Metsäkustannus
Finnish forestry publishing company

Metsäkustannus Oy is a Finnish company that is specialized to forests. Its main product is Metsälehti magazine. Circulation was 31 701 in 2014.
Also company publishes about 35 books per year.
History
Company is established 1982 but Metsälehti's historia starts from 1933 and its predecessor Tapio magazine, 1907. Company was established with the name Kustannusosakeyhtiö Metsälehti and name was changed to Metsäkustannus Oy in 2005.
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This entry incorporates text from “Metsäkustannus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.