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HERMA

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  • European Union
  • Rest of Europe

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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  • European Union

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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Kores

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  • Rest of Europe
  • Latin America & Caribbean

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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herlitz

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  • European Union
  • Latin America & Caribbean

798 products

herlitz is a German stationery brand offering school and office products such as notebooks, pens, school bags, folders and coloring and painting supplies, sold under trend-driven designs. The brand is owned by the Pelikan Group GmbH, based in Falkensee near Berlin, and is now part of the French Hamelin group. Product development and marketing run from Germany, while paper-based products are manufactured in Poland (Poznań) and, historically, in Germany (Falkensee).

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MAUL

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  • China
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712 products

MAUL is a German family-owned manufacturer of office and presentation products, founded in 1912 in the Odenwald region. The company, now in its fourth generation under managing director Stefan Scharmann, designs and produces whiteboards, flipcharts, desk accessories, lighting, and hygiene products at its own factory in Bad König. With over 50 patents and an in-house development team, MAUL emphasises "Made in Germany" quality and holds ISO 14001 environmental certification. The brand exports roughly 30% of its output across Europe.

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tesa

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  • European Union
  • USA
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  • China
  • South & Southeast Asia

611 products

tesa is a German manufacturer of adhesive tapes and self-adhesive solutions for consumers and industry, operating as a 100% subsidiary of Hamburg-based Beiersdorf AG. Headquartered in Norderstedt, the company develops and produces tapes, films, and bonding systems at plants in Germany, China, the United States, Italy, Vietnam, Brazil and India, serving automotive, electronics, construction, packaging and home & office markets worldwide.

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MAILmedia

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  • European Union
  • Rest of Europe

307 products

MAILmedia is an envelope and mailing-material brand of the Mayer-Gruppe, a German paper-converting group based in Heilbronn. It offers self-adhesive and wet-glue envelopes, mailing and shipping bags, and air-cushion mailers in standard and custom formats. The group develops and manufactures its paper-based shipping and packaging products across a network of European plants, with headquarters and core development in Germany.

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GPV

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  • European Union

190 products

GPV is a German brand producing envelopes, mailing bags, and related paper products for business and personal use. Based in Germany, the company is part of the Mayer Group, a family-owned paper products manufacturer. Development and manufacturing of its envelope and shipping-bag product lines take place in Germany.

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Smartbox Pro

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  • European Union

164 products

Smartbox Pro is a German packaging manufacturer based in Plößberg, Bavaria, producing corrugated cardboard shipping boxes, archive and storage boxes, wine boxes, retail packaging and private-label solutions. The company, run by managing directors Marion Forster and Bernhard Schön, offers more than 1,000 ready-to-ship products and custom packaging for the European market. All products are made in Germany, and the company highlights its use of lighter Nextboard corrugated cardboard to reduce CO2 emissions.

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dm-folien

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  • European Union

116 products

dm-folien is a German family-run packaging materials company based in Reutlingen, founded in 1987 by Dieter Mühlinghaus and still controlled by the Mühlinghaus family together with long-serving employee shareholders. The company supplies more than 3,000 packaging products — films, PE bags, nets, sacks, stretch film, paper goods, cartons and ropes — to trade, industry, agriculture and retail customers across Germany and abroad. It operates its own in-house production in Reutlingen with 17 machines for PE bags, cut pieces, air-cushion film, PE foam and printed raschel sacks, while also importing thousands of special orders from Eastern Europe and Asia. The company is certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 and has completed a corporate carbon footprint assessment as part of its sustainability.

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APLI Kids

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  • European Union

73 products

APLI Kids is a children's craft brand offering self-adhesive stickers in a wide range of shapes, themes and formats for creative play and school projects. Launched in 2011, it is a product line of the Spanish APLI Paper Group, headquartered in the Barcelona area. The group develops and manufactures its label, paper and stationery families across five production centres in Spain, France and Belgium, distributing to roughly 80 countries worldwide.

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JPC

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  • European Union

270 products

JPC is a French brand of school, office and creative-leisure stationery, ranging from hiking compasses and pencils to glues and craft tools. It was built by JPC Créations, founded in 1993, which merged in 2021 with Safetool to form Wonday, a family-owned company based in Lezoux in the Puy-de-Dôme and one of France's largest stationery suppliers with more than 3,000 products. Product ranges are developed under the Wonday/JPC organisation in Lezoux; the group states that it both manufactures and distributes its products, though the production locations of individual lines are not disclosed.

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