.
- Bambi — The biscuit maker founded in Požarevac, Serbia, in 1967, best known for its Plazma biscuit, which joined Danube Foods in 2004, passed to Mid Europa Partners in 2015 and to Coca-Cola HBC in 2019, and restarted Plazma production after a factory fire in 2024.
Greek, Swiss and French food
Lacta, Allatini, Papadopoulos, Minerva, Zweifel, Ragusa and Francine.
- Lacta — The Greek milk chocolate that English Wikipedia says the Athens confectioner Pavlides created in 1962, which passed to Kraft and so to Mondelēz International, and whose marketing has long been built on love stories, including a crowdsourced film shown on Greek television in 2010.
- Allatini — The Thessaloniki milling name that Greek Wikipedia dates to 1858 and the Allatini family from Livorno, whose Poselli-designed mill of 1900 still stands, and whose brand for biscuits and packaged flour passed to the company now called ELBISCO.
- Papadopoulos — The Greek biscuit maker whose family arrived at Piraeus from Istanbul in 1922 and began baking Petit-Beurre in Athens, opened its first factory in 1938, adopted its red “Π” logo with four children in 1972 and launched Caprice wafer rolls in 1978.
- Minerva — The Greek food company that traces its roots to an 1887 Athens and Piraeus trading house, sold olive oil under the Minerva name from the early 1900s, was backed by Paterson Zochonis from 1977, built a plant at Schimatari and bought Pummaro, Altis and Flora.
- Zweifel — The Swiss crisp brand launched in 1958 by a Zurich-Höngg cider and wine family, which began with a cousin frying chips on his farm, sent fresh chips round the country in VW vans from 1962, added paprika chips in 1964 and has made them at Spreitenbach since 1970.
- Ragusa — The Swiss praliné bar with whole hazelnuts created in 1942 by Camille Bloch, when wartime shortages limited cocoa, named after the old name of Dubrovnik and made by the Bloch family firm in Courtelary in the Bernese Jura, now run by the founder’s grandsons.
- Francine — The French flour brand launched in 1965 by a group of eight regional millers, its name a blend of “France” and “farine”, known for fluid flour and crêpe batter mixes, and owned since 2012 by Grands Moulins de Paris, part of the Vivescia cooperative group.
Serbian food and drink
Jaffa, Takovo, Štark, Swisslion, Knjaz Miloš, Imlek and Zlatiborac.
- Jaffa — The confectionery maker of Crvenka, in Serbia’s Vojvodina, founded in 1975, which has baked Jaffa cakes under a licence from McVitie’s since 1976, added Munchmallow in 1981 and later the O’cake biscuits, Tak crackers and Napolitanke wafers.
- Takovo — The Gornji Milanovac food company that grew from a wartime confectioner’s shop into the PIK Takovo combine, made Eurokrem under licence from Italy’s Gandola from the early 1970s, was bought by Swisslion in 2004 and still sells juices, ratluk, soups and brandies under its name.
- Štark — The Belgrade confectioner that grew from a French-run chocolate factory opened in Zemun in the 1920s, was renamed Nada Štark on nationalisation in 1946, launched Smoki in 1972 and has been part of Croatia’s Atlantic Grupa since 2010.
- Swisslion — The Serbian food group that opened its first factory in Vršac in 1997, bought PIK Takovo of Gornji Milanovac and its Eurokrem spread in 2004, and now makes confectionery, baby food, drinks and wine in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia as Swisslion-Takovo.
- Knjaz Miloš — The sparkling mineral water of Aranđelovac and the Bukovička Banja springs, named after Prince Miloš Obrenović, whose 1907 spring pavilion has been pictured on its label, maker of Pepsi under licence from 1965 and, the company says, wholly owned by Mattoni 1873 since 2024.
- Imlek — The Belgrade dairy that began in 1953 at the Lepušnica farm in Glogonjski Rit within the PKB agricultural combine, absorbed the city dairy in 1972, passed to Salford, Danube Foods and in 2015 Mid Europa Partners, and sells Moja Kravica, Jogood and Balans+.
- Zlatiborac — The dried and smoked meat maker from Mačkat on Zlatibor, Serbia, set up in the early 1990s by the Stojanović family, who date their meat-drying tradition to 1885; known for beef pršuta, beech-wood smoking and DLG medals, with exports from 2006.
Croatian food and drink
Dukat, Vindija, Zvečevo, Franck, Cedevita, Jamnica and Ledo.
- Dukat — The Zagreb dairy brand that grew from the Gradska mljekara city dairy of 1912, took the Dukat name around 1969–72, was privatised into the Lura group in the 1990s and joined France’s Lactalis in 2007 as its hub for south-east Europe.
- Vindija — The Varaždin food group that began as the town’s dairy in 1959, took its name in 1970 from the nearby Vindija Cave, launched the ’z bregov milk brand in 1977 and grew under Dragutin Drk, its director from 1965, into a dairy, poultry, juice and bakery group.
- Zvečevo — The Požega confectioner that began in 1921 as a spirits factory called Stock Cognac Medicinal, worked with Nestlé from the 1930s, took the Zvečevo name in 1951, made the Mikado rice chocolate in the 1960s and changed majority owner in 2024.
- Franck — The Zagreb coffee and tea company that began in 1892 as the chicory branch of the German firm Heinrich Franck Söhne, was nationalised in 1945, launched its red “ciglica” Jubilarna coffee in 1972, was privatised in 1992 and still has its seat on the original site.
- Cedevita — The Zagreb instant drink created in 1969 within the pharmaceutical company Pliva, first sold in glass bottles in pharmacies, sold by Pliva in July 2001 and owned since then by Atlantic Grupa, whose name also reached a basketball club.
- Jamnica — The mineral water from Jamnička Kiselica in Pisarovina, analysed for Maria Theresa in 1772 and first bottled for sale on 18 October 1828, later owned by Badel and Agrokor, relabelled in 1995 and part of Fortenova Group since 2019.
- Ledo — The Zagreb ice-cream and frozen-food maker that began in 1958 inside the city dairy with a stick ice cream called Snjeguljica, took its name from a 1965 factory, adopted the Ledo Medo bear in 1964, and has belonged to Nomad Foods since 2021.
