Varberg footwear brand founded in the early 1970s by Mats Nilsson and Marie Nilsson Peterzén, producing about 1.3 million pairs of shoes and accessories a year with a design studio and prototype workshop at its Swedish head office; 186 employees and SEK 806 million of revenue in 2024, with own stores in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Berlin and Helsinki. In Portugal, Vagabond Global AB holds a registered permanent representation (NIF 980732778) at Rua Professor Bento de Jesus Caraça 248, Sala 1, 4200-128 Porto, filed under CAE 15201 (footwear manufacture) — a product office in the northern shoe cluster where the founders learned the trade in the 1980s.
Varberg footwear brand founded in the early 1970s by Mats Nilsson and Marie Nilsson Peterzén, producing about 1.3 million pairs of shoes and accessories a year with a design studio and prototype workshop at its Swedish head office; 186 employees and SEK 806 million of revenue in 2024, with own stores in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Berlin and Helsinki. In Portugal, Vagabond Global AB holds a registered permanent representation (NIF 980732778) at Rua Professor Bento de Jesus Caraça 248, Sala 1, 4200-128 Porto, filed under CAE 15201 (footwear manufacture) — a product office in the northern shoe cluster where the founders learned the trade in the 1980s.
Vagabond Shoemakers 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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