Ten Points AB is a Swedish family-owned footwear brand based at Importgatan 4 in Ängelholm (org. no. 556786-8756) that has been in the shoe business for more than 40 years and has had its shoes handmade in Portugal since 1983. The company sells across the Nordics and Europe from Sweden while its production, and a Portuguese entity, Ten Points Unipessoal Lda, sit in Portugal’s northern footwear cluster.
Ten Points describes itself on its own site as “a Swedish footwear brand and a family company that has been in the shoe business for over 40 years”, proud of “our Swedish heritage and shoes that have been handmade in Portugal since 1983”. The commercial company is Ten Points AB of Ängelholm in Skåne (org. no. 556786-8756), which runs the brand’s web shop in Swedish, English and German and ships across the EU; the manufacturing side is Portuguese, and the group appears in the Luso-Swedish Chamber of Commerce catalogue through a local entity, Ten Points, Unipessoal, Lda.
The brand’s product story is built around the Portuguese factory: shoes in chrome-free, vegetable-tanned leather, designed in Sweden and made by hand in Portugal, sold through Nordic retailers and directly online. The company’s site also carries a “Project Norte 2020” page, the standard disclosure for a company that has received support under Portugal’s Norte 2020 regional operational programme, which points to investment in the Portuguese operation rather than a pure sourcing relationship.
Ten Points is one of the older examples of the model that Swedish and Danish fashion brands have adopted in numbers since — design and brand in the Nordics, production in the shoe and garment districts of northern Portugal. Forty-plus years of continuous Portuguese manufacturing, a registered Portuguese company and EU regional funding make it a durable rather than opportunistic presence, and a reference case for Nordic brands weighing a move from arm’s-length sourcing to their own Portuguese entity.
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