Latvian and Estonian food and drink
Laima, Selga, Spilva, Rīgas Balzams, Aldaris, Saku and A. Le Coq.
- Laima — The Riga confectioner that traces its roots to Theodor Riegert’s 1870 factory, took the Laima name in 1925, gave its name to the Laima Clock, joined Norway’s Orkla in 2014–2015 and adopted a red-circle logo in 2016.
- Selga — The Latvian biscuit first baked in 1956 at Riga’s “17. jūnijs” factory, the former Ķuze works that became Staburadze, now an Orkla Latvija brand made at the Ādaži biscuit and wafer plant opened in 2023.
- Spilva — The Latvian sauce, ketchup, mayonnaise and pickle brand that began in 1992 as a small canning workshop in Spilve, Babīte, was bought by Norway’s Orkla in 2004, gave its name to Orkla Foods Latvija in 2015 and now sits inside Orkla Latvija, with a plant expansion under way.
- Riga Black Balsam — The Latvian herbal liqueur traced to a recipe by the Riga apothecary Abraham Kunze in 1752, made strong and black by Semyon Leluchin from 1789, lost in 1939 and rebuilt in 1950, sold in ceramic bottles since 1969 and made today by Amber Latvijas balzams, part of Amber Beverage Group.
- Aldaris — The Riga brewery that began in 1865 as Waldschlößchen, built by Jānis Daude, took the name Aldaris (“brewer”) from a public poll in 1937, kept it through the Soviet era and has been wholly owned by Carlsberg since 2008.
- Saku — The Estonian brewery founded in 1820 at Saku Manor by Count Karl Friedrich von Rehbinder, rebuilt by the Baggo family, which launched its blue-labelled Saku Originaal in 1993 and has been wholly owned by Carlsberg since 2008.
- A. Le Coq — The Tartu brewery that grew from the Hesse (1800) and Schramm (1826) breweries, took the name of the London-based Imperial Stout exporter A. Le Coq in 1913, became Tartu Õlletehas in the Soviet era and has belonged to Finland’s Olvi since 1997.
Ukrainian and Lithuanian food and drink
Konti, Svitoch, Nemiroff, Morshynska, Obolon, Švyturys and Rokiškio.
- Konti — The Ukrainian confectioner founded in October 1997 as Kyiv-Konti around the Kostiantynivka confectionery factory, which launched Super KONTIK biscuits and Jack sweets in 2001 and the Bonjour dessert in 2005, and moved its biscuit logo from Cyrillic to Latin letters in 2018.
- Svitoch — The Lviv confectionery factory formed in 1962 from older Lviv sweet makers whose history it traces to 1882, maker of Artek wafers since about 1959, bought by Nestlé in 1998 and later turned into a regional production centre for chocolate and Nescafé.
- Nemiroff — The vodka brand from Nemyriv in Ukraine’s Vinnytsia region, which traces its distilling to 1872, registered its trademark in 1992, began exporting in 1994, and redesigned its bottle with a winged logo in 2018.
- Morshynska — The Ukrainian mineral water bottled since 1995 at the Oskar plant in Morshyn, a Carpathian-foothills spa town in Lviv Oblast, made by IDS Ukraine and sold in still and sparkling bottles from 0.33 to 6 litres.
- Obolon — The Kyiv brewer whose plant in the Obolon district opened in 1980, timed for the Summer Olympics, was leased and then bought by its workforce under Oleksandr Slobodian, and in 1992 became the first privatised company of independent Ukraine.
- Švyturys — The Klaipėda brewery founded in 1784 by the merchant J. W. Reincke, whose emblem keeps his family’s sea eagle, rebuilt and renamed “lighthouse” after the war, maker of Baltijos and Ekstra, and owned by Carlsberg since 1999.
- Rokiškio — The dairy brand of AB Rokiškio sūris, whose Soviet-era cheese plant in Rokiškis, Lithuania, was begun in 1964 and opened in 1966, was privatised from 1991, became a public company in 1992 and now makes cheese in Rokiškis and fresh dairy in Utena.
Polish food and drink
Goplana, Mlekovita, Łowicz, Krakus, Żywiec, Kubuś and Winiary.
- Goplana — The Poznań chocolate maker founded in 1911 as Luna and renamed Goplana in 1913, nationalised in 1946, owned by Nestlé before Jutrzenka (now Colian) bought the factory and brand in 2004, and whose old Jeżyce works became a housing estate.
- Mlekovita — The dairy cooperative of Wysokie Mazowieckie in Podlasie, whose plant dates from 1928, which took the Mlekovita name and logo in 1992, and which grew by joining with regional dairy co-ops into one of Poland’s largest dairy groups.
- Łowicz — The Polish jam, tomato and sauce brand named after the town where its processing plant opened in the 1960s, built up by Agros in the 1990s and 2000s, owned by IK Investment Partners from 2010 and part of Grupa Maspex of Wadowice since 2015.
- Krakus — The canned-ham brand Animex registered as a US trademark in 1951, a Cold War export and a Pewex luxury at home, owned with Animex by Smithfield since 1999 and WH Group since 2013, plus the separate Krakus pickles and soups now made by Maspex.
- Żywiec — The beer from the brewery founded in Żywiec in 1856 on the initiative of Archduke Albrecht Habsburg, known for its label of a couple dancing in Kraków folk costume, drawn for US export in the 1950s, and part of Heineken’s Grupa Żywiec today.
- Kubuś — The children’s purée juice first made in 1994 at the former Jagódka plant in Olsztynek, part of Maspex since 1995, sold abroad as Kubik, Kubu and Tedi, and now a range of juices, drinks, mousses and flavoured water.
- Winiary — The soup, sauce and mayonnaise brand from the Winiary district of Kalisz, a factory founded in 1941 by Alfred Nowacki, nationalised after the war, maker of Majonez Dekoracyjny since 1974, and part of Nestlé since 1995.
Czech and Slovak food and drink
Opavia, Budvar, Kozel, Mattoni, Horalky, Figaro and Zlatý Bažant.
