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Brands rated by their connection to EU ownership, product development and manufacturing.

Eduard

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7,038 products

Eduard is a Czech scale-model company founded in 1989 in Most and now headquartered in Obrnice, producing plastic model kits, photo-etched detail sets, masks, decals, resin accessories, and 3D-printed parts for aircraft, armoured vehicles, and ships. The privately held firm is led by its Czech management team, including co-founder Vladimír Šulc, and designs all products in-house. Production of plastic kits, photo-etch, decals, and resin or 3D-printed accessories takes place at its Czech facilities, with worldwide sales through a network of hobby distributors.

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2,346 products

AK Interactive is a Spanish scale-modeling company based in Logroño, La Rioja, that designs and produces paints, weathering products, brushes, tools and publications for modelers and wargamers. It is also the first Spanish brand to develop and produce entirely injected plastic scale model kits. The privately held company develops and manufactures its products in Spain and sells worldwide through its own online store and a network of hobby retailers.

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folia

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2,285 products

folia is a German family-run brand of craft and DIY materials, owned by the Bringmann family and based in Wendelstein, Bavaria. Founded in 1965 by Max Bringmann, it now offers more than 6,000 products, from craft and transparent papers to felt, origami sheets and DIY jewelry. The company develops and produces its range at its Wendelstein site, which includes an in-house printing press, and is the European market leader in the creative sector. It holds ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications and uses FSC- and PEFC-certified materials.

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EXACOMPTA

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2,048 products

Exacompta is a French office supplies and stationery brand founded in 1928 in Paris, where its historic Canal Saint-Martin workshop still operates as one of the largest factories in the city. Part of the Exacompta Clairefontaine Group, the company designs and manufactures filing systems, organisers, diaries, business books and personal stationery, with 80% of its products made in France and 90% across Europe. Its 13 European production sites span France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Austria, and the group acquired the Swiss Biella-Neher Holding in 2019 to broaden its European filing portfolio.

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Faller

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2,022 products

Faller is a German model-making brand founded in 1946 by brothers Edwin and Hermann Faller, today operated as Gebr. FALLER GmbH in Gütenbach in the Black Forest. The company designs and produces plastic model buildings, terrain and scenery accessories, and the Car System road-traffic line for model railways in H0, N, Z and POLA G scales, and also distributes around 26 third-party model brands. All products are conceived, developed and manufactured at the Gütenbach site, which the company markets as "Made in Germany." The firm employs roughly 90 people and is led by managing director Horst Neidhard, who took over after the 2009 insolvency.

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HERMA

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1,803 products

HERMA is a German family-owned manufacturer of adhesive materials, labels and labeling machines, founded in 1906 by Heinrich Hermann and still held by the founding family. Headquartered in Filderstadt near Stuttgart, the company develops and produces its full product range — from self-adhesive paper and film laminates and consumer labels for school, office and home to industrial labeling machines such as the HERMA 500 — at its central campus in Filderstadt, with additional production of labeling machines and adhesive-material cutting in the UK. The group employs around 1,100 people and serves customers worldwide through subsidiaries in the UK, France, Austria, the Netherlands and the United States.

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Calligraphe

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1,729 products

Calligraphe is a stationery product line of Clairefontaine, a French paper and stationery maker founded in 1858 in Etival-Clairefontaine in the Vosges. The brand covers notebooks, notepads, writing sheets, envelopes and fine-art papers, all produced in-house by the family-owned Exacompta Clairefontaine group, which is the only European group that both manufactures paper and converts it into finished stationery. Development and manufacturing are concentrated at the French site, which runs two paper machines producing around 165,000 tonnes of paper per year alongside envelope and notebook lines.

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Kerkmann

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1,729 products

Kerkmann is a German family-owned office furniture maker based in Bielefeld, with more than 100 years of history. The company, operated as Theo Kerkmann Büromöbelfabrik GmbH & Co. KG, designs and manufactures office desks (including the Move sit-stand line), reception furniture, shelving, brochure holders and cabinets, counters and office accessories. Product development, production and logistics are all carried out at its Bielefeld site, and the brand markets its furniture across the German-speaking market.

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Vallejo

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1,691 products

Vallejo (Acrylicos Vallejo) is a Spanish paint manufacturer headquartered in Leganés, Madrid, producing hobby, model, and miniature paints including the Panzer Aces, Game Color, Model Color, and Scenics lines. The company formulates and manufactures its acrylic and enamel paints in Spain and distributes them worldwide through hobby and model shops. Its product range extends to airbrushes, brushes, pigments, weathering effects, and terrain materials for wargaming and scale modelling.

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DIGITUS

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1,523 products

DIGITUS is the IT-infrastructure brand of Lüdenscheid-based ASSMANN Electronic GmbH, part of the German ASSMANN Holding group. Since 1994 it has offered network technology, network and server cabinets, AV media technology, and cables and peripherals, sold through distributors and resellers in more than 50 countries. Its network and server cabinets and fiber splice boxes are assembled in Germany at the company's headquarters, while the broader portfolio is developed at the ASSMANN Competence Center in Lüdenscheid.

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1,510 products

AMMO by MIG Jimenez is a Spanish scale-model hobby brand founded by modeler Miguel Jimenez and headquartered in Estella, Navarra. The company develops and produces acrylic and enamel paints, weathering products, pigments, brushes, tools, and The Weathering Magazine for the global modeling community. All product development and manufacturing are centered at its industrial-park facility in Estella, where the full range of paint and auxiliary lines is produced in-house.

