Otto Mønsted

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Otto Mønsted and the margarine brand 

1883 was the year in which the Danish industrialist and inventor, Otto Mønsted, had a breakthrough with the margarine, and thus the margarine factory named Aarhus Butterine Company. In addition to being so dedicated that he spent all of his own wealth and savings, Otto Mønsted also got a loan from his father-in-law. All of this he did just in the hopes of breaking through with his margarine project – his dream. And it is sure to say that he succeeded to top grades.

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Otto Mønsted later became the so-called “Margarine King” of Denmark and in 1888 he opened his first factory in Godley, near Manchester, England. Some years later, in 1894, he even built a permanent margarine work in Southall, London. The Otto Mønsted margarine company was renamed Otto Mønsted Arhus in 1909 – better known by the abbreviation OMA – and the OMA margarine brand became more and more famous in Denmark over time.