SINGAPORE - While the Lakerol pastille can be found in countries all over the world today, the very first boxes were produced and sold in the Swedish city of Gavle, north of Stockholm, when Swedish wholesaler Adolf Alhgren began flavouring mixtures of menthol, liquorice and gum arabic back in 1909.
More than a century later, Singapore-based sustainable design firm, Pomeroy Studio, is helping to turn the historic Lakerol candy factory in Gavle into an environmentally friendly and socially inclusive public housing project.
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