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DURABLE

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1,288 products

DURABLE is a German manufacturer of office organization and presentation products, including document folders, name badges, ID holders, tablet and monitor stands, and labeling systems. Founded in 1920 as Hunke & Jochheim, the family business is headquartered in Iserlohn, Germany, and is controlled by the Hunke and Jochheim families. It employs around 670 people and generates roughly €98 million in annual revenue. Product development and manufacturing take place in Germany (Iserlohn and Kamen-Methler) and Poland (Stettin), with sales subsidiaries across Europe and North America.

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SHIVERPEAKS

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1,163 products

SHIVERPEAKS is a German brand of cables, adapters and connectors for audio, video, computer, network, SAT/TV, solar and telephone applications. It is owned and operated by S-Conn Handels GmbH, a family-run trading and product company founded in 1993 in Markt Bibart, Bavaria, and managed by Reinhold Schwab and Klaus Stecher. The company develops its own product lines in-house and sells them through its online shop to customers across the German-speaking market.

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1,110 products

Faber-Castell is a German family-owned stationery and art-supplies manufacturer founded in 1761 in Stein, Bavaria, and still controlled by the ninth generation of the von Faber-Castell family. The company produces roughly two billion pencils annually alongside pens, markers, paints, and luxury writing instruments, employing about 6,500 people worldwide. Core product development is centred in Stein, Germany, with an additional R&D office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Manufacturing spans eleven countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, with the historic Stein plant handling premium pencil lines and regional plants covering school, office, and cosmetic product families.

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1,070 products

ASK, the own brand of Art Scale Kit Distribution s.r.o., is a Czech scale-modeling company based in Liberec that has operated under its ASK name since 2019. It designs and produces its own masking films for canopies and wheels, lead wires, modeling saws, CA glues, digitally printed decal sets and 3D-printed resin detail accessories for plastic model kits, while also distributing brands such as HK Models and Great Wall Hobby across Europe. Development and manufacturing are carried out in-house in the Czech Republic.

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Oxford

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1,052 products

Oxford is a stationery brand offering school supplies, notebooks, storage boxes, ring binders, and office products. It is owned by Groupe Hamelin, a family-owned stationery company headquartered in Hamelin, Germany. The brand forms part of Hamelin's portfolio of stationery labels distributed across Europe and beyond.

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SIGEL

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1,049 products

SIGEL is a German office-products and print brand founded in 1947 by the Sigel brothers in Mertingen, Bavaria, and today operated by the family-controlled SIGEL GmbH under SIGEL Holding. The company designs and manufactures business forms, continuous and thermal forms, notebooks, calendars, whiteboards, and desk accessories, with all development and print production based in Germany. Its Mertingen printworks processes around 10,000 tonnes of paper annually, and the brand is distributed across 39 countries through subsidiaries and partners.

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Plusmodel

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987 products

Plusmodel is a Czech scale model manufacturer founded in 1990 in České Budějovice, specializing in resin kits for military vehicles, aircraft, and diorama accessories in 1/35, 1/48, 1/72, and 1/32 scales. The company designs and produces its own tooling in-house, offering everything from complete vehicle kits to detailed conversion sets, wheels, flaps, and engine cowlings. Its production has received multiple Model of the Year awards, and the brand is distributed internationally through hobby retailers and its own online shop.

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Brengun

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977 products

Brengun is a Czech model-making brand based in Brno, run by Jan Sobotka. It is best known for its wide range of photo-etched, resin and vacu-formed accessories for scale aircraft models, and also produces its own plastic construction kits in 1/72 and 1/144 scales, alongside a sister line called Hauler for AFV and track-scale kits. Design and production take place at its Brno workshop, with products sold through its own e-shop and a network of worldwide distributors.

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Kores

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973 products

Kores is a family-owned school and office supplies brand founded in Vienna in 1887 by Wilhelm Koreska, now operating under the Swiss Kores Holding Zug AG and run by the Koreska family in its fourth generation. The company designs and sells more than 585 products — correction tapes and pens, glues, colouring and writing instruments, carbon paper and office accessories — in over 85 countries. Production runs at its own plants in Strmilov, Czech Republic, and Naucalpan, Mexico, and its eco glue sticks are made from renewable resources and carry the Austrian Ecolabel.

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STABILO

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928 products

STABILO is a German stationery brand making pens, markers, highlighters, pencils and digital writing tools, owned by the Schwan-STABILO Group under the Schwanhäußer Industrie Holding in Heroldsberg near Nuremberg. The family-controlled company develops its products in Germany and manufactures its pens in its own plants in Germany, the Czech Republic and Malaysia, selling in more than 180 countries.

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AEG

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868 products

AEG is a German-origin household-appliance brand owned by Stockholm-based Electrolux Group. Its range includes cooking, laundry and dishwashing appliances. Electrolux develops appliances through teams in Sweden and other countries, and documented AEG production includes sites in Germany and Italy, alongside manufacturing in Poland and Ukraine.

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KREUL

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836 products

KREUL is a German brand of liquid paints for artists, creatives and children, made by the family-owned C.Kreul GmbH & Co. KG in Hallerndorf, Bavaria. Founded in 1838 by painter Carl Kreul as Germany's first artist paint factory, it is now run in the fourth generation by the Hawranek family. The company develops and produces its full range — from finger paints and acrylics to glass, silk and DIY colours — at its single Hallerndorf site, where an in-house lab handles recipe development and more than five million containers are filled each year.

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Lifecolor

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830 products

Lifecolor is an Italian brand of acrylic paints for scale model building, offering a wide range of 22 ml hobby colours for military, vehicle, aircraft and figure models. The brand is produced by Astromodel S.A.S. di A. Balbo, based in Genoa, Italy, where the company formulates and manufactures its paint lines. Lifecolor paints are distributed worldwide through model-hobby retailers.

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