The story
It was founded in 1907 by Nils Hansson Lerum and his wife Kari Hansdotter Ørbech as a small store in Sørheim in Luster Municipality. Since many in the rural community paid with raspberries, they started production of juice in a small factory in 1909. By 1918, the factory was producing tens of thousands of liters of juice and kilograms of jam. In 1919, production was moved to Sogndal Municipality. Coincident with this move, a company was formed as A/S NH Lerums Saftfabrikk. Lerum, which still is family-owned, now consists of two subdivisions, Lerum Konserves and Lerum Fabrikker.
Lerum had an arrangement which ended in 1998 to produce Pepsi products, thereafter opting to produce their own products.
In 2006, Lerum joined other drink manufacturers who were adding sugar-free alternatives, in their case opting for sucralose as a sugar alternative.
As of 2009, the company's products were sold almost exclusively in Norway.
From Wikipedia’s article on Lerum (company), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4