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18.01.2024 Heinävesi

On the fast lane from 2017! This is how the business story of Kotityö Turunen can be rightfully summarised. Over the course of six years, the entrepreneurial couple Inkeri and Taito Turunen have...

11.12.2023 City of Joensuu

External perspective, ideas for productisation and new milestones for development. This was what Tara Tuomisilta from trauma and psychotherapy centre Geneesi and Maiju Rissanen from body therapy...

13.11.2023 Ilomantsi

"Positively forward", reminds Kesport Ilomantsi's trader Heli Kortelainen when preparing the displays at the store for the upcoming skiing season. At the end of September, the company celebrated...

12.09.2023 City of Joensuu

The year 2019 was a turning point for Maarakennus Niemeläinen. The construction sites became quiet, which in itself was not unusual in a sector sensitive to cyclical fluctuations. Riku Alitupa, who...

14.08.2023 Start-up entrepreneurs

From a sole trader to a limited liability company – that’s the path that Anni Vento from Joensuu is currently progressing along. In autumn 2022, Vento participated in Business Joensuu’s start-up...

16.06.2023 City of Outokumpu

The five-year target is a turnover of over EUR 40 million. For Nature Line Cutlery Oy, which is aiming at a turnover of approximately EUR 9 million this year, the target is of course tough but...

23.05.2023 City of Outokumpu

- The work had become caring for a computer, even though I should have been taking care of people. I had to find another kind of solution, Katri Koskisuu-Reijonen says, describing how she felt in...

17.04.2023 Start-up entrepreneurs

Is this it? A couple of years ago when Henna-Mari Luolamo posed herself this frustrated question, she was going through what she describes as some sort of a crisis. Working as a singing teacher and...

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09.04.2024 Business Joensuu news

This year, the Start Me Up business idea competition received 168 accepted proposals, with the aim of discovering and supporting new growth entrepreneurs and startups. After the initial screening by...