Hestra

Hands come first at Hestra. For 80 years, we have been developing gloves that provide warmth, protection, and fingertip sensitivity in the most varied conditions. Today, our range comprises more than 400 styles. It may sound a lot, but people and hands are different. That’s why different gloves are needed. Everything that we do today has grown out of the timber forests of the uplands in the Swedish province of Småland. That is where Martin Magnusson and his family settled and where he began making gloves in 1936. Magnusson set up his workshop in a farmhouse and started making gloves for the local lumberjacks. In 1937, a ski slope was created nearby, and as its popularity grew, Magnusson saw a new market for his high-quality, durable gloves. His sons, Lars-Olof and Göte, became keen skiers and started working in the family business in their teens.

Over the years, the word about our gloves spread to places beyond the village that gave us our name. Sweden became a nation of enthusiastic skiers and the sport’s popularity grew in the 1960s. With their avid interest in skiing, Lars-Olof, Göte, and their brother-in-law Lennart made sure that Hestra jumped on the bandwagon.

Since then, two more generations of the Magnusson family have entered the company; Svante and Claes, who grew up among skis and gloves, and now their sons, Niklas, Anton, and Jonas too.
Today, Hestra has a presence in over 25 countries, although we now have five factories and manufacture gloves for sports, fashion, and professional uses, nothing has changed.

The focus remains on hands and gloves. And Hestra is still our home.