Klean Kanteen, the American producer of drinking bottles, has changed its distribution in France. The company's current distributor for the Benelux countries, Elements, took over the distribution in France at the beginning of this year. For the Korean market, Klean Kanteen signed a distribution contract with SNG in autumn 2018. SNG started to sell Klean Kanteen's product line in 2019. Klean Kanteen increased its business outside the U.S. by 40 percent in 2018, as compared to 2017, driven by a positive development of sales in Germany, Scandinavia, the Benelux countries, France, Japan and Australia. Klean Kanteen aims to expand its business by 10 percent in 2019.
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