What Ekberg does

Ekberg (legal entity Ekberg 1852 Oy Ab) is a Helsinki-based café, bakery, and patisserie founded in 1852 by Fredrik Edvard Ekberg and recognized as Finland's oldest operating business in its category. The company operates a single 90-seat café at Bulevardi 9 in central Helsinki, complemented by an on-site retail shop for its own baked goods, an event venue (Ekberg Extra) accommodating up to 60 guests, and home-delivery service through the Wolt and Foodora platforms. It is family-owned and currently in its fifth generation of stewardship under Mark and Nina Ekberg.

The core product is traditional Nordic and continental patisserie built on a 100+ year-old sourdough starter and recipes passed down through generations. The café runs a tiered, time-segmented pricing structure: weekday breakfast at €17.90 per person, weekday lunch at €14.50 per person, and Saturday brunch at €32.90 per person. Table reservations are managed through the Quandoo platform, and the corporate website is published in Finnish, Swedish, English, and Japanese — the latter indicating a deliberate effort to capture inbound tourism.

Revenue is generated across four streams: dine-in café and restaurant sales, on-site bakery and patisserie retail, corporate and private event catering via the Ekberg Extra venue, and off-premise home delivery. The customer base is predominantly walk-in retail consumers, supplemented by event clients and delivery customers, with no disclosed enterprise anchor accounts. Headcount is reported in the 11–50 range, consistent with a single-location specialty F&B operator.

Name

Ekberg

Legal name

Ekberg 1852 Oy Ab

Website

https://ekberg.fi

Company type

Private

Founded year

1852

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ekberg is Finland's oldest bakery, patisserie, and café, founded in 1852 and family-owned into its fifth generation. It operates a single 90-seat café on Bulevardi in central Helsinki, with on-site retail, an event venue, and home delivery via Wolt and Foodora.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Artisan Bakery and Café

NAICS

Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251), Baked Goods Retailers (445291)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Bakery Products (2050)

akta.pro primary industry

Cafe-Bakeries (Bakery + Coffee/Foodservice) (THAFAFAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Patisseries & Dessert Boutiques (CRAHAGAB), Dessert Cafes & Dessert Bars (Sit-Down) (THAFAGAI)

Keywords

• Artisan bakery products
• Patisserie and pastries
• Café dining services
• Event venue rental
• Catering services

Headquarters

HQ city

Helsinki

HQ country

Finland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Café and Restaurant Sales: Dine-in service at Ekberg Café offering breakfast, lunch, brunch, and à la carte menu items. Revenue generated from food and beverage sales directly to consumers at the Helsinki location.
2. Bakery and Patisserie Retail: On-site bakery shop sales of fresh bread, pastries, cakes, and prepared foods for take-away. Products sold directly to customers visiting the Bulevardi location.
3. Catering and Event Services: Catering services including warm food delivery to Ekberg Extra event venue, cold food catering for external events, custom cakes and party food orders. Also includes event venue rental at Ekberg Extra (up to 60 people).
4. Home Delivery: Products ordered through Wolt and Foodora delivery platforms for home delivery within Helsinki area, generating transaction-based revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Ekberg operates a heritage bakery, patisserie, café, and event venue at Bulevardi 9 in Helsinki, Finland. The business produces handcrafted breads, pastries, and celebration cakes using traditional recipes including a 100+ year-old sourdough starter, and serves breakfast, brunch, and lunch buffets in its café. It also operates Ekberg Extra as a dedicated event space, offers catering services, and reaches customers through a retail shop, home delivery via Wolt and Foodora, and online reservations via Quandoo.

Product overview

Ekberg operates as Finland's oldest bakery, patisserie, and café (established 1852), offering a unified hospitality experience centered around handcrafted baked goods and prepared foods. The core offering consists of Ekberg Café (full-service café with breakfast, lunch, brunch, and à la carte dining), Ekberg Shop (retail bakery and patisserie for take-away), and Ekberg Bakery & Pâtisserie (in-house production). Supporting services include Ekberg Extra (event venue for up to 60 guests), Catering Service (custom menus for celebrations and corporate events), and Home Delivery (via Wolt and Foodora platforms). All products—from fresh breads and pastries to custom wedding cakes—are handmade daily using traditional recipes and quality ingredients, with a 100+ year-old rye bread sourdough starter as a heritage asset.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ekberg Café

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• WoltcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWolt is a food delivery platform partner through which Ekberg products are available for home delivery in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Customers can order bakery products, café items, and prepared foods via the Wolt app or website.
• FoodoracoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFoodora is a food delivery partner providing Ekberg home delivery services in Helsinki. Products including bakery items and prepared foods can be ordered through the Foodora platform.
• TE-palvelut (Finnish Employment Service)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerFinnish public employment service where Ekberg posts job vacancies. Job listings are searchable on the TE-palvelut portal under 'Ekberg 1852'. The partnership provides a channel for recruitment and hiring of bakers, pastry chefs, cooks, and customer service staff.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Fazer: Fazer is Finland's most iconic bakery and confectionery brand and operates a chain of Fazer Cafés across Finland and the Nordics. It is directly comparable as a heritage Finnish bakery brand with integrated café operations, but operates at substantially greater scale than Ekberg.
• Café Engel: Café Engel is a historic Helsinki café located on Senate Square, operating as a traditional Finnish café and brasserie. It is directly comparable to Ekberg as a heritage, sit-down Helsinki café serving similar customers with classic Nordic café fare.
• Café Kappeli: Café Kappeli is one of Helsinki's most famous heritage cafés, located in the Esplanadi park. It serves a similar traditional café menu of coffee, pastries, and meals to a mix of locals and tourists, making it a direct peer for Ekberg's café operation.
• Robert's Coffee: Robert's Coffee is a Finnish coffee shop chain serving coffee, pastries, and light meals across Finland and select international markets. It overlaps with Ekberg's café and coffee business model but competes at the chain, mass-market end of the spectrum.
• Espresso House: Espresso House is a major Nordic coffee shop chain with strong presence in Finland, including Helsinki. It competes with Ekberg for daily coffee and light meal occasions with a more standardized, modern café model.

Broad incumbents

• Pret a Manger: Pret a Manger is an international café chain offering handmade sandwiches, salads, coffee, and baked goods with a strong emphasis on freshly prepared food. It overlaps with Ekberg's café and food-to-go offering as a broader incumbent with standardized operations.
• Maison Kayser: Maison Kayser is a French-founded international bakery-café chain with a strong artisan bread and viennoiserie offering. It is comparable to Ekberg in combining an in-house bakery with sit-down café service, but operates as a multi-national chain rather than a single heritage site.
• Starbucks: Starbucks is the global coffee chain incumbent with locations across Helsinki and Finland. It competes with Ekberg for daily coffee and breakfast occasions, though its standardized model and digital ecosystem differ substantially from Ekberg's heritage bakery-café positioning.

Others

• Paulig: Paulig is a Finnish coffee roaster and food company with a long history and its own café operations. It is comparable as a Finnish heritage food/coffee brand, though its primary business is coffee roasting and B2B rather than direct café-bakery operations.

Regional players

• Stockmann Herkku: Stockmann Herkku is the gourmet food hall and deli operation of Stockmann, Finland's iconic department store chain, located at the Helsinki city center. It is comparable as a Helsinki-based premium food retail and prepared-food destination overlapping with Ekberg's bakery retail and catering customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ekberg1852
• Instagraminstagram.com/ekberg1852
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ekberg-1852-oy-ab

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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