Jonas Øglænd (18 January 1847 – 6 October 1931) was a Norwegian merchant and industrial

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. He was born in

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, as the youngest of ten siblings at a small peasant farm. After he was confirmated, he moved to Sandnes to work for two of his older brothers who had business there. He started a small business on his own in

Sandnes Sandnes () is a city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway. It lies immediately south of Stavanger, the 4th largest municipality in Norway, and together the Stavanger/Sandnes area is the third-largest urban area in Norway. The urban city of Sand ...

in 1868. In the late 1890s his sons acquired the Scandinavian agency for the bicycle brand "The World". They eventually started producing their own bicycles, and the factory developed into the largest bicycle factory in Norway. Øglænd also started a cloth factory in 1926. After Øgland's death the family-owned factories went through further expansion. The bicycle brand D.B.S. was introduced in 1932, and the factory also produced the moped brand

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1847 births 1931 deaths People from Sandnes Norwegian merchants Norwegian businesspeople in textiles 19th-century Norwegian businesspeople {{Norway-business-bio-stub