- Opavia — The Czech wafer and biscuit brand behind Tatranky, Zlaté and Fidorka, which dates itself to the Fiedor family’s Opava wafer business of 1840, took its name from a state bakery works in 1958, and passed from Danone to Kraft Foods in 2007 and Mondelēz in 2012.
- Budvar — Budějovický Budvar, the state-owned brewery of České Budějovice founded in 1895 as the Czech Joint-Stock Brewery, which registered the Budvar name in 1930, dates its label design to 1959, redesigned its packs in 2014 and sells as Czechvar in the US.
- Kozel — Velkopopovický Kozel, the beer first brewed in 1874 at the Ringhoffer brewery in Velké Popovice near Prague, whose goat emblem was registered as a trademark in 1922, which joined Plzeňský Prazdroj under SAB in 1999 and has belonged to Asahi since 2017.
- Mattoni — The mineral water of Kyselka near Karlovy Vary, built by Heinrich Mattoni, who leased the spring in 1867 and founded his company in 1873, with a red eagle on its label; nationalised in 1945, privatised to the Pasquale family in 1994 and renamed Mattoni 1873 in 2019.
- Horalky — The Slovak peanut-cream wafer that Sedita says was first sold under the name in 1965, baked at the Pečivárne Sereď plant, packed in red, blue and white with mountain flowers and a Tatra peak, and owned since January 2025 by Valeo Foods through I.D.C. Holding.
- Figaro — The Slovak chocolate brand whose name comes from an early-20th-century Trnava confectionery works, given in 1958 to the former Stollwerck factory in Bratislava, privatised to Jacobs Suchard in 1992 and sold today by Mondelēz under the line “Figaro ťa odmení!”
- Zlatý Bažant — The “Golden Pheasant” lager of Hurbanovo in southern Slovakia, brewed since the town’s brewery and malthouse were completed in 1967–1969, canned from 1971, bought by Heineken in 1995 and sold in the US and Canada as Golden Pheasant.
Hungarian food and drink
Szamos, Tibi, Sport, Dreher, Borsodi, Unicum and Pöttyös.
- Szamos — The Hungarian family confectioner that dates its start to the 1930s, when Mátyás Szamos learnt to shape marzipan roses, and that now runs cafés, a chocolate museum on Kossuth tér and a marzipan workshop in Szentendre.
- Tibi — The Hungarian chocolate bar launched in 1941 by Budapest’s Stühmer factory and named after the founder’s grandson, passed through state ownership, Stollwerck and Bonbonetti, and now sold by Bonbonetti within Ukraine’s Roshen group.
- Sport — The rum-flavoured Hungarian chocolate bar first made for the opening of Budapest’s Népstadion on 20 August 1953, wrapped for decades in green paper and foil with a discus thrower, bought into Kraft Jacobs Suchard in 1993 and made today by Mondelēz Hungária.
- Dreher — The Budapest brewery in Kőbánya that dates itself to Péter Schmidt’s 1854 brewing company, bought in 1862 by the Viennese lager pioneer Anton Dreher, nationalised in 1948, revived as a beer in 1988, owned by South African Breweries from 1993 and by Japan’s Asahi since 2017.
- Borsodi — The lager brewed since 1973 at Bőcs, near Miskolc in north-eastern Hungary, which was privatised to Interbrew in 1991, passed to CVC’s StarBev in 2009 and to Molson Coors in 2012, and moved from beige and brown to metallic green, a rearing horse and a new bottle in 2016.
- Unicum — The Zwack family’s herbal bitter liqueur, trade-marked in 1883 in its round bottle, advertised with Viktor Pachl’s drenched-man poster, nationalised in 1948, made in exile and bought back from 1989, and still produced in Budapest by Zwack Unicum, part-owned by Diageo.
- Pöttyös — The polka-dotted brand of Túró Rudi, the cocoa-coated curd bar Hungary has made since 1968, developed in a Budapest dairy after a 1954 study trip to the USSR, named by Sándor Klein, made in Mátészalka and now owned by FrieslandCampina Hungária.
Romanian and Bulgarian food and drink
Ursus, Timișoreana, Borsec, Dorna, Napolact, ROM and Zagorka.
- Ursus — The Romanian lager named in Cluj in 1924, whose bear the brewer dates to 1878, which passed from the Czell family to the state in 1948, to South African Breweries in 1997 and to Asahi in 2017, and is now the flagship of Ursus Breweries.
- Timișoreana — The lager from the Timișoara brewery founded in 1718 under Prince Eugene of Savoy’s administration, rebuilt after an 1890 fire, nationalised in 1948, bought into SABMiller’s Ursus in 2001 and owned by Asahi since 2017.
- Borsec — The mineral water of Borsec in Harghita County, Romania, bottled industrially since 1806, given the title “Queen of Mineral Waters” at the 1873 Vienna World Exhibition, nationalised under Apemin in 1952 and owned since the late 1990s by the Romanian drinks group Romaqua.
- Dorna — The Romanian brand Jean Valvis built in the 1990s around mineral water from the Vatra Dornei area and later dairy, whose waters went to Coca-Cola Hellenic and The Coca-Cola Company in 2002 and whose dairy business went to Lactalis in 2008.
- Napolact — The Transylvanian dairy brand of Cluj, named Napolact in 1990, which traces its roots to a butter-and-cheese workshop and the 1948 Cluj state dairy, came under Dutch ownership in 2004 and is now made by FrieslandCampina Romania in Cluj-Napoca and Târgu Mureș.
- ROM — The Romanian rum-flavoured chocolate bar created in 1964, wrapped in the colours of the Romanian flag and engraved with “București,” now made by Bucharest’s Kandia Dulce, and known for McCann Erickson’s 2010 “American ROM” campaign, which swapped the flag on the pack.
- Zagorka — The Stara Zagora beer whose brewery traces its roots to a 1902 firm founded with a Prague-trained doctor, which took the Zagorka name under state ownership, became Bulgaria’s first privatised brewing company in 1994 and now names Heineken International as its majority shareholder.
Austrian food and drink
Almdudler, Römerquelle, Vöslauer, Pago, Ottakringer, Stiegl and Kelly’s.
- Almdudler — The Viennese herbal lemonade first bottled in October 1957 by Erwin Klein’s family firm A. & S. Klein, sold through licensed bottlers since 1973, still owned by the Klein family and known for its shaped bottle and the couple in traditional dress on its label.
