KOK's purpose is to make people happy, healthy and hot through the power of healing saunas and genuine connections
We bring this through a sensory experience where water, cold, heat and pure joy merge. KOK creates urban life, good outdoor experiences all year round, and makes it possible to swim regardless of the season.
Our ambition is to become the biggest and best sauna in the world by building a global network of floating saunas based on the values of community, sustainability and quality.
KOK Norge AS was founded by Kristin Lorange in 2017. Prior to that, she was a pilot for 15 years, for Thomson Airways and TUI, among others. She flew Boeing 737s and Boeing Dreamliners.
Kristin got the inspiration for KOK on a team-building trip in the Stockholm archipelago with her former job and a group of pilots who loved swimming. It was the first time she had experienced the concept of a "floating sauna", and although she didn't like either sauna or cold water, the combination was hugely exhilarating. Kristin decided that she wanted more people to experience this intoxicating pleasure.
Piloting was Kristin's childhood dream, but after 13 years as a commercial pilot, she wanted to start her own business and build an organization based on values that there could clearly be more of in society. Sustainability, community, diversity and closeness to nature, to name a few. After her trip to Stockholm, a new dream was born; to bring the sauna concept to Oslo so that the capital's residents could experience the same intoxicating joy she had experienced in Sweden.
The first sauna boat was launched at Langkaia in February 2018. At the time, Kristin was pregnant with her son Nordahl and worked full-time as a pilot until she was five months pregnant, while building the small business that has now become KOK Oslo. "It was tough at first, and people were skeptical of both the concept and the area. At the time, Bjørvika was a shadowy part of the city that few people visited, even less to throw themselves into the black, dark harbor basin in the middle of winter.
In 2019, Kristin decided to go all in on KOK. Going from a secure position as a pilot with a good salary to an uncertain entrepreneurial life felt like a big risk. Fortunately, she has never regretted it. There are few female pilots in Norway, but also too few female entrepreneurs! By following her new dream, Kristin will continue to make a difference and inspire others to believe in themselves.
In the transition to 2020, KOK AS separated its operations into the subsidiary KOK Oslo AS. The company now has 9 saunas in Oslo, and over the past 3 years, KOK Oslo AS has doubled its turnover annually, with 23 million in revenue in 2023.
KOK was recently awarded a NOK. 700,000 grant from DOGA to work with Eker Design to design the sauna furniture of the future. This is an important step in product development to prepare the KOK concept for international growth.
KOK AS is a growth company in a rapidly developing industry. The sauna wave has taken more and more countries around the world by storm, and now we are working to build a solid team that together will ride this wave out into the world. We have ambitious goals and the right experience to excel in the most important markets globally. Such as Stocholm, Copenhagen, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo and London.
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