Street names "Myllykaty" and "Myllärinkatu" near the railway station of Vaasa tell that the area must have a long history in milling. And it does. A company named Vaasan Sähkömylly had a modern, electricity operated mill at the place in the beginning of 20th century. After their bankcruptcy in 1920's, the local steam milling company Vaasan Höyrymylly bought the estates and started storing grain there. This company is the ancestor of what is nowadays known as the Vaasan & Vaasan bread giant. Some of the machines were removed and recommissioned at the company's new Toppila mill.

In 1934 the mill got more use, when new machines were installed there and it became a feed factory. This kept the buildings active, but war that the country waged brought a whole new industry branch - manufacturing "military" crisp bread, commonly known as Vanikka - to the area late in 1940. The new bread factory, built adjacent to the mill, was named Leipätehdas II, since the owner company already had one bread factory in town.

Bread manufacturing continued until 1983, when the grown company centralized it's bread production to Kotka. After they yet closed their old mill in the city central, the company no longer has production in the city that's name it carries. Feed production continues today under new management, and it occupies the old bread factory, but not the mill and it's extension wing.