- Römerquelle — The mineral water bottled at Edelstal in Burgenland since 1948, marketed nationally from 1965, advertised for decades with the line “Römerquelle belebt die Sinne,” and part of Coca-Cola HBC Austria since 2003.
- Vöslauer — The mineral water from the thermal spring of Bad Vöslau in Lower Austria, bottled since 1909, run since 1936 by a company founded by the Zentralsparkasse, part of the Ottakringer group since 2010, and known for Hundertwasser labels and recycled PET.
- Pago — The fruit juice brand founded in Klagenfurt in 1888 by the Pagitz brothers, named in 1949 from Pagitz and Obst, owned by the Brau Union from 1977–79, known since 1989 for its green glass bottle with yellow cap and red script, and part of Eckes-Granini since 2013.
- Ottakringer — The brewery in Vienna’s 16th district, licensed to the miller Heinrich Plank in 1837, built up by the Kuffner family from 1850, sold to Gustav Harmer in 1938 now owned by Austrian families via Ottakringer Getränke AG, home of the green shoulder bottle and the “16er Blech.”
- Stiegl — The Salzburg brewery first recorded in a deed of 1492 and named after a small stair by the Almkanal, moved to Maxglan in 1863, run by the Kiener family since the late 1880s, whose Goldbräu name was registered in 1912 and which calls itself Austria’s largest private brewery.
- Kelly’s — Kelly’s identity: the Vienna snack brand that began in 1955 as the American Popcorn Company, set up by US Major Howard Morse Kelly and Herbert Rast, passed through Bahlsen and the v. Nordeck group, and has belonged to Germany’s Intersnack since 2007–2008.
Austrian and Swiss food and drink
Zipfer, Gösser, Inzersdorfer, Rivella, Emmi, Kägi and Rauch.
- Zipfer — The beer brewed since 1858 at Zipf in Upper Austria, where the Viennese banker Franz Schaup bought a small brewery at auction, known for Urtyp and hops from the Mühlviertel, merged into Österreichische Brau AG in 1970 and part of Heineken’s Brau Union Österreich since 2003.
- Gösser — The beer of the Göss brewery in Leoben, Styria, where abbey brewing is recorded in 1459 and Max Kober revived the brewery in 1860; served at the 1955 State Treaty dinner, merged into what became Brau Union, owned by Heineken since 2003, with the slogan “Gut. Besser. Gösser.”
- Inzersdorfer — The Austrian ready-meal, soup and spread brand that began as a military canning factory at Inzersdorf, Vienna, in 1873, was rebuilt by the Voith and Pecher families after 1945, and has belonged to Vivatis of Linz since 2003.
- Rivella — The carbonated Swiss soft drink made with milk serum from whey, launched in 1952 by law student Robert Barth in Stäfa, made in Rothrist since 1954, still family-owned, colour-coded red, blue and green, and long tied to the Swiss ski team.
- Emmi — The Lucerne dairy group that grew from a 1907 association of 62 farmers’ cooperatives, first used the word mark Emmi in 1947 after the town of Emmen, became Emmi AG in 1993, listed in 2004 and launched Caffè Latte the same year.
- Kägi — The Lichtensteig wafer and chocolate maker founded in 1934 by the baker Otto Kägi in the Toggenburg, known for the chocolate-coated Kägi fret, sold by the family to Valora in 1996 and owned by investors since, and still made in Lichtensteig.
- Rauch — The Vorarlberg family juice maker that began when Franz Josef Rauch bought a village cider mill in Rankweil in 1919, grew with Austria’s supermarket chains, made Happy Day and Bravo household names, and fills most of Red Bull’s cans at Nüziders and Widnau.
Swiss and Norwegian food and drink
Villars, Maestrani, Ramseier, Appenzeller Alpenbitter, Elmer Citro, Ringnes and Tine.
- Villars — The Fribourg chocolate maker founded in 1901 by Wilhelm Kaiser on the Pérolles plateau, named Villars SA in 1904, known for the Villars cow drawn by Martin Peikert and its liqueur-filled bars, and owned since 1995 by the group now called Savencia.
- Maestrani — The chocolate maker founded in Lucerne in 1852 by the Ticinese chocolatier Aquilino Maestrani, based in St. Gallen from 1859, which launched Minor in 1936, took over Munz of Flawil in the late 1990s and now makes its chocolate in Flawil.
- Ramseier — The Swiss apple juice and cider brand named after Ramsei in the Emmental, where a fruit-wine cooperative was founded in 1910, which became part of Pomdor in 1977 and of Unidrink in 2005, and is now made by the fenaco-owned Ramseier Suisse AG of Oberkirch, owner of Sinalco in Switzerland and Elmer Citro.
- Appenzeller Alpenbitter — The Appenzell herbal liqueur first made by Emil Ebneter in 1902, run with his brother-in-law Beat Kölbener from 1908, still owned by the two families, whose recipe of 42 herbs and spices is known to two keepers and whose label shows the Aescher inn and the Seealpsee.
- Elmer Citro — The Swiss lemon soda created in 1927 by Oskar Schärli, owner of the spa hotel in Elm, canton Glarus, made with the village’s mineral water, promoted by the Elmer Girls vote of the 1960s, and owned since 1999 by the fenaco company now called Ramseier Suisse.
- Ringnes — The Oslo brewery founded in 1876 by the brothers Amund and Ellef Ringnes with Axel Heiberg, which first brewed on Grünerløkka in 1877, backed Nansen’s and Sverdrup’s Fram voyages, passed through Nora and Orkla, and has been wholly owned by Carlsberg since 2004.
- Tine — The Norwegian dairy co-operative owned by its milk farmers, a business since 1928 that adopted its wooden-box logo in 1973 and the Tine name in 1992, and owns Jarlsberg, now made in Norway, Ireland and Ohio, as well as brunost, Snøfrisk and Diplom-Is.
Finnish and Norwegian food and drink
Hartwall, Koff, Mills, Solo, Olvi, Lapin Kulta and Atria.
