Holmen Crisp won the Business Development Award 2019

Holmen Crisp is a family business that runs a gluten-free mill on Kapp in Østre Toten and has developed the Jytte series of gluten-free products in addition to traditional baked goods. On Friday 16 October 2019, the family business Holmen Crisp received the Business Development Award for Oppland 2019.

- The business development award in agriculture aims to highlight and honor innovative companies in agriculture. There is a driving development and great diversity within Norwegian agriculture today. Holmen Crisp is a good example of this with its exciting and in-demand products, says Agriculture and Food Minister Olaug Bollestad.

- Holmen Crisp AS runs an exciting business with a good combination of tradition and innovation. The company's ambition to pass on food culture through real and natural products based on local and healthy ingredients impressed the jury, says department head Anne Mette Iversen in Innovation Norway Innlandet.

It is Camilla Rostad who runs and owns the mill at Toten and is the 3rd generation in the family business, Holmen Crisp. She produces traditional baked goods using carefully selected local ingredients and in the gluten-free mill, Jytte flour is ground from natural ingredients that contain good nutrients, which are especially important for those with a gluten allergy. Camilla is also working on a buckwheat venture.

- It feels great to receive such recognition for the work to safeguard Norwegian food culture and traditions. This is an award I share with many, both previous generations and not least my husband who is and has been an important key person and inspiration in the development of Holmen Crisp. We are both very interested in pioneering work and innovation as well as utilizing the natural resources we have at Toten through honest, healthy and tasty products and food experiences. I am incredibly proud and humbled by this award and it inspires the further work to develop Holmen Crisp both at home and abroad, says Camilla Rostad.