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13.11.2023 • Ilomantsi

Good service, wider market

"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...

09.10.2023 • City of Rääkkylä

Keen eye for customer needs, high pressure tolerance and good service

Would you need some building materials for a house or a waste water system? What about various kinds of tools to buy or to rent? Need a new kitchen or household appliances or proper work shoes? Need...

26.09.2023 • ICT and digitisation

Ambientia: Creating digital solutions for a better tomorrow

Ambientia is a forward-thinking organization that combines the trifecta of design, technology, and business insight to create innovative digital solutions. In an ever-changing world, Ambientia is...

12.09.2023 • City of Joensuu

Stronger through coaching

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

Building entrepreneurship

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

From side streams to durable cutlery

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

Providing Hymynkare with knowledge, skills and emotion

- 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

VoiceFit - the new and glamorous life of a soprano!

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...

22.03.2023 • City of Joensuu

Reliable, competent and reachable

The desire to develop and become developed is characteristic of PrimeTalous Oy's entrepreneur Heidi Laaninen. After working for years as an employee at an accounting firm, she chose entrepreneurship...

24.02.2023 • Start-up entrepreneurs

Weaving a fabric of conscious, ethical, local production

More news from Tiukula! In January, the company launched its first own yarn brand, Neulojan Sohvilla. At the end of March, the yarn shop will move to its new premises in Raatekangas, Joensuu. In...

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29.07.2026 • City of Joensuu

Kelluu expands to Canada, brings persistent airship surveillance to the Arctic

Kelluu, the Finnish company behind the world's largest autonomous airship fleet, is expanding into Canada. The new location is at Area X.O in Ottawa, Canada's national hub for defence innovation. It...

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02.07.2026 • Business Joensuu news