Galvin Green - Behind The Scenes Photo Gallery

See the best images from our recent trip to to Galvin Green's Swedish HQ

Galvin Green - Behind The Scenes Photo Gallery

Golf Monthly recently travelled out to to the Swedish HQ of Galvin Green to go behind the scenes and meet the people that make the high-performance golf apparel brand tick, here are some of the best images from our trip...

Galvin Green - Behind The Scenes Photo Gallery

The understated, but cool, Galvin Green HQ building in Växjö, southern Sweden (above)

Colour charts show the evolution of Galvin Green collections

The main figures behind the Galvin Green brand. L-R Christian Nilsson (CEO), Mats Lundqvist (Creative Director) and Tomas Nilsson (Owner)

Gustav Höjelid, Quality & Logistics Manager, oversees Galvin Green's ever expanding warehouse operation. He's known by colleagues as 'Thanks Gustav' for his ability to cooly manage the huge logistics operation shipping garments around the globe

The warehouse stores over 150,00 items at any one time and ships over 300,000 products a year - all on the day or day after an order is placed

Galvin Green is the official outerwear supplier to the European Ryder cup team and there's a huge demand for Ryder Cup crested garments

Galvin Green's roots are firmly in Sweden but the brand is expanding into global markets as far afield as USA and Korea

Per Borgillen, WL Gore Key Account Manager. The Galvin Green, WL Gore relationship has run for over 30 years and has allowed Galvin Green to incorporate cutting edge new technologies such as the C-Knit backer into its garments

Rebecka Nilsson is Galvin Green's Trade & Retail Manager overseeing crucial business partnerships

Annelie Backgård Ginstman is Product Manager for the growing Ladies' range

The 2018 Ventil8 shirt collection will feature the widest range of colours and designs Galvin Green has ever produced

The 2018 collections will feature exciting new technologies and designs

A wide range of accessories - from caps to belts - complement each collection

CEO Christian Nilsson has overseen huge growth and the evolution of Galvin Green from niche Scandinavian brand to the leader in high-performance golf apparel

UK & Ireland MD, Greg Pearse, looks after Galvin Green's number one market

Lead designer Henrik Appleholm works to bring style and function to Galvin Green's collections

Ian Kapp, Galvin Green's UK Sales Office Manager co-ordinates the business for a team of seven regional sales agents

UK golf industry stalwart John Collard is CEO of Sports Impact agency who advise Galvin Green on media, PR and marketing activity

Linda Dahlen runs Galvin Green's claims & returns department. The brand boasts a return rate of just 0.8 percent. She aims to solve all returns cases within 24 hours. Often returned Gore-Tex garments are not leaking, they just haven't been cared for according to the instructions and a wash and tumble dry reactivates the waterproof protection

 

Alama Svensson (L) and Fanny Bengtsson (R) are Galvin Green's busy Cresting Team, producing over 20,000 crested garments a year!

Brand Manager Nicolai Stein has redefined Galvin Green's strategy since joining the company in 2012

Tom Burlison is UK & Ireland marketing manager and is responsible for looking after Galvin Green's growing roster of Tour players 

 

Galvin Green's UK Sales team - L-R David Westwood (Midlands), Dave Rigby (South West), Simon Everitt (Home Counties), Jonathan Gallagher (North West), Stuart Macinnes (Scotland), Richard Tinworth (South East) and Bryan Sewell (North East)

Ola Magnusson, sales manager for south Sweden has been with Galvin Green from day 1 

Owner Tomas Nilsson founded Galvin Green in 1990 with a vision to produce golf outwear that performed and looked better than anything else on the market

Brand Manager Nicolai Stein and Charlie Chung from Galvin Green South Korea enjoy a well-earned beer at the party that marks the end of the sales conference. It's a lively evening where everyone from around the world who works for Galvin Green gets together to have some fun.

CEO, Christian Nilsson, and owner, Tomas Nilsson, (no relation) get into spirit of the post-sales conference party

Richard Tinworth, UK sales agent for the South East, gets into Viking mode at the party!

The stunning Växjö Golf Club where many of the Galvin Green team play their golf and go to test prototype garments

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Mike Harris
Content Director

Mike has been a journalist all his working life, starting out as a football writer with Goal magazine in the 1990s before moving into men’s and women’s lifestyle magazines including Men's Health, In 2003 he joined Golf Monthly and in 2006 he became only the eighth editor in Golf Monthly’s 100-plus year history leading the brand until July 2023. He is now Content Director overseeing Golf Monthly and two other iconic sports brands, FourFourTwo and Rugby World.

His three main passions in golf are courses (he's played over 500 courses worldwide), equipment (he's always in search of something shinny to give him an edge) and shoes (he owns more pairs than he cares to mention!).  

Mike’s handicap index hovers at around 10 and he is a member of four golf clubs: Hartley Wintney, Royal Liverpool, Royal North Devon and the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.


Mike's current What's In The Bag? 

Driver: TaylorMade Stealth Plus+ 9° - Fujikura Ventus Blue 5S

Fairway woods: TaylorMade Sim Max 3/15° - Fujikura Ventus Blue 6S & TaylorMade Stealth 7/20° - Fujikura Ventus Red 6S

Utility Iron: TaylorMade Stealth UDI 3/21° - Aldila Ascent 90HY

Irons: TaylorMade P790 (5-PW)  - Nippon Tour NSPro 950S

Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 50°, 54° and 58° - KBS Tour Hi-Rev s2.0 hafts

Putter: Evnroll ER2B (Gravity Grip) 

Ball: TaylorMade Tour Response (Yellow)