Fredrik Idestam - Nokia

Knut Fredrick Idestam was born on October 28, 1838 in Finland. knut Fredrick was a mining engineer and he started his carrier constructing a wood-pulp paper mill (1866) at Finland. The name Nokia originated from the river which flowed through the town of the same name (Nokia). In Finland a community called Nokia still exists.

Fredrik Idestam export paper to Russia, United Kingdom and France. To expand his business he merged up with a Rubber goods manufacturing company which used to produce rubber items by the Nokia wood-pulp. The new merger started selling goods under the brand name on Nokia.

By the late 1980s, Nokia was the world’s second largest IT Company. Today, it is the world’s biggest mobile phone manufacturer for protocols such as GSM, CDMA, and W-CDMA. Fredrik Idestam died on April 8, 1916.