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Estonia

YOOK is being built from scratch and will be the first plant-based drinks manufacturer in the Baltics, when it launches in the second half of 2023. Being the CEO of a start-up company, which with its innovative technology and products challenges the traditional food industry, requires excellent management, leadership and fast learning skills. Constantly.

Estonia

Market leader in organic ice creams in Estonia, producing and offering the most Finnish ice cream in Finland, crowfunded and listed in Funderbeam and having sky as the limit for ice cream heaven.

Tallink is the largest catering company on the Baltic Sea, offering food and beverage experiences on 14 vessels and recorded around 240 mEUR turnover in food and beverage in 2019. It was close to 30% of Tallink’s general revenue in 2019. With my team we create the unique restaurants concepts with professionally coordinated menus, we constantly ensure the.

I am responsible for Tallink's international shore trade, launching and running Burger King franchise in the Baltics. The grand opening of the biggest fast-food chain in Baltics coincided with the onset of the pandemic, managing to open 3 restaurants at once, for today having 15 selling points all over the Baltic States and 5 more will be launched in no.

In 2017, the well-known Estonian brand Tere went through financial turbulence. It was decided to merge it with its main competitor, Farmi, to save the food industry's flagship Tere and to ensure the rapid growth of Farmi's business, becoming Estonia's largest dairy. At the time I was brought into the company to bring the companies together under one roof.

Südameapteek is the second largest pharmacy chain in Estonia with a turnover of over 50 million euros and nearly 400 employees. I was invited to lead the company to significantly improve cash flow and profitability and secure a market position.As part of the same healthcare group, I had the opportunity to follow the birth of the private medical company.

With the management team, we acquired small Estonian ice cream producer Tallinna Külmhoone in 2006, with Amber Trust II Fund. 9 years later it had grown to Premia Foods, an international FMCG company with 50mEUR revenue, active in 6 markets and all together in three business segments (ice cream, frozen goods and red fish). Being the market leader in the.

Estonia

After leaving Ösel Foods, we decided together with the management to start a new company for the production and sale of innovative ready meals and soups, with the aim of creating profitable business immediately. The factory was built in a record time of 5 months, and we started production of the newly built brand Maakera 6 months after we came out with an.

Estonia

Ösel Foods needed a balanced product portfolio, by that time the sales were led by Linnuse kali and some light alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Moonshot's plan was to create a juice brand to take over the position of market leader in 2 years. However, it took less time for newborn Aura brand, it became the market leader in 1.5 years, launching its.

I got my first job during studies in Tartu University, I was to sell the advertising boxes on the Tartu paper map to companies looking for customers. After personal door-to-door sales, I was initially offered a media planner position and as an account director at an advertising agency that was part of the largest pan-Baltic advertising group at the time.

Marketing & Foreign Trade

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