*** FREE SHIPPING TO ALL CUSTOMERS
WORLDWIDE, EXCEPT TO THE UNITED STATES. AMERICAN BYERS: PLEASE SEE EXPLANATION WHY
AT THE END OF THE LISTING! ***
Of course, it all
started a few decades earlier, when Freia's founder, Johan Throne Holst, got
lost in the field with a business connection. The traveling companion
complained that Throne Holst had not brought chocolate with him on the trip,
something that Throne Holst obviously never forgot.
NORWAY'S TOUR
CHOCOLATE
Kvikk Lunsj has
since established itself as Norway's travel chocolate. It has always encouraged
people to go on trips and given us good advice along the way. In the 1960s, the
mountain weather rules were printed on the packaging and since then it has
provided travel tips, information about sights and the Norwegian Tourist
Association's cabins around our wonderfully scenic country.
Did you know…?
When Kvikk Lunsj was launched in 1937,
chocolate as nutrition during strenuous physical exertion was well established.
Chocolate was an important provision when the polar hero Amundsen reached the
South Pole in 1911.
The very first batch of Kvikk Lunsj was
made with dark chocolate. Shortly after, Kvikk Lunsj came out with milk
chocolate as we know it today, and the continuation has become chocolate
history.
During and after the war, between 1941 and
1949, the production of Kvikk Lunsj was stopped, among other things, due to a
lack of sugar and the quality of the flour.
When Norway organized the Winter Olympics
in Oslo in 1952, an incredible 10 million Kvikk Lunsj bars were sold!
*****
IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR MY AMERICAN CUSTOMERS:
Ever since I started selling
on eBay in 2012, I have offered "free shipping" on all my
items/auctions. The reason I have been able to offer this is that I have used
older stamps as franking and I have great access to this and have been able to
keep costs down.
From January 1, 2026,
unfortunately new rules came from the US and all shipments to the US must now
be registered online, US customs fees must be prepaid by the seller (me), and
shipping must be paid with a credit card. Postage stamps are now only allowed
on normal letters and postcards without any value, and part of the customs
handling fee.
From 1st January, I was unfortunately forced to charge
full shipping, (which is very expensive from Norway) to all my American
customers. To all other countries in the world, I can still frank with stamps
and still offer free shipping. 80% of all orders that come in from eBay are
sent to the USA so needless to say this is disastrous for my business, but
unfortunately nothing I can do anything about, and I must start concentrating
on selling to other countries. As an example, I can send a 2-kilo package of
goods to a customer in Canada, Japan, or Australia with free shipping (franked
with older stamps), while an American customer must pay over US$25 for the same
package. I really regret this, both for you and me. I am in the US a lot both
on vacation and for work, (my main job is for an American company based in
Miami), and I think the US is a wonderful country, but the new tariff rules are
of course not to my liking.