3 November 2022 The European Innovation Scoreboard 2022 slots Finland second behind Sweden in terms of innovation performance, with both countries earning the status of an innovation leader.

Finland stands out favourably in the comparison due to strengths such as lifelong learning, public-private co-publications and collaboration between small and medium enterprise. Indeed, Finland’s performance is increasing at a rate higher than the EU as a whole, and enjoys a faster growing economy and higher per capita income when compared with the bloc.

23 September 2022 Kesko continues to implement its growth strategy by investing over €300 million in building an 82,000 square metre logistics centre for Onninen and K-Auto in Hyvinkää, Finland. The project will be completed in stages between 2025 and 2030.

The new logistics centre will be located in Hyvinkää. Kesko acquired a 42-hectare property in the area in July 2021. During the first phase, the new logistics centre will be over 80,000 square metres in size, most of it reserved for Onninen. It will replace Onninen’s current logistics centre, also located in Hyvinkää, and be the workplace of some 400–500 logistics professionals. The current centre houses some 400 employees.

12 August 2022 One of them is Foodiq, a Finnish developer and producer of plant-based products, in June revealed it has raised 13 million euros in funding, a boon it intends to use to ramp up production capacity, expand operations into new markets and product categories, accelerate international growth, and add talent to its organization. The seven-year-old startup also intends to concentrate its operations in Finland to Järvenpää, where it recently acquired the production facility of Gold & Green Foods. Its goal is to speed up the transition to more plant-based diets and climate-friendly food production by bringing to market delicious plant-based options made from locally sourced raw materials with sustainable methods.

2 August 2022  Finland ranked first in the European Union’s digital performance comparison. The European Commission’s annual Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) monitors the digital performance of EU Member States and tracks their progress in digitalisation. Finland has been at the top of the list for several years, ranking number two in 2021 and number one in 2019 and 2020.

The maximum score in the DESI comparison is 100. Finland’s score this year is 69.6. The EU average is 52.3. Ranked after Finland in the digital performance comparison are Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden.

6 June 2022  The cooperation with Microsoft and Fortum, which carried out the project study, has been efficient from the very beginning. The project has a major positive impact on the municipality’s employment and development, says Erkki Eerola, Mayor of Vihti.

According to research institute IDC, Microsoft, its ecosystem, and cloud customers could together generate more than 11,000 jobs in Finland for IT professionals over the next four years.

26 February 2022 The municipality of Sipoo and DHL Supply Chain Finland Oy will conclude more than € 3.5 million plot sales in the logistics area of ​​Bastukärr. DHL intends to build a logistics center comprising three buildings. The main building is a single-storey storage terminal with just over 44,300 square meters. In addition, a 180 m2 technical building and a 2,500 m2 covered outdoor warehouse will be built on the site. DHL Supply Chain is the world’s largest contract logistics company.