TORO is a Norwegian

Norway

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 manufacturer and brand

Brand

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 of sauce

Sauce

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s, soup

Soup

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s and other similar produce. Owned by Rieber & Søn

Rieber & Søn

Rieber & Søn is a Norwegian food manufacturing company the owns and produces a wide range of products and brands. The company is based in Bergen with more than 25 brands in 12 countries, of which 7 have manufacturing plants...

, the plant is based in Indre Arna

Indre Arna

Indre Arna is a settlement in Arna borough in Bergen, Norway. While Indre Arna is relatively far from most of the city by road, an 8-minute train journey through Ulriken connects Indre Arna to the city centre. On January 1, 2008, the Indre Arna urban settlement, as defined by Statistics Norway, had...

 in Bergen

Bergen

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 and sold 140 million consumption units divided between 750 products. Of the 900 employees, 350 work at the plant in Indre Arna.

The TORO brand was launched in 1959 with the production of vegetable soup

Vegetable Soup

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. Toro is Spanish for ox

Ox

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 and registered in 1964. Three years later it moved from Nøstet to Arna. There have been nine expansions of the production plant since the start.