Voivienti-osuusliike Valio r.l, or 'Butter Export Cooperative Valio'. The company was originally based in Hanko and the most important market was England.

Valio's activities expanded from butter to other dairy products in 1909. Exports of products such as processed cheese to Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, Norway, Belgium and the United States began in the 1920s and expanded rapidly during that decade. In