Beskow von Post

What Beskow von Post does

Beskow von Post AB is a Stockholm-based circular design consultancy founded in 2021 by designer Susanne Beskow and systems ecologist Caroline von Post. The company transforms corporate textile waste into new workwear and accessories through a proprietary upcycling methodology, serving Swedish enterprises across healthcare, museums, retail, and textile services. Core technology centers on physically deconstructing discarded garments to create traceable raw materials, with every product designed from the outset for multiple lifecycles and equipped with QR codes documenting material origin.

The company's offering is structured as a suite of service modules including opportunity identification workshops, employee competence building, inventory and needs analysis, and production management, delivered as multi-year consulting engagements priced on a project basis. Named clients include Elis (textile services, ~5 tons of workwear transformed in 2022), Nationalmuseum (circular workwear from healthcare shirts and museum wool remnants, ~50 garments), Hr Björkmans Entrémattor (uniforms for 60 employees, 11 garments), Sophiahemmet, Systebolaget, Taiga, and Textilia. A complementary product line of pre-designed upcycled base products (e.g., branded bucket hats and bags) serves organizations that lack their own textile waste streams. Production is outsourced to Swedish social enterprises.

Go-to-market is entirely B2B direct enterprise sales with no consumer channel, with lead generation driven by Swedish design and sustainability press coverage, case studies, and award visibility. The company has won Design S 2023 (Swedish Design Awards, Textile category) and Sveriges Tvätteriförbunds Hållbarhetspris 2024. With 1-10 employees, no disclosed institutional funding, and operations limited to Sweden, the business is positioned to benefit materially from a Swedish law effective January 1, 2025 prohibiting textile disposal, which converts sustainability positioning into regulatory compliance demand.

Name

Beskow von Post

Legal name

Beskow von Post AB

Website

https://beskowvonpost.se

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stockholm-based circular design consultancy founded in 2021 that transforms corporate textile waste into traceable, multi-lifecycle workwear for Swedish enterprises across healthcare, museums, retail, and textile services, delivered as project-based B2B consulting engagements by a designer-biologist founding duo.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockholm

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Custom Circular Workwear Design Services: End-to-end design and production services where Beskow von Post works with corporate clients to transform their textile waste into new workwear. Includes consulting, design, prototyping, and production management from concept to delivery.
2. Branded Upcycled Base Products: Pre-designed upcycled base products (such as bucket hats and bags made from discarded chef shirts) that can be branded with client logos and messages for organizations that do not have their own textiles to upcycle.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Beskow von Post provides custom circular workwear design and upcycling services that transform enterprise textile waste into new garments and accessories. Engagements cover consulting, design, prototyping, and socially sustainable production management from concept to delivery. The company also offers pre-designed upcycled base products (such as bucket hats and bags made from discarded chef shirts) that can be branded with client logos for organizations without their own textile streams.

Product overview

Beskow von Post is a circular design consultancy offering a comprehensive suite of upcycling services for textiles. Their core offering includes consulting services (opportunity identification workshops, competence building, inventory and needs analysis) combined with socially sustainable production and upcycled base products. The company specializes in transforming discarded textiles into designed workwear and uniforms, helping clients close textile loops. Products include the award-winning 'From Waste to Wonder' jacket and various circular workwear collections designed for multiple lifecycles. All production is handled with consideration for people and often involves social enterprises.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Elis received nearly five tons of discarded workwear in 2022 that was transformed into new products
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• NationalmuseumcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 January 2025Design of circular workwear for museum front staff using discarded medical shirts from healthcare sector and leftover wool fabrics from museum's own resources. Collection includes approximately 50 garments, with collaboration involving multiple Swedish small-scale producers.
• Hr Björkmans EntrémattorcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 March 2023Two-year collaboration to design and produce circular workwear for Hr Björkmans' 60 employees. 11 different garments designed for long life using deadstock fabrics, biodegradable fibers, and recycled materials. Each garment includes QR code for material origin and upcycling information.
• EliscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 February 2023Circular collaboration where Beskow von Post receives discarded workwear from Elis (formerly Berendsen) and transforms it into new workwear and value-creating products. Each jacket is made from approximately 5 pairs of discarded work trousers. The partnership extends the life of textiles, saving energy, chemicals, and water compared to virgin material production.
• TaigaminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Within TexChain 3 project - helping Taiga inventory and map what happens with discarded workwear, how garments can be improved for longer life, and how materials could be reused in new products. Project aims to create new cross-industry value chains for industrial textile waste processing.
• TextiliaminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Spin-off from Sophiahemmet project - created organization at Textilia in Denmark where they handle their own textile waste independently. See www.upcy.dk.
• SophiahemmetminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Vinnova-funded pilot project 'Circular Laundries' creating circular business model where retired textiles owned by laundry were redesigned into new products. Created value for both Textilia laundry and Sophiahemmet.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Renewcell: Swedish textile-to-textile recycling company (Circulose process) producing dissolving pulp from old cotton garments; an emerging Swedish player in textile circularity whose feedstock (used textiles) overlaps with Beskow von Post's input streams, though at industrial scale via material output rather than finished apparel.
• Circ: US-based emerging player commercializing technology to separate and recover polyester and cellulose from blended textile waste for reuse; adjacent technology provider whose recycled feedstock could complement or compete with upcycling approaches in the textile circularity value chain.

Direct peers

• Teemill: UK-based circular apparel company producing organic cotton t-shirts and sweatshirts from recycled materials with take-back recycling; comparable as a circular-fashion DTC brand applying closed-loop design at scale in Europe.
• MUD Jeans: Dutch circular denim brand operating a Lease A Jeans circularity program and using post-consumer recycled cotton; comparable as a European circular apparel business applying closed-loop design principles with traceability.
• Bleed Clothing: German sustainable apparel brand producing circular, fair-trade clothing from organic and recycled materials with closed-loop design principles; comparable European sustainable apparel peer with a similar small-team, design-led approach.
• The Renewal Workshop: US-based B2B circular textile company that partners with apparel brands to take back unsellable inventory and damaged returns, sorting into repair, upcycle, or recycle streams; closest direct analog to Beskow von Post's enterprise upcycling service model.
• Nudie Jeans: Swedish circular fashion brand offering free lifetime repairs and recycling of denim; comparable as a Sweden-based circular apparel company that designs for longevity and closed-loop textile flows, though focused on consumer denim rather than B2B workwear.

Broad incumbents

• Patagonia (Worn Wear): US outdoor brand operating Worn Wear, a trade-in, repair, and resale program built around circular product design; broad incumbent whose circularity infrastructure and product-for-longevity philosophy aligns with Beskow von Post's design-for-multiple-lives approach.
• Stella McCartney: Global luxury fashion brand with a longstanding commitment to circular and sustainable design; broad incumbent whose circular-design communications and luxury positioning provide a market reference point for designer-led circularity.
• Eileen Fisher (Renew program): US apparel brand operating a take-back and resale/upcycle program (Renew) for its own garments; a broader incumbent demonstrating how an established fashion company vertically integrates circular design and resale as part of its brand strategy.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/beskow-von-post

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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