Aspire Brands Europe
Øystein Karlsen has extensive experience in operations and logistics, currently serving as Operations Director at Aspire Brands Europe since August 2014, where previous roles included General Manager Operations and Supply Chain Manager. Prior experience includes positions such as Logistics Manager and Logistic Coordinator at Cermaq Norway AS from March 2012 to June 2014, as well as a temporary Logistics Manager role at Fjordland from May 2011 to February 2012. Earlier in the career, Øystein worked as a Sales Analyst at Stabburet AS and held various logistics-related positions at Plantasjen ASA and Plantasjen Norge AS, starting from November 2002. Øystein completed education at Frederik II vgs from 1995 to 1998.
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Aspire Brands Europe
Aspire Brands is a strategic distribution company. We partner with passionate brand owners to grow the value of their brand. Aspire provides the expertise to strengthen sales, build brand equity and expand distribution. With decades of beauty industry know-how, Aspire builds, runs and grows dynamic, profitable beauty brands in the Nordics, Baltics and BeNeLux. Our Head Office is based in Fredrikstad, Norway but we believe that it is important to be close to the market so we have offices in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Rotterdam to secure continued development of the brands in the marketplace. We mainly focus on three categories: face care, hair care and body care, but we have some projects within the fragrance category as well. We supply all the major retails in our markets and are proud to work closely with chains like Vita, Kicks, Åhlens, H&M, Etos, Kruidvat, DI, Matas, Sokos, Stockmann, Kronans Apotek, ICA and COOP to mention a few. Our brand portfolio: Batiste, Tangle Teezer, Real Techniques, Hero, The Breath Co, Femfresh, Blossom, EcoTools, WOWBROW, O'Keeffe's, Invisibobble, Elegant Touch, Eylure, WAGS