Incorporating Castelgarden

• 1934 Stig Hjelmquist opens an importing / wholesale business dealing in table tennis products. Stiga is born in Sweden.
• 1958 Stiga starts selling lawnmowers.
• 1962 Castelgarden starts producing motorised garden products in Italy.
• 1975 Stiga launches its first Park front mower.
• Late 1980's Castelgarden rideon mowers arrived in NZ with the Twincut TC/102 models  -  the flagship 40" cut rear catcher rideon mower.
• 2000 Stiga, Castelgarden, Alpina, Mountfield and Atco merge to form Global Garden Products (GGP).
• 2006-07 New production plants constructed in Slovakia and China.
• 2009 Chainsaw and Outdoor Power (COP) aquires the NZ distribution of Castelgarden.
• 2016 COP becomes the sole NZ distributor of Stiga and rebrands from Castelgarden.
• 2017 GGP becomes Stiga Group to expressly focus on its 'Premium brand.'

Stiga represents; High Quality, Innovation, Safety and Ease of use. 

The Stiga group is the leading European manufacturer of lawnmowers with it's headquarters based in Castelfranco, Veneto, Italy, with over 1700 employees worldwide and 4 manufacturing plants in Italy, Slovakia and China. 

Stiga group sells more than 1 million machines across 70 countries around the world. 

Stiga group has over 90 years of history across the brands - Stiga, Castelgarden, Alpina, Mountfield and Atco.