Orkla Brands (formerly Orkla Branded Consumer Goods) consists of four business units: Orkla Foods Nordic, Orkla Brands Nordic, Orkla Brands International and Orkla Food Ingredients.
The Nordic region is Orkla Brands' domestic market, besides which the business area has established strong market positions in parts of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and India. At the end of 2009, Orkla Brands employed a workforce equivalent to 12,866 man-years and had 85 production facilities in 16 countries.
The business area bases its strategy and organisation on a multi-local model, where responsibility for value creation and decision-making lies at the local level with the individual companies.