Family-owned Norwegian orthopaedic and comfort footwear brand founded in 1957 by Dagfinn Klaveness (Klaveness Footwear AS, org. no. 913419561, Lingelemveien 65, 3225 Sandefjord; 16 employees). Its shoes are designed in Norway and made in Portugal by Klaveness Footwear, S.A. (NIF 501973672, Rua Venceslau Ramos 64, 4430-929 Avintes, Vila Nova de Gaia; CAE 15201 footwear manufacture); a related company, Team Klaveness – Produtos Ortopédicos, Unipessoal, Lda (NIF 504525905), is registered at the same Avintes postcode, and the brand’s historic Norwegian maker, Klaveness Skofabrikk AS, is registered with the Portuguese tax authority (NIF 980178398).
Family-owned Norwegian orthopaedic and comfort footwear brand founded in 1957 by Dagfinn Klaveness (Klaveness Footwear AS, org. no. 913419561, Lingelemveien 65, 3225 Sandefjord; 16 employees). Its shoes are designed in Norway and made in Portugal by Klaveness Footwear, S.A. (NIF 501973672, Rua Venceslau Ramos 64, 4430-929 Avintes, Vila Nova de Gaia; CAE 15201 footwear manufacture); a related company, Team Klaveness – Produtos Ortopédicos, Unipessoal, Lda (NIF 504525905), is registered at the same Avintes postcode, and the brand’s historic Norwegian maker, Klaveness Skofabrikk AS, is registered with the Portuguese tax authority (NIF 980178398).
Klaveness Footwear sits inside the Portugal ↔ Scandinavia business corridor that NorthSouth HQ tracks every day. Its operations are a data point in the broader story of how capital, goods, people and ideas flow between Portugal and the Nordics — a corridor that is accelerating in 2026.
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