Atria started its third Atria Trainee programme at the beginning of 2017. The programme enables trainees to develop into future experts in sales, marketing and product group management.  The two-year programme has two aspects: learning at work and completing a university-level professional development programme in food economics.

Once again, the programme attracted wide interest, and the number of applications was higher than expected. The future experts selected to participate were Marjut Huttula, Tuomo Tarvainen, Jonatan Rantanen, Jyri Kytöharju and Kati Mäntymaa. Their employment relationships began around the turn of the year, and the professional development programme started in February 2017.