The idea....

or rather why ARTIVA was created.
ARTIVA emerged from the event agency FAIREVER.
Due to our event concept, we needed 100% customized running shirts for our client SAMSUNG during the Berlin Marathon.
After a short research we had a handful of suppliers who all made us a sample shirt.
In the end, we opted for the best of the rather plain shirts.
The seams weren't straight, the fabric was scratchy and the cut was OK.
So we ordered 4,220 shirts for the event and gave them away to the runners of the Berlin Marathon.
The event was a huge success!
The TV presence during the marathon broadcast was 1A.
Our customer was highly satisfied.
Only we thought that the shirt should have been better.

And so we decided to do better.
In 2010 and 2011, we learned a lot about jersey production and, as an event agency, produced lots of jerseys for good customers such as PHOENIX CONTACT, KODAK, CARESTREAM, BLAU, ENELOOP etc. without our own brand name.
We were traveling a lot at the same time, in Istanbul, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Poland, Portugal and the Czech Republic!
However, we learned the most in Turkey, the secret world capital of jersey production at the time.
It is all the more remarkable that today we only produce in our production facilities in Croatia and Serbia.
We make cycling wear in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Now we claim: That Turkey has been replaced as the world capital of jersey production.
It is now located in the EU countries Croatia, Poland and the Czech Republic and also in Serbia.

On 12.12.2012, the time had come: the brand and GmbH were registered - a website had already been created in the background and the first sponsorship agreements with marathon organizers had been concluded.
We started with the Freiburg Mararthon, TUI Hannover Marathon and the Palma de Mallorca Marathon.
This was followed by sponsorship agreements with large and important company runs, such as the Leipzig Company Run, the REWE Team Challenge in Dresden and the very large HOCB Run in Hamburg.
For many years, we have been a partner of the Berlin company run and the Potsdam company run, as well as those in Braunschweig and Chemnitz.

So we set out to produce the best quality that otherwise only Bundesliga soccer teams get from their suppliers.
And because we wanted to advertise with "Bundesliga quality for everyone", we signed sponsorship agreements with the first division volleyball teams Schweriner SC, SC Potsdam and SVG Lüneburg.

All of the collaborations have given us great pleasure.
Most of them continue to this day.
Friendships have developed.
And due to our meticulous preparation of just over 2 years, we were able to offer better quality than our competitors right from the start.
It may also be due to the fact that many of our competitors only see what they do as "advertising shirts".
We didn't want to produce promotional shirts, but great sportswear with great cuts, a sexy mix of materials and lots of finishing options.
We love jerseys!
For us, it's pure passion!
And it remains so.
We are constantly developing our products further.

Here's to the next 10 years!
Happy Birthday ARTIVA!