Polarbröd is a Swedish bread company. Their head office is in Älvsbyn in northern Sweden. Polarbröd is Sweden's third-largest bread company. Its typical product is a soft compact bread formed into round, flat shapes. It is also noted for ready-made sandwiches produced from such bread and reindeer meat, which was introduced as a product in the 1960s, under the name renklämma.
During the evening of 23 August 2020, a fire started in the company's factory in Älvsbyn. The building could not be saved.[2]
History
Polarbröd's business stretches back five generations. In 1878, Johan Nilsson came to Älvsbyn from Gothenburg, after receiving his master's letter in Piteå. Together with his wife Hilda Nordström, he settled in Älvsbyn and began baking bread for the community's inhabitants and water navvies, who built log driving paths in the area. During the construction of the Northern Main Line, the railway navvies also became customers of the bakery. For the first years Johan Nilsson rented the bakery, but bought it in 1885. After the main line was completed in 1893, the navvies disappeared from the area and sales decreased.[3]