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
Kevin A. Ohlson Kevin A. Ohlson Kevin A. Ohlson (born March 29, 1960) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Ohlson was born and raised in Sterling, Massachusetts. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1982 from Washington and Jefferson College. He received a Juris Doctorate in 1985 from the University of Virginia School of Law. He was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army in 1986, serving as a judge advocate and paratrooper. In 1990, he served in the Gulf War, earning a Bronze Star. From 1991 to 1997,