- Hartwall — The Helsinki drinks company that dates itself to a Senate licence of 1836 granted to Victor Hartwall, launched Jaffa in 1949 and the Olympic Gin Long Drink in 1952, and has belonged to Denmark’s Royal Unibrew since 2013.
- Koff — The beer brand launched in 1957 by Sinebrychoff, the Helsinki brewery founded by Nikolai Sinebrychoff in 1819, named from the end of the family name, brewed at Kerava and owned by Carlsberg since the end of 1999.
- Mills — The Oslo food brand of the Heje family’s Agra group, which traces its roots to a margarine works founded on Grünerløkka in 1885, launched Mills mayonnaise in 1951 and Mills caviar in 1952, and makes most of its products in Fredrikstad and Drammen.
- Solo — The Norwegian orange soft drink first bottled at Tønsberg Bryggeri in 1934 from a Spanish recipe brought home by Torleif Gulliksrud, the country’s best-selling soft drink until the 1960s, now bottled by Ringnes, Oskar Sylte and Mack through the joint company A/S Solo.
- Olvi — The brewery founded in Iisalmi, Finland, in 1878, renamed Olvi in 1952, majority-controlled by the Olvi Foundation since 1955, owner of A. Le Coq and other Baltic brewers, and keeper of a barrel emblem redrawn by Marko Salonen in 2003.
- Lapin Kulta — The “Lapland Gold” lager first brewed in Tornio, whose brewery dates from 1873, which put a 1963 Brussels gold medal on its label, joined Hartwall in 1980–81, and has been brewed in Lahti since the Tornio brewery closed in 2010; Hartwall is owned by Royal Unibrew.
- Atria — The Finnish food company whose roots run to a livestock co-operative founded in Kuopio in 1903 and to Itikka of Seinäjoki, whose Atria brand dates from 1963, which became the group name in 1994 and whose logo was redrawn with BrandMe in 2020.
Danish and Swedish food and drink
Tuborg, Faxe Kondi, Cocio, Harboe, Carletti, Festis and Loka.
- Tuborg — The Danish beer brand from a brewery founded at Hellerup harbour in 1873 by Philip W. Heyman and partners, which launched Grøn Tuborg in 1880, built a giant bottle in 1888, merged with Carlsberg in 1970 and is now brewed in Fredericia.
- Faxe Kondi — The lemon-lime soft drink that Faxe Bryggeri launched in 1971 as Koral Kondi with the multi-sport international Knud Lundberg, named by an adman, sold first in beer bottles, made today by Royal Unibrew in Faxe and launched in Sweden in 2026.
- Cocio — The Danish chocolate milk Anker Pallesen and his wife Ella developed in Esbjerg and put into production in 1951, owned by Borden from 1976, back in Danish hands in 1999, and fully owned by Arla Foods since 1 January 2008, still made near Esbjerg.
- Harboe — The brewery founded in Skælskør in 1883 by Jørgen and Adolph Harboe with merchant Jørgen Lotz, maker of beer, soft drinks and malt extract, home of Bear Beer since 1974, listed in Copenhagen since 1989, with a second brewery at Dargun in Germany.
- Carletti — The Danish confectioner founded in Aarhus in 1918 as the wholesaler Brdr. Jakobsen, named Carletti in 1943, maker of Skumbananer and P-tærter since 1953, based at Skødstrup and owned by the Vejle group Givesco since 2006.
- Festis — The Swedish still fruit drink launched as FEST-iS in Gothenburg in April 1961 in a 19 cl Tetra Pak pyramid, made first at Apotekarnes, relaunched in 1994 with a profile bottle, and now owned by Carlsberg Sverige.
- Loka — The Swedish carbonated water drawn at Loka Brunn, the spa in Hällefors municipality opened in 1720, which Spendrups has bottled since 1992, redesigned in 2001, took to the top of the Swedish water market by 2005 and bought the spa itself in 2007.
Swedish, Belgian and Spanish drinks
Pripps, Ramlösa, Jupiler, Estrella Damm, Mahou, Cruzcampo and Kas.
- Pripps — The Gothenburg brewery Johan Albrecht Pripp took over in 1828, whose pentagon mark dates from 1865, whose blue-canned Pripps Export of 1959 became Pripps Blå, and which passed through state, Procordia, Volvo and Orkla ownership before Carlsberg bought it in 2000.
- Ramlösa — The Helsingborg mineral water from the spa Johan Jacob Döbelius opened on 17 June 1707, bottled since 1912, owned in turn by Consol, Volvo and Orkla before joining Carlsberg Sverige, and known for a drop-shaped export bottle remade in PET in 2011.
- Jupiler — The Belgian pils launched in 1966 by the Piedbœuf brewery at Jupille-sur-Meuse, near Liège, named after its village, marked by a bull, sold with “Men know why,” and owned since the Interbrew, InBev and AB InBev mergers by the world’s largest brewer.
- Estrella Damm — The Barcelona lager of S.A. Damm, traced to the brewery the Alsatian August Kuentzmann Damm opened in 1876, sold as Estrella Dorada from 1921 to 1991, marked by a five-pointed star, and advertised with “Mediterráneamente” summer films.
- Mahou — The Madrid brewer founded as Hijos de Casimiro Mahou by the children of a paint maker from Lorraine, brewing from 1891 on Calle Amaniel, which launched Cinco Estrellas in 1969 and bought San Miguel in 2000 to form Mahou San Miguel.
- Cruzcampo — The Seville beer first sold in December 1904 by the Osborne brothers of El Puerto de Santa María, named after the Cruz del Campo shrine, marked by the figure of Gambrinus, bought by Guinness in 1991 and by Heineken in 2000.
- Kas — The Vitoria-Gasteiz orange soft drink the Knörr family launched in the 1950s by putting a K in front of their El As gaseosa, which sponsored a famous cycling team, added Bitter Kas in 1966 and has belonged to PepsiCo since 1992.
Dutch and Irish food and drink
Calvé, Duyvis, Chocomel, Unox, Odlums, Club Orange and Brennans.
- Calvé — The Dutch sauce and peanut-butter brand that grew from the Nederlandsche Oliefabriek founded in Delft in 1883, merged with the French Calvé brothers’ firm in 1898, joined the future Unilever in 1928 and commissioned Jan Toorop’s 1894 Delftsche Slaolie poster.
