Our Mission

It is our mission to enhance work life performance and well being to the benefit of workers as well as the companies they work for.


We intend to do so with a strong sense of pride in our products, our heritage and in the people and companies who use our garments. We have a passion for work, workers and work wear. We will harness this passion to develop and manufacture high quality, functional, comfortable work wear that will improve performance and increase well-being in workers worldwide.

 

What drives us

Thousands of years and hundreds of civilizations can’t be wrong: working always has and always will be an integral part of who we are as people, and what makes us tick. There’s a natural drive in all of us to:

• Do the right thing
• Create, be useful and be productive
• Do a good job

Here at Kansas, we follow our instincts by believing we are what we do.  And we do it with pride and passion.

Our Brand Values

Five brand values are at the core of Kansas:

Pride - in what we do: providing quality products and services to hard working men and women
Passion - being passionate about work, workers and work wear
Performance - improving the performance of the users of our products by performing our best
Style - providing a simplistic functional design that has both contemporary relevance and can stand the test of time
Quality - in the products themselves, and in the level of service, ethical choices, accountability and consistency we provide in order to build a brand you can trust.

2010

Kansas work wear is sold all across Europe and is Denmark’s most recognizable work wear brand

2007

Cotton Group is acquired providing the group with a strong position in promotion wear

2005

Kwintet is bought up by Industri Kapital. IC, Norway is bought up and Acode is introduced

2004

The group is divided into divisions

2003

The group changes name from Kansas Wenaas to Kwintet Group

2000

Merger with Ehco-KLM, Holland and buy up of Lafont, France to form the Kansas Wenaas Group

1999

Merger with Wenaas, Norway

1997

Buy up of Djupvik, Norway

1996

Buy up of Leijona, Finland

1995

Kansas acquires Fristads, the leading Swedish work wear manufacturer and an era of international expansion begins

1986

Kansas acquires a portfolio of businesses and companies

1984

Kansas survives challenges of the two previous decades, proudly becoming a listed company

1970

Kansas outgrows the Palogaarden premises and moves to a new site at Munkebjergvej

1952

Larsen launches KANSAS, an innovative new brand of pure cotton work wear

1947

Poul Larsen moves the company to new premises in Odense and names it ‘Palogaarden’

1934

Simon Larsen takes over after Stenstrup’s retirement. He names the factory ‘Palo’.

1920

Hr. Stenstrup opens a small clothing workshop from his red brick house in Odense