Kiviks Musteri

About Kiviks Musteri

Kiviks Musteri is a fifth-generation Swedish family business based in Kivik on Österlen in southern Sweden. Founded in 1888, it has grown from a small orchard-based operation into a broad food and beverage company built around apples, fruit and berries, with production, sales and visitor experiences closely tied to its own orchards and local landscape.

The company serves both consumers and business customers. Its own brands are sold through retail, direct-to-consumer channels and foodservice, while it also produces for other brands and supplies industrial and bulk customers. Across these channels, Kiviks Musteri positions itself around craftsmanship, quality, nature, and a strong sense of place.

Core Values

• Craftsmanship: The company repeatedly emphasizes careful production, traditional know-how and attention to detail, from orchard management to finished bottle. Its identity is rooted in making products with a strong fruit character and a high standard of quality.
• Sustainability: Kiviks Musteri presents sustainability as part of every step of the value chain, with goals around fossil-free operations, reduced food waste, recyclable packaging, water efficiency and responsible sourcing. It links environmental work directly to product quality and long-term resilience.
• Nature and biodiversity: The orchards are managed in cooperation with nature, with a focus on biodiversity, beneficial insects and healthy soils. The company sees its trees and landscapes as both production assets and ecological contributors.
• Innovation and research: Kiviks Musteri stresses collaboration with universities, researchers and industry partners to improve apple growing, product development and future production methods. It combines tradition with ongoing development.
• Responsibility and safety: Quality, food safety and social responsibility are presented as non-negotiable. The company says it works with certified systems and clear policies to ensure safe products and responsible operations.

Unique Aspects

• Five-generation family ownership: Kiviks Musteri is still family-owned and has been built over five generations, with roots going back to 1888. That long continuity is central to how it presents its credibility and identity.
• Deep orchard integration: The company grows apples in its own orchards in Kivik, Torup and at Solnäs Gård, and says production is closely connected to those orchards. This gives it unusually tight control from cultivation to finished product.
• Strong visitor presence: Beyond manufacturing, Kiviks Musteri operates visitor destinations in Kivik, Solnäs Gård near Lund and Stockholm. These sites extend the brand into retail, hospitality and experience-based engagement.
• Contract production capability: The company offers legoproduktion for external brands, including sourcing, filling, packaging and logistics. That makes it not only a branded producer but also a manufacturing partner for other food and beverage companies.
• Research partnerships: Kiviks Musteri works with universities and research bodies such as Lund University, SLU, RISE, Linköping University, Aarhus University and the Swedish Board of Agriculture on topics including beneficial insects, apple varieties, storage and AI decision support. This is a notable differentiator in a fruit beverage business.
• Sustainability recognition and targets: In its 2025 sustainability report, the company says it ranked first in the beverage category in Sustainability Brand Index and has joined SBTi. It also states goals such as fossil-free operations by 2030 and halving food waste in its own production by 2030.