Results for “Finland”

Goodyear & Bridgestone 🇺🇸🇯🇵 non-EU

American and Japanese rubber on European roads.

• Michelin Clermont-Ferrand since 1889, and it invented the radial tyre. 🇫🇷
• Continental Hanover since 1871. 🇩🇪
• Nokian Tyres Nokia, Finland — it invented the winter tyre in 1934. 🇫🇮
• Semperit Austrian since 1824, now a Continental brand. 🇦🇹

Domino's & Pizza Hut 🇺🇸 non-EU

American pizza delivery, in the countries that invented pizza.

• Telepizza Madrid-founded, the biggest non-US pizza chain in Europe. 🇪🇸
• Kotipizza Finland's chain — one of its pizzas won a world championship. 🇫🇮
• Vapiano German fresh-pasta-and-pizza concept, cooked in front of you. 🇩🇪
• PizzaExpress London since 1965. 🇬🇧

McDonald's & Burger King 🇺🇸 non-EU

Two American burger chains on every European high street.

• Hesburger Finland's own, and it beats McDonald's at home. The mayonnaise is the point. 🇫🇮
• MAX Burgers Swedish, climate-labels every item on the menu. 🇸🇪
• Quick The Franco-Belgian chain, since 1971. 🇫🇷
• Goiko Madrid-born burger chain, now across Spain. 🇪🇸

Tabasco & Frank's RedHot 🇺🇸 non-EU

Louisiana and Missouri, on European tables.

• Kühne Hamburg since 1722. Mustards, sauces and pickles. 🇩🇪
• Develey Bavarian family mustard house. 🇩🇪
• Verstegen Rotterdam spices and sauces, family-owned. 🇳🇱
• Santa Maria Swedish, part of Paulig of Finland. 🇸🇪

Norton / McAfee 🇺🇸 non-EU

The antivirus that came with the laptop.

• ESET Bratislava-built, consistently top-rated, light on resources. 🇸🇰
• Bitdefender Bucharest security vendor that regularly tops independent tests. 🇷🇴
• G DATA Bochum vendor that wrote one of the first antivirus products, in 1987. 🇩🇪
• WithSecure Helsinki enterprise security, formerly F-Secure Business. 🇫🇮

Pringles & Lay's 🇺🇸 non-EU

Kellanova and PepsiCo own the crisp shelf.

• funny-frisch German crisps from Intersnack, since 1965. 🇩🇪
• Chio Also Intersnack. The tortilla chips are the good ones. 🇩🇪
• Croky Belgian crisps, paprika flavour is a national position. 🇧🇪
• Estrella Swedish, and the dill flavour makes sense once you try it. 🇸🇪

Oreo & Chips Ahoy 🇺🇸 non-EU

Mondelez biscuits, everywhere.

• Bahlsen Hanover since 1889, still family-owned. Leibniz butter biscuits. 🇩🇪
• Lotus Biscoff The speculoos from Lembeke that conquered coffee saucers worldwide. 🇧🇪
• Delacre Belgian biscuits since 1891. 🇧🇪
• Griesson - de Beukelaer German family biscuit maker. 🇩🇪

Amazon Web Services 🇺🇸 non-EU

The default cloud, and the default lock-in.

• Hetzner German servers at prices that make US clouds look like a rounding error. 🇩🇪
• OVHcloud Europe's largest hoster, with full sovereign-cloud offerings. 🇫🇷
• Scaleway French cloud with managed Kubernetes, object storage and GPUs. 🇫🇷
• IONOS Cloud German enterprise cloud with ISO-certified EU data centres. 🇩🇪

Strava 🇺🇸 non-EU

Your training log, and a map of where you live.

• komoot Potsdam route planning for cycling and hiking, still the best in Europe. Acquired by Bending Spoons of Milan in 2025. 🇩🇪
• adidas Running Linz-built Runtastic, now adidas Running. 🇦🇹
• Sports Tracker Finnish tracker with roots in Nokia research. 🇫🇮
• bergfex Austrian mountain sports tours, weather and snow reports. 🇦🇹

Firebase 🇺🇸 non-EU

Backend-as-a-service, backed by Google's roadmap.

• Aiven Helsinki-run managed Postgres, Kafka, Redis and more, in any EU region. 🇫🇮
• Clever Cloud Managed databases and add-ons alongside your app. 🇫🇷
• Nhost Swedish open-source Firebase alternative on Postgres and GraphQL. 🇸🇪
• Scaleway Managed Postgres, serverless SQL and object storage. 🇫🇷

iPhone, Samsung Galaxy & Xiaomi 🇺🇸🇰🇷🇨🇳 non-EU

Premium phones, none of them made here.

• Fairphone Amsterdam-built modular, repairable phone with an 8-year support promise. 🇳🇱
• HMD Espoo-based maker of Nokia phones, including repairable models. 🇫🇮
• SHIFTPHONE German repairable phones with a deposit-return scheme. 🇩🇪
• Nothing London design-led Android phones. 🇬🇧

Cutco, Global & Shun 🇺🇸🇯🇵 non-EU

One knife, used every day, kept for thirty years.

• Wüsthof Solingen since 1814, still family-owned and still forged there. 🇩🇪
• Zwilling Solingen since 1731. One of the oldest trademarks in the world. 🇩🇪
• Victorinox Ibach. The Swiss Army knife company also makes the kitchen knife most professional kitchens actually own. 🇨🇭
• Opinel Savoie since 1890. Beechwood handle, absurdly good value. 🇫🇷

Android / iOS 🇺🇸 non-EU

Two American companies, one duopoly, every European pocket.

• /e/OS by Murena French de-Googled Android, shipped on phones you can just buy. Still built on Google's AOSP underneath. 🇫🇷
• Sailfish OS Jolla's Finnish mobile OS, with EU sovereignty as an explicit goal. 🇫🇮
• Ubuntu Touch UBports Foundation's convergent mobile Linux. 🇳🇱
• postmarketOS German-led project putting real Linux on old phones. Still alpha on most handsets — not yet a daily driver. 🇩🇪

Hershey's, Mars & Mondelez 🇺🇸 non-EU

Three American groups own most of the confectionery aisle.

• Ritter Sport Waldenbuch, family-owned, square, and militant about it. 🇩🇪
• Lindt & Sprüngli Zurich, 1845. Owns its whole chain from bean to bar. 🇨🇭
• Ferrero Alba, Piedmont. Family-owned, Nutella, Rocher, Kinder. 🇮🇹
• Neuhaus Brussels, and the inventor of the praline in 1912. 🇧🇪

Fitbit, Apple Watch & Whoop 🇺🇸 non-EU

Continuous health data, exported continuously.

• Withings Paris health devices: watches, scales, blood pressure, EU data hosting. 🇫🇷
• Polar Finnish sports watches; the company that invented the heart rate monitor. 🇫🇮

Uber Eats / DoorDash 🇺🇸🇫🇮 non-EU

Delivery economics, imported.

• Just Eat Takeaway Amsterdam group behind Lieferando, Thuisbezorgd and Just Eat. 🇳🇱
• Glovo Barcelona multi-category delivery across southern and eastern Europe. 🇪🇸
• Bolt Food Estonian delivery arm of Bolt. 🇪🇪