Our story

Brix Design is a family-owned company, run by the brothers Christian Brix-Hansen (Harvard MBA, Civil Economist) and Joachim Brix-Hansen (Civil Economist). We own the brand BRIX and market this on a worldwide basis. In addition, we market other leading brands within the Nordic region, such as OXO and ION8.

Our core competence is the ability to market products that are innovative in nature and which are differentiated from the competition.

Brix Design is based in Stege, Denmark. Stege is the "capital" of the small island called Møn. For centuries, Stege was a centre for trade and herring fishery. Today Møn is famous for its magnificent white cliffs and sandy beaches. Also, our island is well-known for its many creative artists who have chosen to live here because of the island’s natural beauty.

Being located on the waterfront in Stege is ideal for us. We live and work in a very creative environment, yet we are only 20 minutes from the main highway connecting Scandinavia with continental Europe, and only 1 hour from the busy Copenhagen airport.

Worldwide, we sell our products to leading houseware stores, department stores, design stores, gift stores, mail order catalogues, web shops, supermarkets and hypermarkets.

If you need help in order to find our products in your area, then please just send us a mail.

The Invention of JarKey

The JarKey® (or JarPop) is an original and design awarded jar opener that opens jars, not by twisting the lid, but by lifting the edge of it, so that the vacuum inside is released. When the vacuum is released, it is easy to unscrew the lid.

JarKey was invented by Danish engineer Helge Brix-Hansen. His octogenarian mother Karen Elisabeth was suffering from arthritis and could not open a preserving jar on her own. Not even with the help of one of the many jar openers that existed on the world market. Helge solved the problem for her, when he invented JarKey, the world's best jar opener.

Helge, who himself designed the original JarKey jar opener in a tight, functional, aluminum design, desired that, in parallel with the metal design, an artistic design of a plastic material had to be made. The task of developing the artistic design was handed over to the Danish designer Alf Rimer. He succeeded in developing an exciting and ergonomic artistic design, which in addition to the built-in technical function got a distinctively artistic but pleasing and quite new appearance.

In 2000, JarKey was selected as one of the best home inventions in the 20th century by International Housewares Association in the USA. Also, JarKey has won numerous design awards.

JarKey® is a registered trademark of Brix Design A/S, Denmark

Recommendations

“...Gently levering the JarKey against the rim of the lid releases the vacuum inside the jar, taking all of the hard work out of twisting off the lid!”

— Daily Mail

"...The JarPop earned an excellent score for ease of use, better than the others!"

— Consumer Reports

"...A much better invention than the older types where you need big hands if the lids are big. Here the lid size does not matter, even if you have weak hands!"

— ICA

"...Is good holding on for hands with rheumatism. Its easy opening jars, when you have removed the vacuum with the help of JarKey!"

— Gigtforeningen

Ours Works!
"Over the years I've bought several gadgets which were supposed to make it easy to remove lids from jars - they were all useless and ended up in the bin. But I recently bought a JarKey and found it worked. Congratulations to the inventor - it's brilliant!" Miss A Tidey, Basildon

— Lakeland

"...JarKey should be in every kitchen!"

— Mr. Gadget® (Steve Kruschen)