Northern Grips
Northern Grips is a small privately held Finnish company founded in 2019 in Helsinki, focused on winter pedestrian safety under the tagline 'Making Winter Walking Safer.' It operates with 1–10 employees; specific product details, pricing, and customers are not publicly documented.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2019
- HeadquartersHelsinki, Finland
- Headcount1–10
- GTM typeB2C
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
Northern Grips firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Northern Grips
- Website
- https://northerngrips.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2019
- Headcount range
- 1–10 employees
- Short description
- Northern Grips is a small privately held Finnish company founded in 2019 in Helsinki, focused on winter pedestrian safety under the tagline 'Making Winter Walking Safer.' It operates with 1–10 employees; specific product details, pricing, and customers are not publicly documented.
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- akta.pro rank
Northern Grips industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Winter Footwear Traction Devices
- NAICS
- Shoe Retailers (4582)
- SIC
- Retail-Shoe Stores (5661)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Outdoor Clothing & Footwear Retail (Camping/Hiking/Climbing) (CRAMAMAK)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- Outdoor & Hiking Footwear (CRAAACAD)
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Where Northern Grips is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Helsinki
- HQ country
- Finland
- HQ region
- Europe
Markets served
Northern Grips business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2C
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel
Northern Grips product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Northern Grips designs, produces, and sells physical traction/anti-slip products for footwear intended to make walking safer on icy and snowy winter surfaces. The company operates as a small Helsinki-based product brand with the explicit mission of "Making Winter Walking Safer."
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Companies that use Northern Grips
Customer profileIdeal customer profiles1 record
Northern Grips technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
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Northern Grips competitors and assessment
Company assessmentEmerging players
- Kurgo Step-N-Strobe: Kurgo offers winter-walking and dog-walking safety products with traction elements; an emerging-player peer in the broader winter pedestrian-safety retail category where Northern Grips competes.
Direct peers
- ICEtrekkers: ICEtrekkers produces winter traction products (Diamond Grip, Pro Series) for ice and snow, with comparable form factor and end use to Northern Grips' inferred product line of grip-on footwear traction aids.
- Yaktrax: Yaktrax is the most recognized brand of ice-grippers and winter traction devices that slip over shoes/boots. It is the most direct competitor to Northern Grips given the overlapping product concept (winter walking safety) and identical target customer.
- STABILicers: STABILicers manufactures ice cleats and traction devices for shoes and boots targeting the same winter pedestrian-safety use case as Northern Grips, with broad retail distribution in North America and Europe.
- Due North Winter Traction: Due North makes over-shoe traction devices and anti-slip footwear accessories for industrial, occupational, and consumer winter use — a direct functional peer to Northern Grips' walking-safety positioning.
Broad incumbents
- Salomon: Salomon is a major global winter and outdoor footwear brand with proprietary grip technologies (Contagrip). While not a direct grip-accessory competitor, it represents the 'integrated footwear' alternative that could displace accessory-based traction products like Northern Grips'.
- Ergodyne (Trex brand): Ergodyne's Trex brand is an established line of ice traction devices for occupational and consumer use. It competes directly with Northern Grips in the slip-prevention category and also serves the B2B/industrial safety channel that could be a key growth vector for Northern Grips.
- K1 Series (Wintersteiger): Wintersteiger is a broad sports-equipment manufacturer whose K1 Series includes ice-gripper products; it competes with Northern Grips in the same category but as part of a much larger industrial and sports portfolio.
Others
- Vibram: Vibram is the dominant supplier of high-performance rubber outsoles and grip technologies used in winter and outdoor footwear. As a technology/materials enabler, it is an adjacent peer whose IceTrek and Arctic Grip technologies shape the competitive landscape for companies like Northern Grips.
Regional players
- Crampons.eu / GRIPPI: GRIPPI is an Austrian manufacturer of snow and ice traction devices for shoes, with strong distribution across German-speaking and Alpine markets — a relevant European peer for Northern Grips given overlapping geographies and end customers.
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Northern Grips leadership team
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Northern Grips funding detail
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Investors
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Northern Grips M&A and investment
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Frequently asked questions about Northern Grips
What does Northern Grips do?
Northern Grips designs, produces, and sells physical traction/anti-slip products for footwear intended to make walking safer on icy and snowy winter surfaces. The company operates as a small Helsinki-based product brand with the explicit mission of "Making Winter Walking Safer."
When was Northern Grips founded?
Northern Grips was founded in 2019. It employs 1 to 10 people.
Where is Northern Grips based?
Northern Grips is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, in the Europe region.
Who are Northern Grips's main competitors?
Kurgo Step-N-Strobe is listed as an emerging player. Direct peers are ICEtrekkers, Yaktrax, STABILicers and Due North Winter Traction. Broad incumbents are Salomon, Ergodyne (Trex brand) and K1 Series (Wintersteiger). Vibram is listed as an others. Crampons.eu / GRIPPI is listed as a regional player.
Does Northern Grips have an API?
No public API is recorded for Northern Grips.
What industry is Northern Grips in?
Northern Grips's product category is Winter Footwear Traction Devices. Its primary akta.pro industry code is CRAMAMAK, Outdoor Clothing & Footwear Retail (Camping/Hiking/Climbing), with a secondary code of CRAAACAD, Outdoor & Hiking Footwear. Its NAICS code is 4582 and its SIC code is 5661.