Stiga

Stiga is a Swedish brand known for the production and international distribution of lawnmowers, a wide range of motorized garden tools, snowmakers, table tennis products and table hockey games. Stiga started the production of table tennis products in 1944. It started the production of table hockey games in 1957 and it was a huge success. The company started the production of lawnmowers in 1958. Stiga is currently selling both game/sport products and gardening tools. Stiga Table Tennis left the company in 1984, and so did Stiga Play in 2006. They still use the same brand name but are two different companies, Stiga Sports Ltd and Global Garden Products (GGP).

History

STIGA Garden

Stiga is a premium brand of lawn mowers and of a wide range of powered garden equipment. The brand is part of the company GGP Group, a leading manufacturer of garden products in Europe and beyond. The company has its headquarter in Castelfranco Veneto, Treviso (Italy), and has 13 subsidiaries in Europe (Austria, Italy, Benelux, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Sweden, UK, Balkans). Stiga distributes and sells its products in over 70 countries around the world.

Products:

STIGA Sports

The brand Stiga is today used by the Swedish company Stiga Sports for the production of sports products, including table tennis, snowriders and table hockey. The brand Stiga started in 1938 the production of table tennis products and began making hockey games in 1944. Bengt Bandstigen founded the table tennis company BANDA in 1966, which later became STIGA Sports AB. In 1983 the company begun to sell STIGA table tennis products and year 2006 it acquired the STIGA Games division to the company.

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