Monday, February 15, 2010

Finland's Top 5

For this blog I will give examples of Finish resources and list the top five businesses responsible for this savvy and potent economy. Finland’s economy is primarily built around forestry which produces massive amounts of construction materials, wood product and paper products. Large timber forests in the Northern regions of Finland provide the natural resources for the development of this good. Two out of Finland’s top five businesses in the nation are timber wood manufactures: UPM-Kymmen (#4), and Stora Enso (#2). Other than forestry, Finland has a very high powered industrial economy and given the excellent water access trading is also a discipline of one of Finland’s top five Businesses. A business called Kesko ranks fifth as Finland’s largest and most successful business. Kesko (#5) is responsible for a large portion of the trading and manufacturing of goods throughout Europe which generates revenue as Finish income. Another natural resource found in Finland is oil which leads to Finland’s third wealthiest business. Neste Oil (#3) is a company in Finland that does a variety of services with fossil fuels and provides for customers such as: Natural gas pipeline operators, petrochemicals companies, and oil refineries. The most successful and possibly the most well known business hailing from Finland is Nokia (#1) which specializes in electronics. Nokia now specializes in cell phones but has been a household name in Finland since 1865 which initially produced such things as rubber, basic cables, radios, and later on phones of all kinds. http://www.uranus.fi/en/jobseekers/jobs/open.php?id=19982
[Picture of Helsinki Finish capital city & Nokia cell phone]

1 comment:

  1. Nice job. Your post was very well organized and outlined neatly. I didn't know Nokia was produced by Finland. I have had a couple of different Nokia cell phones and they have all worked well for the most part. None of them were to high tech but they got the job done. Hopefully Finlands successful forest industry will not kill to much of the natural beauty of the country.

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