- Duyvis — The Dutch nuts and snacks brand that traces itself to an oil mill Teewis Duyvis inherited in the Zaan region in 1806, moved from cattle cake and linseed oil to bagged nuts in 1961, passed to Akzo, Sara Lee and, from a deal agreed in 2005, PepsiCo, and owns the Borrelnootjes name.
- Chocomel — The Dutch chocolate milk that began in 1932 as Nutricia’s Melcola, was sold in Belgium from 1949 as Cécémel after a name clash, passed to Friesland Foods in 2001 and FrieslandCampina in 2008, and took the Chocomel name in Belgium in 2026.
- Unox — The Dutch smoked-sausage and soup brand created by Unilever in Oss in 1937 from the Hartog meat business, known for its 1957 canned soup, the Scheveningen New Year’s Dive and the orange hat first seen at the 1997 Elfstedentocht, and agreed for sale to Zwanenberg in 2024.
- Odlums — The Irish flour and oats brand that traces itself to William Odlum’s mill in Maryborough (now Portlaoise) in 1845, stayed family owned until 1988, passed to Origin Enterprises in 2007 and became part of Valeo Foods in 2010, and is known for its owl and cream packs.
- Club Orange — The Irish orange soft drink created by Cantrell & Cochrane and named after Dublin’s Kildare Street Club, sold to Britvic in 2007 and part of the Carlsberg Group since 2025, whose advertising has long centred on the orange “bits.”
- Brennans — The Dublin bread brand Joseph A. Brennan started in a one-room bakery on Fumbally Lane, which moved out to Walkinstown, stayed family owned, built its radio ads around “Old Mr Brennan” and the line “Today’s Bread Today,” and regularly tops Irish brand rankings.
At a glance: who owns the name and where it is made
Taken from each guide’s fact panel, as of October 2026. Ownership and production change; follow the link for sources and detail.
| Brand | Founded | Owner | Where made |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. Le Coq | Tartu, Estonia (1800 (Hesse brewery); A. Le Coq name 1913) | See guide | See guide |
| Aldaris | Riga, Latvia (1865 (as Waldschlößchen); named Aldaris 1937) | See guide | See guide |
| Allatini | Thessaloniki, Greece (1858 (Greek Wikipedia)) | See guide | See guide |
| Almdudler | Vienna, Austria (1957 (family firm A. & S. Klein registered 1910)) | See guide | See guide |
| Appenzeller Alpenbitter | Appenzell, Switzerland (1902) | See guide | See guide |
| Arla | Viby J (Aarhus), Denmark (17 April 2000 (merger); Swedish roots 1881) | See guide | See guide |
| Atria | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Bambi | Požarevac, Serbia (then Yugoslavia) (1967) | See guide | See guide |
| Banania | Paris, France (1914 (name registered 31 August 1914)) | See guide | See guide |
| Bauli | Verona, Italy (1922) | See guide | See guide |
| Bjorg | Saint-Genis-Laval, France (1988 (brand); Distriborg 1970) | See guide | See guide |
| Bonduelle | Marquette-lez-Lille, France (1853 (as a distillery)) | See guide | See guide |
| Borsec | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Borsodi | Bőcs, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary (1973 (construction from 1969)) | See guide | See guide |
| Brennans | Fumbally Lane, Dublin, Ireland (1972) | See guide | See guide |
| Budvar | České Budějovice, Bohemia (1895 (as Český akciový pivovar)) | See guide | See guide |
| Calvo | Carballo, Galicia, Spain (1940) | See guide | See guide |
| Calvé | Delft, the Netherlands (1883 (as the Nederlandsche Oliefabriek); Calvé name from 1898) | See guide | See guide |
| Campofrío | Burgos, Spain (1952) | See guide | See guide |
| Carbonell | Córdoba, Spain (1866) | See guide | See guide |
| Carletti | Aarhus, Denmark (1918 (as Brdr. Jakobsen)) | See guide | See guide |
| Cassegrain | Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, near Nantes, France (1856) | See guide | See guide |
| Cedevita | See guide | Atlantic Grupa, since 2001 | See guide |
| Chocomel | Netherlands (1932 (as Melcola, by the company’s account)) | See guide | See guide |
| Club Orange | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Cocio | Esbjerg, Denmark (1951) | See guide | See guide |
| Cola Cao | Barcelona, Spain (1945 (sold from 1946, sources differ)) | See guide | See guide |
| Compal | Entroncamento, Portugal (1952) | See guide | See guide |
| Cruzcampo | Seville, Spain (1904) | See guide | See guide |
| De Ruijter | Baarn, Netherlands (1860) | See guide | See guide |
| Delta Cafés | Campo Maior, Alentejo, Portugal (1961) | See guide | See guide |
| Dorna | Romania (1994 (Dorna Apemin, per Romanian Wikipedia)) | See guide | See guide |
| Dr. Oetker | Bielefeld, Germany (1891) | See guide | See guide |
| Dreher | Kőbánya, Pest (now Budapest), Hungary (1854 (Kőbányai Serfőző Társaság); Dreher from 1862) | See guide | See guide |
| Dukat | Zagreb, Croatia (1912 (as Gradska mljekara)) | See guide | See guide |
| Duyvis | Zaan region, the Netherlands (1806 (oil mill inherited by Teewis Duyvis)) | See guide | See guide |
| Elmer Citro | Elm, canton Glarus, Switzerland (1927) | See guide | See guide |
| ElPozo | Alhama de Murcia, Spain (1954 (shop from 1936)) | See guide | See guide |
| Emmi | Lucerne, Switzerland (1907 (as the MVL milk association)) | See guide | See guide |
| Estrella | Sweden (1946 (brand); 1957 (crisp production, Alingsås)) | See guide | See guide |
| Estrella Damm | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (1876) | See guide | See guide |
| Fage | Athens, Greece (1926) | See guide | See guide |
| Faxe Kondi | Faxe, Denmark (1971 (as Koral Kondi)) | See guide | See guide |
| Felix | Eslöv, Skåne, Sweden (1939 (roots in a vinegar works of the 1870s)) | See guide | See guide |
| Festis | Gothenburg, Sweden (April 1961 (as FEST-iS)) | See guide | See guide |
