group type business group industry foodservice founded 1891 headquarters helsinki finland website www.fazer.fi fazer finnish pronunciation fatser is one of the largest corporations in the finnish food industry . the company was originally founded by karl fazer in 1891 as a french russian confectionary in central helsinki . 1 today it employs over ten thousand people in finland as well as sweden norway denmark the baltic countries the united kingdom and russia . fazer s production is divided into four major areas fazer amica a chain of work place restaurants fazer bakeries producing various kinds of bread candyking shop in shop pick n mix confectionery concept fazer caf a chain of caf s. the main fazer caf is on kluuvikatu in helsinki . pantteri is a popular brand of candies by fazer . particularly fazer s classic chocolate fazerin sininen maitosuklaa is famous in finland and the blue colour of its wrapper has been used by fazer as a symbol for the whole product line . fazer has bought a few other companies including finnish chymos and danish perelly . the confectionery line was merged with its swedish competitor cloetta in 2000 to become cloetta fazer though the merger lasted only until 2008 before the two brands were separated back to independent companies . 2 later fazer keksit which made biscuits was sold to danone . it was renamed to lu suomi . see also edit cloettafazer ab references edit fazer.com history finnish fazerin sininen taas suomalaiseksi helsingin sanomat external links edit fazer home page karl fazer milk chocolate cloetta fazer home page this food and or confectionery corporation or company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fazer & oldid 733382771 categories chocolate companiescompanies established in 1891food and drink companies of finlandfinnish brandscompanies based in helsinkifood company stubshidden categories articles with finnish language external linksall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages e tinadanskdeutscheestifran aislatvie umagyarpolskiportugu s suomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 7 august 2016 at 12 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view