The Fridolin company was founded in 1986 - at that time just a Fridolin toy shop in the pedestrian zone of Herrenberg, a smallish city in southern Germany, nestling snugly among green woods and hills at the edge of the Black Forest. At that time, our business was mainly focused on toys, a substantial portion of which came from our own production.
So, in 1991, it seemed an obvious step to start our own production company. It was then, too, that we started supplying products of our own design to retailers in all parts of Germany. This resulted in a significant rise of our staff figures. Early in 1996, we decided to move into somewhat more spacious premises. It was at that time that we also started expanding our product portfolio to include various sorts of presents and art-oriented themes.

This lead to a fruitful co-operation with various artists from Germany and abroad. Some of them already had established their reputation in their respective fields, others were still widely unknown and can be considered, at least partly, as our "discoveries". Today, our product range harmoniously combines art, games, presents and modern design, thus enabling us to address people of all age groups around the globe.

Thanks to our design articles, we by now feel at home not only in shops specializing in toys, gifts, stationery etc., we are in fact enjoying close relationships with many leading art museums world-wide.