We are thrilled to announce that Nordic Flavors Metsä (Forest) chocolate just won the silver award in chocolate candy category as part of the Specialty Food Association’s (SFA) 2020 sofi™ Awards, a top honor in the $158 billion specialty food industry. Metsä was one of 148 winners selected by a panel of specialty food experts from nearly 2,000 entries across 39 product categories. Products are judged on taste, including flavor, appearance, texture and aroma, ingredient quality and innovation. All tastings are blind. “We are thrilled that Metsä has won silver and we are very grateful for this prestigious award. Nature is an incredible wonder that keeps on inspiring us – this is our tribute to the miraculous Nordic nature”, says Jussi Salonen, CEO of Goodio...
We have exciting news for you! We are thrilled to announce that we have launched our Nordic Flavors at Whole Foods Market stores across the US. We introduce four unique flavors that are inspired by the Nordic nature. The Nordic Flavors chocolate line highlights the charm of the unique Nordic nature with the four special flavors: Berry, Flower, Forest, and Sea. The four flavors consist of vegan, organic and gluten-free chocolate that is topped with Nordic nature’s key elements. The cacao content is between 69%–71% depending on the flavor. ‘Berry’ features wild Nordic berries – strawberry, sea buckthorn, lingonberry – and blackcurrant leaves. ‘Flower’ has flower petals and rose crystals on top of the smooth and snappy chocolate. ‘Forest’ features some of the...
During the week of International Women´s Day 20 lucky persons from Partioaitta´s 365 Club got to visit our factory in Sörnäinen. Together with Partioaitta we organized an evening full of excitement and memories, including possibility to make a very own chocolate with beautiful decorations. We welcomed everyone with a warm cup of tea or coffee. The evening started with the most exciting part – making a very own chocolate. The new chocolate artists had plenty of toppings to choose from and we saw a lot of beautiful decorations. Everybody was able to pack their chocolate and bring it home with them. After making the chocolate our Production Manager Antoni gave a tour in the production facilities and everyone learned step...
In honor of the International Women’s Day we announce that we have donated more than $12.000 to the Ubuntu Life Foundation over the course of two years. For each Café Ubuntu chocolate bar sold $0.50 we continue to donate to Ubuntu’s health and education programs supporting children with special needs as well as empowering and educating women in Maai Mahiu, Kenya. Café Ubuntu chocolate is made in collaboration with Ubuntu Life Foundation and Allegro Coffee. We are proud of this partnership with the Ubuntu Life foundation. Social responsibility is a core value for Goodio and this partnership is one of the ways we work towards this value on a concrete level. As a small company, we are of course...
We are expanding our business again - this time in two different continents! From the beginning of February our chocolates will be available in two new markets. Goodio is launching the vegan and organic chocolates in Russia and Canada. Cool right? Our vegan chocolates are available now in all Prisma Russia stores located in St. Petersburg. We are thrilled to start exporting to Russia, which has been a traditional export market for Finnish companies. What makes it even more exciting is to start the collaboration with SOK. We have had the privilege to work with them on the Finnish market for a long time. The Canadian market is opened by launching with a distributor and in Canada’s largest bookstore...
