04/26/2017
The GranberG Story
In this day and age, news get posted fast, updated fast, and get old fast. Granberg’s story is different. The history of Granberg AS is a long-standing adventure about hard work, the joy of creating and of deep roots and new opportunities.
Out here in our little place of Bjoa,
a tiny village nestling on the hills overlooking the fiords, where honest work, humble conditions and the will to survive is embedded in the DNA of its few inhabitants, our story begun.
It started with a man who had a vision. Paul Granberg dreamed of creating a better life for his family and a safer life for the community. In the fast growing industries of the 60s, he saw and understood the increasing need for hand protection; the welders, the steel workers, the fishermen…Young men, husbands and fathers laboring in the unforgiving harsh conditions of Western Norway.
With two empty hands, a piece of leather from America and the support of his young family, Paul set out to make his dream and his vision to reality. Down at the cellar of his yellow brick house, together with his wife and four children, Paul Granberg sat down to design, cut and sew the first ever Granberg glove. The story of Granberg’s quest for perfection for hand protection had just begun.
The family was soon serving the burgeoning needs for hand protection all over Norway.
