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Food company takeover

A famous food company of Norway taking over MTR Foods tickled my funny bone. It could be that they wanted to add variety to the exotic Norwegian condiments what ever they might be ( what do they add to make reindeer meat taste better - Paste of Rhododendron flower ? Mashed paste of bark of conifers ? ) It would have been fun watching team of Chief Innovation officer and Business Manager for new products and markets of the Norwegian company inspecting machines grinding sambar powder and rasam powder wearing space suit like contraptions ( if these powders are third party sub contracted products of MTR, then they would have been at Seshadripuram inspecting the rickety machines operated in the homes of Krishna mama, Lakshmi mami etc ). They would have spent hours going to through SOPs and Quality Systems. The top brass would have spent days redefining Vision and Mission statements which would have been rendered hazy and blurred ( literally and figuratively ) by sambar and rasam powde