BRIO was founded in 1884 in Osby, a small town located in southern Sweden. Today, the small family-run business has grown into the global company BRIO AB, with subsidiaries in Germany, France and Japan and distributors around the world. BRIO´s product portfolio currently consists of numerous toys but also games for the whole family under the brand Alga.
BRIO’s head office has been located in Malmö since 2006. BRIO as a whole employs around 70 people and is represented in about 20 countries.
BRIO has been a Purveyor to the Royal Court of Sweden since the 1940s.
Today, BRIO is owned by Ravensburger, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of puzzles, games and activity products, and ranked among the leading publishers of children's and youth books in the German-speaking region.