Trypa-NO! Partnership announced between FIND, IRD, LSTM & Vestergaard with support by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to harmonise and integrate the screening, diagnosis and treatment of sleeping sickness and tsetse fly control activities through ZeroFly® Tiny Targets.

LifeStraw receives the Outdoor Inspiration Award by Outdoor Retailer and adidas Outdoor.

Vestergaard launches the LifeStraw® Safe Water Fund to bring drinking water to victims following natural disasters and school children in vulnerable communities globally.

The company commits to donating 100% of all LifeStraw® Guinea worm filters provided to the Carter Center.

Vestergaard launches a Give Back programme where for every LifeStraw® purchased at retail, one school child in need receives safe water for an entire school year, five purchases provide that child with safe water for the next five years.

PermaNet® 3.0 LLIN is prequalified by WHO (Reference 005-002).

IR Mapper is established as a joint initiative of Vestergaard, KEMRI-CGHR and ESRI Eastern Africa to provide up-to-date insecticide resistance data and guide the deployment of the right vector control tools.

ZeroFly® Storage Bags introduced as the first insecticide-incorporated storage bags to improve income, health and livelihood of smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries.

Vestergaard funds the Vestergaard-NMIMR Vector Labs (VNVL) as a public-private partnership with the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research. VNVL houses susceptible and insecticide resistant strains of Anopheles gambiaes for extensive bioassay testing following WHOPES protocols and tailored experiments

The LifeStraw® Carbon for Water campaign uses carbon financing to distribute 877,505 LifeStraw® Family water filters to nearly 91% of all households in the Western Province of Kenya. The campaign provides more than 4 million residents with the ability to safely treat their water at the home and is implemented in partnership with the Kenyan Ministry of Public Health & Sanitation and other ministry collaborations.

Vestergaard rehabilitates and donates the Emusanda Health Center to ensure that every person receives access to health services, including HIV/AIDS treatment, and a CarePack®.

The integrated prevention campaign in Kenya combines voluntary testing and counselling (VCT) for HIV and AIDS with the distribution of a CarePack® of disease-preventing tools – LifeStraw® water filters, PermaNet® long-lasting insecticide treated bednets, condoms and educational materials. This program provided testing for more than 47,000 people in seven days and tested more than 80 per cent of the target population for the first time.

LifeStraw receives Saatchi Award for World Changing.

PermaNet® 3.0 LLIN is the first combination bednet with increased efficacy against malaria vectors resistant to current insecticides.

Corporate headquarters relocate to Lausanne, Switzerland.

PermaNet® 2.0 LLIN receives interim recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Vestergaard creates a plastic pipe filter for the Carter Center to strain out Guinea worm larva and prevent Guinea worm disease.

PermaNet® bednet, one of the first long-lasting insecticidal bed nets (LLINs), is introduced to market.

Mikkel assumes leadership of Vestergaard and sells the traditional clothing manufacturing operations to focus entirely on the humanitarian business.

To support the humanitarian business, Vestergaard opens its first offices in Africa (Kenya) and in India (New Delhi).

Mikkel Vestergaard joins the family business and starts a division dedicated to products for development and emergency aid.

Kaj turns the business over to Torben, his son.

Kaj adds sewing equipment to focus solely on manufacturing.

Danish farmer Kaj Vestergaard Frandsen establishes a textile weaving company run by family members using six weaving looms.