Sundnes Brenneri is a Norwegian potato processing plant and

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located in

Inderøy Inderøy is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Straumen. Other villages include Framverran, Gangstadhaugen, Hylla, Kjerknesvågen, Kjer ...

. It produces akvavit, potato chips,

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and mashed potatoes. The plant was started in 1844, four years before private distillation was banned. It is part of the

HOFF Norske Potetindustrier HOFF SA is a Norwegian agricultural cooperative processing and distributing potato produce. The company is owned by 4,000 farmers and has plants in Inderøy (Sundnes Brenneri), Gjøvik, Brumunddal, and Klepp. The company processes one third of th ...

agricultural cooperative. The akvavit production was covered by the import of caraway from

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until 1989 when farmers in Inderøy started caraway production. Today half a square kilometer of caraway is produced in the municipality. The potato for the akvavit has always been locally produced.

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Food and drink companies of Norway Companies based in Trøndelag Inderøy Companies established in 1844 Food and drink companies established in 1844 {{norway-company-stub