Toms Didrihsons

Orkla Latvija, leading FMCG company in Latvia with total revenues of 118m'EUR and external EBIT margin of 8%. Number one brands in condiments, snacks, chocolate and biscuits in Latvia

Key milestones:

• Developing strong teams of whom several have been promoted into new roles within Orkla
• Merging Orkla Confectionery & Snacks Latvija with Orkla Foods Latvija and creating Orkla Latvija
• Divestment of non-core businesses, such as bottled water/Everest, convenience foods/Pedro
• Larger restructuring in supply chain: building new chocolate factory and re-allocation of production between Estonia and Latvia, moving biscuit production into newly build factory (OBP), moving souce production from central Europe to Spilva factory
• Improving efficiencies across whole business value chain by optimizing total organization from 1'100 FTEs (2018) to 650 FTEs (2023)
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Largest federation in Latvia representing foods and beverage industry. Lobbying, governmental relationships, PR

• Team development
• Turnaround case from loss making into profits
• Culture building
• Employer branding

• Leading finance, accounting, IT and legal teams
• Post-integration management

• Integration lead of largest Orkla M&A in Latvia, NP Foods Group (brands like Laima, Selga, Gutta, Staburadze and other) into Orkla
• Merging snacks business (Latfood) with confectionery and biscuits (NP Foods) and creating Orkla C&S Latvija

Orkla Foods Latvija - one of the leading foods companies ir Latvia, operating with the brand Spilva with annual revenues of ca 18 m'EUR and ebit 6%

• Leading the team of FP&A, Accounting and IT, ca 15 people
• budgeting, costing, reporting to Orkla central
• Part of Orkla Foods Fenno-Baltic division
• Small add-on acquisitions (ie spices, Latplanta)
• Part of management team