Pågen is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 bakery

Bakery

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 company founded in 1878 by Anders and Matilda Påhlsson. The company started off as a little bakery shop in Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

 in the southern province

Provinces of Sweden

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 of Scania

Scania

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. Their bakeries are run by around 1350 employees, and are located in Malmö and Gothenburg

Gothenburg

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. Their products include various types of bread

Bread

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, pasteries

Pastry

Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baked products made from ingredients such as flour, sugar, milk, butter, shortening, baking powder and/or eggs. Small cakes, tarts and other sweet baked products are called "pastries."...

, cookie

Cookie

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s and etc. With key export markets in France

France

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, Great Britain

Great Britain

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 and Belgium

Belgium

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, Pågen is currently one of Sweden's leading food exporters with an annual turnover of around 220 million Euros.

Name

Pågen is a word in the Scanian dialect meaning the boy, definite tense of the word påg meaning boy.

Culture

Pågen marketed the cookies 'Tosca Pågar' as 'Florentine Pogens' in the United States until 1992, and Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

 wrote a song called 'Florentine Pogen', with the opening line "She was the daughter of a wealthy Florentine Pogen", which was released on the album One Size Fits All

One Size Fits All

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