Storage tin Wasa crackers

Storage tin Wasa crackers. 

Tin box for Wasa Crackers with images of ripe grain.

• Manufacturer: Thomassen & Drijver Verblifa
• Manufacturing date: 1985/1999

Description
Storage tin for WASA crispbread in the main colors yellow and blue. This tin has a loose lid with a wide edge and is decorated with ripe grain on the lid and sides.

Text on long sides in orange with orange crown: 1919. Text on short sides: Since 1919, Wasa crispbread has been baked according to the traditional Swedish recipe.

Condition
This tin is in a vintage condition with traces of use, especially at the corners.

Size

• Height: 12.5 cm.
• Length: 19 cm.
• Width: 8 cm.

Wasa. 
The Swedish company Wasabröd is the largest producer in the world of Scandinavian style crisp bread (Swedish: knäckebröd). The Wasabröd company has been in business since 1919, opening its first bakery in the city of Skellefteå. Since 1983 it has been under foreign ownership, first by the Swiss pharmaceutical corporation Sandoz (later merged with Ciba Geigy to become Novartis), and from 1999 by the Italian food producer Barilla Alimentare S.p.A.. 

The first bakery in Skellefteå, founded by Karl Edvard Lundström, was supplemented by another, completely mechanized, one in Filipstad in 1931, which has since become the main seat of the corporation. It later acquired several other Swedish bakeries. It started exporting bread in the 1940s, with the first foreign subsidiary founded in Denmark in 1965 and the first foreign bakery built in Celle in Germany in 1967. In the early 21st century Wasabröd sells about 80% of its production outside Sweden. 

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