It All Began...

With A Bin

The Vipp story begins one spring Sunday in 1931 when 17-year-old Holger Nielsen decides to sell his car and invest in a metal lathe that allows him to work with one of his great passions – steel. As a newly educated metalsmith, Holger’s wife, a hairdresser named Marie, asked him to make a stylish bin for her salon. It was this request that marked the beginning of Vipp.

Accepting the challenge of crafting a receptacle for various potent chemicals found in a salon, Holger spent many days labouring in his workshop, until he emerged with what was to be the very first – and still unchanged – Vipp pedal bin. Many of Marie’s clients; doctors and dentists, felt the bin would be perfect for their own clinics, particularly in light of its practical and sturdy design. And so, the humble Vipp pedal bin soon became a permanent and prolific feature of Danish clinics and has remained a fixture of the professional market for the last 50 years.

Today, Vipp is a third-generation family business. Holger and Marie’s youngest daughter, Jette Egelund took over the company in 1990, and has since been joined by her two children, Sofie and Kasper. Together with a committed team of employees and a growing range of products including everything from kitchens, bathrooms, dust bins and even an entire pop-up house, the family continues adding chapters to the remarkable Vipp story.