Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
The company had its beginnings in Norway when Captain Helly Juell Hansen and his wife Maren Margarethe started making water resistant clothing for those who worked at sea by soaking linen in linseed oil. In the early 1900s they started producing leisure wear, camping and sailing gear. During the 1940s the company developed new methods of producing water resistant clothing, introducing PVC to the process which they named Linox and Helox.
From the 1960s Helly Hansen began making thermal underwear and in 1970 developed the Lifa® base layer. In 1984 they launched Helly Tech®, a waterproof, windproof and breathable fabric. In the 1990s the label began to be adopted by different subcultures. In the United Kingdom the brand was worn by teenagers in the north of England as streetwear, in Germany skin heads appropriated the HH logo, and in the US black Americans on the east coast integrated Helly Hansen into hip hop style.
From the early 2000s the company focussed on their products for outdoor sports including sailing, skiing and mountaineering.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Maintained by
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Grailed website brand history