| Figaro | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Fleury Michon | La Roche-sur-Yon and Paris, France (1905 (Félix Fleury’s shop from 1885)) | See guide | See guide |
| Fontaneda | Aguilar de Campoo, Palencia, Spain (1881) | See guide | See guide |
| Francine | France (1965) | See guide | See guide |
| Franck | Zagreb, Croatia (1892 (branch of Heinrich Franck Söhne)) | See guide | See guide |
| Galbani | Ballabio, Lombardy, Italy (1882) | See guide | See guide |
| Goplana | Poznań, Poland (1911 as Luna; named Goplana 1913 (the company dates itself to 1912)) | See guide | See guide |
| Gösser | Göss, Leoben, Styria (1860 (abbey brewing recorded 1459)) | See guide | See guide |
| Göteborgs Kex | Kungälv, Sweden (1888 (full production 1889)) | See guide | See guide |
| HAK | Giessen, Netherlands (1952 (family trade from the 1920s)) | See guide | See guide |
| Hamé | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Harboe | Skælskør, Denmark (1883) | See guide | See guide |
| Hartwall | Helsinki, Finland (1836 (Senate licence)) | See guide | See guide |
| Hengstenberg | Esslingen am Neckar, Germany (1876) | See guide | See guide |
| Herta | Herten, Germany (1897 (Herta name from 1947)) | See guide | See guide |
| Hojiblanca | Antequera, Málaga, Spain (Co-op formed 1987; brand presented 1997) | See guide | See guide |
| Horalky | Sereď, Slovakia (1965 (company date)) | See guide | See guide |
| Hortex | Poland (1958 (as a state foreign-trade enterprise)) | See guide | See guide |
| Imlek | Glogonjski Rit, Belgrade, Serbia (1953 (within PKB)) | See guide | See guide |
| Inzersdorfer | Inzersdorf, Vienna, Austria (1873 (first factory c. 1870, the company says)) | See guide | See guide |
| Isabel | Elantxobe, Biscay, Spain (1887 (the company says)) | See guide | See guide |
| Jaffa | Crvenka, Vojvodina, Serbia (1975) | See guide | See guide |
| Jamnica | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Jupiler | Jupille-sur-Meuse, Liège, Belgium (1966) | See guide | See guide |
| Kalles Kaviar | Sweden (1954 (company date; advertised from 1950)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kas | Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (1956 (El Mundo and El Independiente: 1954)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kelly’s | Vienna, Austria (1955 (as the American Popcorn Company)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kelsen | Nørre Snede, Denmark (1933) | See guide | See guide |
| Knjaz Miloš | Aranđelovac, Serbia (1811 (spring tradition); current company form 2000) | See guide | See guide |
| Koff | Helsinki, Finland (1819 (Sinebrychoff); Koff brand 1957) | See guide | See guide |
| Kofola | Czechoslovakia (1960 (KOFO syrup developed 1959)) | See guide | See guide |
| Konti | Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine (October 1997 (as Kyiv-Konti)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kotányi | Szeged, Hungary; Vienna, Austria (1881 (Vienna register entry 1887)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kozel | Velké Popovice, near Prague (1874 (first brew)) | See guide | See guide |
| Krakus | Warsaw, Poland (1951 (Animex; US trademark registration)) | Animex Foods (Smithfield Foods, WH Group) | See guide |
| Krasny Oktyabr | Moscow, Russia (1851 (as Einem; renamed Krasny Oktyabr 1922)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kraš | Zagreb, Croatia (1911 (as Union)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kubuś | Olsztynek, Poland (1994 (first production)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kyknos | Nafplio, Greece (1915 (canning at Asini from 1911)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kägi | Lichtensteig, Toggenburg, Switzerland (1934) | See guide | See guide |
| Kühne | Berlin, Germany (1722 (vinegar brewery)) | See guide | See guide |
| Lacta | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Laima | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Lapin Kulta | Tornio, Finland (1873 (brewery); Lapin Kulta beer, early 1960s) | See guide | See guide |
| Ledo | Zagreb, Croatia (1958 (within Zagrebačka mljekara)) | See guide | See guide |
| Leibniz | Hanover, Germany (1891 (biscuit named); Bahlsen founded 1889) | See guide | See guide |
| Lesieur | Coudekerque-Branche (Dunkirk), France (1908) | See guide | See guide |
| Loka | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Loux | Patras, Greece (1950) | See guide | See guide |
| Maestrani | Lucerne, Switzerland (1852 (St. Gallen from 1859)) | See guide | See guide |
| Mahou | Madrid, Spain (1889–1890 (as Hijos de Casimiro Mahou)) | See guide | See guide |
| Mattoni | Kyselka, near Karlovy Vary (1873 (spring leased 1867)) | See guide | See guide |
| Mills | Grünerløkka, Oslo, Norway (1885 (as A/S Agra Margarinfabrik)) | See guide | See guide |
| Minerva | Athens and Piraeus, Greece (1887 (olive oil from 1904)) | See guide | See guide |
| MISKO | Piraeus, Greece (1927) | See guide | See guide |
| Mlekovita | Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland (1928 (plant); cooperative 1957; Mlekovita name 1992) | See guide | See guide |
| Morshynska | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Napolact | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Nemiroff | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Nidar | Trondheim, Norway (2 May 1912) | See guide | See guide |
| Nocilla | Spain (1967 (by the Starlux group)) | See guide | See guide |
| Obolon | Kyiv, Ukraine (1980 (as Kyiv Brewery No. 3)) | See guide | See guide |
| Odlums | Maryborough (now Portlaoise), Ireland (1845) | See guide | See guide |
| Olvi | Iisalmi, Finland (1878) | See guide | See guide |
| Opavia | Opava, Czech Silesia (1840 (Fiedor); Opavia name 1958) | See guide | See guide |
