Brio is a wooden toy company founded in Sweden. The company was founded in the small town of Boalt, Scania, Götaland in 1884 by basket maker Ivar Bengtsson. For a long time the company was based in Osby, Scania, in southern Sweden. In 1908 Ivar's three sons took the company over and gave it the name "BRIO", which is an acronym for: BRöderna Ivarsson (in) Osby. In 2006 BRIO moved its headquarters to Malmö, Scania. It is best known for its wooden toy trains, sold in Europe since 1958.
The BRIO building in central Osby
BRIO wooden trains on tracks
BRIO train tracks
Osby is a locality and the seat of Osby Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 7,157 inhabitants in 2010.
Osby Church