Roodevälja, Estonia

Estonia's largest meat company and the de-facto national producer of verivorst. The first Rakvere slaughterhouse opened in 1890; the modern combinaat was formed in 1944 by merging the town's slaughterhouse with the Bauman and Schenkel sausage works. Now headquartered in Roodevälja just outside Rakvere, with around 1,200 employees and roughly a third of the Estonian meat market. The Rakvere verivorst — pork, blood, pearl barley, marjoram, in pig casing — is what most Estonian households roast on Christmas Eve. Famously, during the Iraq and Afghanistan deployments, the company air-freighted Christmas tins of verivorst to Estonian troops abroad.