| Ottakringer | Ottakring, Vienna, Austria (1837 (brewing licence; opened 1838)) | See guide | See guide |
| Pago | Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria (1888) | See guide | See guide |
| Papadopoulos | Athens, Greece (1922 (family roots in Istanbul)) | See guide | See guide |
| Pavlides | Athens, Greece (1841) | See guide | See guide |
| Pescanova | Vigo, Galicia, Spain (1960) | See guide | See guide |
| Pick | Szeged, Hungary (1869) | See guide | See guide |
| Podravka | Koprivnica, Croatia (1947 (Wolf fruit workshop from 1934)) | See guide | See guide |
| Polarbröd | Älvsbyn, Norrbotten, Sweden (1972 as Polarbageriet AB (family bakery from 1878/79)) | See guide | See guide |
| Ponti | Sizzano, Piedmont, Italy (1787 (vinegar trade)) | See guide | See guide |
| Prince Polo | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Pripps | Gothenburg, Sweden (1828) | See guide | See guide |
| Pöttyös | Budapest, Hungary (1968 (Túró Rudi)) | See guide | See guide |
| Ragusa | Courtelary, Switzerland (1942) | See guide | See guide |
| Ramlösa | Ramlösa, Helsingborg, Sweden (1707 (spa); bottling from 1912) | See guide | See guide |
| Ramseier | Ramsei, Emmental, Switzerland (1910 (as a fruit-wine cooperative)) | See guide | See guide |
| Rauch | Rankweil, Vorarlberg, Austria (1919) | See guide | See guide |
| Riga Black Balsam | Riga, Latvia (1752 (recipe by Abraham Kunze)) | See guide | See guide |
| Ringnes | Christiania (Oslo), Norway (1876 (as Ringnes & Co)) | See guide | See guide |
| Rivella | Stäfa, Switzerland (1952) | See guide | See guide |
| Rokiškio | Rokiškis, Lithuania (Plant built from 1964, opened 1966; AB Rokiškio sūris registered 1992) | See guide | See guide |
| ROM | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Roshen | Kyiv, Ukraine (1996 (named Roshen in 2002)) | See guide | See guide |
| Römerquelle | See guide | Coca-Cola HBC Austria (since 2003) | See guide |
| Saku | Saku Manor, Estonia (1820) | See guide | See guide |
| Saupiquet | Nantes, France (1877 (company incorporated 1891)) | See guide | See guide |
| Seitenbacher | Waldenbuch, Germany (1980) | See guide | See guide |
| Selga | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Sokołów | Sokołów Podlaski, Poland (1975 plant; group roots in Poznań, 1899) | See guide | See guide |
| Solo | Tønsberg, Norway (1934 (Tønsberg Bryggeri)) | See guide | See guide |
| Spilva | Spilve, Babīte, Latvia (1992 (as a small canning workshop)) | Orkla (since 2004), via Orkla Latvija | See guide |
| Sport | Budapest, Hungary (20 August 1953) | See guide | See guide |
| Stabburet | Fredrikstad, Norway (1936 (shop); 1943 (production)) | See guide | See guide |
| Star | Muggiò, Italy (1948) | See guide | See guide |
| Stiegl | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Svitoch | Lviv, Ukraine (1962 (history traced to 1882)) | See guide | See guide |
| Swisslion | Novi Sad / Vršac, Serbia (1991 (company); 1997 (first factory, per the company)) | Rodoljub Drašković | See guide |
| Szamos | Budapest, Hungary (1930s (company’s own dating)) | See guide | See guide |
| Takovo | Gornji Milanovac, Serbia (1959 (as Takovo); PIK Takovo 1962) | See guide | See guide |
| Tibi | Budapest, Hungary (1941 (Stühmer chocolate factory)) | See guide | See guide |
| Timișoreana | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Tine | Norway (1928 (as Norske Meieriers Eksportlag); Tine name 1992) | See guide | See guide |
| Tipiak | France (Paris and Nantes houses) (1967 (Groult 1830, Billard 1879)) | See guide | See guide |
| Toms | Copenhagen, Denmark (1924) | See guide | See guide |
| Tuborg | Hellerup, north of Copenhagen, Denmark (1873 (first beer 1875; pilsner 1880)) | See guide | See guide |
| Tymbark | Tymbark, Poland (1936 (company’s date)) | See guide | See guide |
| Unicum | Pest (Budapest), Hungary (1840 (Zwack distillery); Unicum trade mark 1883) | See guide | See guide |
| Unox | Oss, Netherlands (1937 (brand name; Hartog business from 1876)) | See guide | See guide |
| Ursus | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Valio | Hanko, Finland (1905 (as Voinvienti-osuusliike Valio)) | See guide | See guide |
| Vegeta | Koprivnica, Croatia (1959 (as Vegeta 40)) | See guide | See guide |
| Venz | Amsterdam, Netherlands (1890) | See guide | See guide |
| Villars | Pérolles plateau, Villars-sur-Glâne (now Fribourg), Switzerland (22 May 1901; Villars SA from 1904) | See guide | See guide |
| Vindija | Varaždin, Croatia (1959 (as the town dairy)) | See guide | See guide |
| Vöslauer | Bad Vöslau, Lower Austria (1936 (bottling since 1909)) | See guide | See guide |
| Winiary | Winiary, near Kalisz, Poland (1941) | See guide | See guide |
| Zagorka | Stara Zagora, Bulgaria (1902 (as the Badashtnost brewery)) | See guide | See guide |
| Zipfer | Zipf, Upper Austria (1858 (official founding date)) | See guide | See guide |
| Zlatiborac | Mačkat, Zlatibor, Serbia (1992 (company); family tradition dated to 1885) | See guide | See guide |
| Zlatý Bažant | Hurbanovo, Slovakia (1969 (brewery completed; malthouse 1967)) | See guide | See guide |
| Zvečevo | Požega, Croatia (20 October 1921 (as Stock Cognac Medicinal)) | See guide | See guide |
| Zweifel | Zurich-Höngg, Switzerland (1898 (drinks trade); chips brand 1958) | See guide | See guide |
| Łowicz | Łowicz, Poland (Plant opened 1965 (company date); 1963 in a 1983 guidebook) | See guide | See guide |
| Štark | Zemun (now Belgrade), Serbia (1922 (chocolate factory from 1924)) | See guide | See guide |
| Švyturys | Klaipėda (Memel), Lithuania (1784) | See guide | See guide |
| Żywiec | Żywiec, Poland (1856 (company registration)) | See guide | See guide |
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