The brand UVEX  (uv-ex = ultraviolet excluded) was first introduced in the mid-1950s by Rainer Winter, managing director of UVEX WINTER HOLDING GmbH & Co.KG, based in Fürth. , Germany, for a line of sunglasses. It soon morphed into an all-encompassing brand of their sports products and then expanded from the mid-1970s onwards to include goggles.

Main product lines of Uvex: Sports and outdoor products, products in the industrial sector