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Viking Direct, trading as Viking, is a European office supply mail order and online company based in Europe. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, and Germany and operates in a number of European countries. It's United Kingdom headquarter is in Leicester and it Netherlands headquarter is in Venlo and is registered in ...
The company was established by Torstein Hagen in St. Petersburg, Russia as Viking River Cruises in 1997. Hagen had become involved in cruising as a McKinsey and Company consultant who helped the Holland America Line survive the 1973 oil crisis, then was CEO of the Royal Viking Line from 1980 to 1984, made money in the Russian private equity markets, then bought a controlling stake in a Dutch ...
Fulgor's global headquarters are located in Rosa, Italy; near Bassano Del Grappa in Italy's Veneto Region. The company's products compete with those made by companies Sub-Zero, Bosch, Thermador, Dacor, Miele, Viking Range, or Smeg. [1]
Viking Range Corporation is an American appliance company that manufactures kitchen appliances for residential and commercial use. Today the company offers three complete lines of premium appliances including cooking , ventilation, kitchen clean-up and refrigeration , as well as various outdoor appliances. [ 1 ]
SVP was formed when Kohlberg & Company, an American private equity firm that owned the Swedish VSM Group (owner of the Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff sewing machine brands), combined VSM with Singer, [5] which it acquired in 2004 for $134 million. [6] The company was founded in 2006 [2] and was formerly headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda. [7]
Birka listen ⓘ (Birca in medieval sources), on the island of Björkö (lit. "Birch Island") in present-day Sweden, was an important Viking Age trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as many parts of Continental Europe and the Orient. [1]
Jomsborg or Jómsborg (German: Jomsburg) was a semi-legendary Viking stronghold at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea (medieval Wendland, modern Pomerania), that existed between the 960s and 1043. Its inhabitants were known as Jomsvikings .
An archaeological study of production and distribution in the Viking period and the Middle Ages. Doctoral thesis from the University of Bergen. Carelli, P. and Kresten, P. 1997: Give us this day our daily bread. A study of Late Viking Age and Medieval Quernstones in South Scandinavia. Acta Archaeologica, 68, 109–137.