Companies | HKScan is changing its name

Food company HKScan adopts a new name. From Monday, the company will start using the name HKFoods. The change was registered in the trade register on Friday.

HKFOODS will be the new trading symbol on the stock exchange.

HKFoods is the parent company in the group, which includes the subsidiaries HKScan Finland, HKScan Denmark in Denmark and HKScan Poland in Poland.

The company announced at the beginning of May that it would sell its Danish subsidiary to the Dutch Plukon Food Group. The deal is scheduled to take place this year, as long as it receives approval from the Danish competition authority.

HKScan announced in December that it would sell its subsidiary in Sweden. The Baltic subsidiaries were sold in 2022. After the transactions, HKScan will be left with a bacon manufacturing unit in Poland in addition to the operations in Finland.