Clas Ohlson company was founded in 1918 by the technically minded Clas Ohlson (1895–1979), as a mail order business based in the Swedish village of Insjön, Dalarna. Initially, only manuals and technical literature were sold, thus allowing people who lived in rural communities to obtain literature that would otherwise be unavailable. He opened his first shop in Insjön in 1926, but it was not until 1989, when the company opened a store in a shopping centre in central Stockholm, that it expanded into the retail business. The first store outside Sweden was opened 1991 in Oslo in Norway and in 1999, the
Chris Ohlson Chris Ohlson Chris Ohlson (born August 24, 1975) is an American film producer and director based in Austin, Texas. He is best known for his work on "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter", "The Overbrook Brothers" and "Thank You a Lot". Ohlson is the 2015 Independent Spirit Piaget Producers Award winner, a 2013 Creative Producing Fellow of The Sundance Institute, and an alum of IFP's Narrative Lab Program. Ohlson’s first film as a producer, John Bryant’s "The Overbrook Brothers", screened in competition at SXSW in 2009. The film went on to play at numerous festivals around the world before being distributed by