Cecilie Toklum combines Danish design and Italian craftsmanship in her new shoe brand “Toklum”.

Her ambition is to gain the position as the most exclusive Danish shoe brand with a wide international appeal. The way has already been paved to this goal as agents in the US, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Italy and Japan have taken her shoes into their collections.

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FLOWmarket is a design lab that explores what will be the short commodities of the future. Among the goods on the shelves of ‘FLOWmarket’ are inner calmness, pauses, stress killers, clean air, choice takers. The goal is a holistic view of growth, embracing economics and technology as well as social and spiritual aspects.

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Muuto is the first design-based company in Denmark to receive venture capital from Vækstfonden. In less than a year and a half, Muuto’s strong business strategy has enabled this entrepreneurial firm to develop a business idea into an award-winning enterprise with exports to 15 countries.

For Peter Bonnén and Kristian Byrge, founding a company was not only a long-held dream, it was also an opportunity to be ‘at the other side of the table’, as they had both worked with business consultancy, strategy and branding in their previous jobs for major Danish companies, including TDC and Carlsberg.
After months of talks and the development of a business draft, they agreed it was time to take the plunge, and in 2006 they both quit their jobs to launch ‘Muuto’.

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