Marli
Finnish fruit juice brand
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Eckes-Granini Finland Oy Ab (until 2009 Oy Marli Ab) is a Finnish food company owned by the German Eckes-Granini Group GmbH. The company’s turnover is about 58 million euros, and it has about 130 employees, over 150 during summertime.[1] The company’s head office and factory are located in Turku. The company manufactures and sells more than 150 products.[2] Its best-known brands are Juissi, Marli, Mehukatti, Trip, and Tropic.
History
Marli’s history begins with the wine and liqueur factory founded in Turku in 1867 by Anders Nordfors.[3] The production of wines and liqueurs was suspended during Prohibition, which came into force in 1919, whereupon the factory began producing juices and other non-alcoholic beverages.[4] In 1954, Huhtamäki-Yhtymä Oy bought Nordfors's factory and merged it with the Marli Berry Wine and Liqueur Factory (formerly O/Y Marvi A/B), which it had previously acquired.[5]
In 1992, Huhtamäki sold Marli to Oy Rettig Ab and, in exchange, received from Rettig the Merijal and Seres confectionery factories it owned.[6] Rettig had bought these factories in the 1970s.[7][8]
In 1999, the Lappeenranta-based Chymos Juomat Oy was merged with Marli. The following year, Marli was split into two companies: Oy Marli Ab, which produced juices, and a company engaged in alcohol-related business.[5]
Rettig sold Marli to Eckes-Granini in 2001[9] and sold the alcohol business to the Swedish V&S Vin & Sprit AB definitively in 2002. In Finland, the latter operations are continued by Pernod Ricard Finland Oy.[10]