Sofia Helsinki Competitors

We excel and make breakthroughs in and across science, art, technology and business. We renew our society with research-based knowledge, creativity and entrepreneurial mindset. Aalto University has been ranked the 7th best young university in the world (Top 50 under 50, QS 2018) and one of the world’s top technology challenger universities (THE 2017), thinking outside the box on research collaboration, funding and innovation. Aalto has six schools with 20 000 students and 5 000 employees of which close to 450 are professors. Our campus is located in Espoo, Finland. With over 50% of our academic faculty coming from outside Finland, we are a highly international community with strong academic standing. At Aalto, high-quality research, art, education and entrepreneurship are promoted hand in hand. Disciplinary excellence is combined with multidisciplinary activities, engaging both students and the local innovation ecosystem. Our main campus is quickly transforming into an open collaboration hub that encourages encounters between students, researchers, industry, startups and other partners. With an exceptionally strong entrepreneurial community, 70-100 new companies are born in our ecosystem every year. Aalto University was founded in 2010 as three leading Finnish universities, Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki, were merged to strengthen Finland’s innovative capability.

Paulig is an international food and beverage company behind much-loved brands across Tex Mex, coffee, World Foods, snacks and spices, including Santa Maria, Paulig, Conimex, Poco Loco and Zanuy. Our ambition is to become one of the fastest-growing, profitable food and beverage companies, and a sustainability frontrunner in the industry. For us, flavour is more than taste. It is how we bring people together, how we grow, and how we care for our tomorrows. Through our own brands, we create products and concepts for both consumers and professional customers. Paulig also manufactures products for private label and industry partners, bringing our expertise to retail, out-of-home and industrial customers through high-quality private label and semi-finished solutions. Our journey began in 1876, when Gustav Paulig opened a small trading company in Helsinki. With curiosity and a taste for discovery, he introduced consumers to coffee, spices, and new flavours from around the world. Today, 150 years later, that same spirit continues to drive us. And still today, Paulig is 100% owned by the Paulig family. The company has 2700 passionate employees in 13 different countries working on our purpose "For a life full of flavour".We sell to over 80 markets across the world. At Paulig, we embrace curiosity and creativity, exploring the world of new flavours and more sustainable ways to bring them to life. From the first sip of morning coffee to shared dinners with loved ones, we want to be there in those moments. For a life full of flavour.

MUJI was founded in 1980. Its origin was a thorough rationalization of the manufacturing process with an eye to creating simple, low-cost, good quality products. Specifically, we reexamined products through three lenses: material selection, inspection process and simplification of packaging. For instance, if you omit the bleaching process for pulp, the resulting paper is light beige in color. MUJI used this paper for its packaging and labels. The ensuing products are remarkably pure and fresh. In notable contrast to the prevailing over-embellished products in the marketplace, MUJI's products both won great appreciation and sent shock waves not only through Japan but across the entire world. Mujirushi Ryohin, MUJI in Japanese, translates as "no-brand quality goods." MUJI's goal is to give customers a rational satisfaction, expressed not with, "This is what I really want" but with "This will do." "This is what I really want" expresses both faint egoism and discord while "This will do" expresses conciliatory reasoning. We have been credited with being "resource-saving", "low-priced", "simple", "anonymous" and "nature-oriented". There are more than 1,000 MUJI stores around the world carrying more than 7,000 items ranging from clothing and household goods to food and even houses. But the foundation of our ideology hasn't changed since the day we were conceived; like the compass that points due North, we continue to orient ourselves to the basis and universality of daily life.