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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

701 products

Pelikan is a German stationery brand founded in 1838 in Hanover, best known for fountain pens, rollerball and ballpoint pens, inks, and a broad range of school and office supplies. The brand is owned by Pelikan Group GmbH, headquartered in Falkensee near Berlin, and has been part of the French stationery group Groupe Hamelin since December 2023. Products are developed in Germany and manufactured at production sites in Germany, Mexico, Colombia and Poland, with writing instruments made in Peine/Vöhrum.

617 products

Italeri is an Italian scale-model manufacturer founded in 1962 in Calderara di Reno, near Bologna, by Giuliano Malservisi and Gian Pietro Parmeggiani. The company, registered as ITALERI S.p.A., designs and produces plastic model kits covering aircraft, helicopters, military vehicles, ships, trucks, cars, motorcycles, figures and diorama accessories, along with paints, glues and modelling tools. It markets itself as a "Made in Italy" benchmark in the hobby, with a catalogue spanning scales from 1:100 down to 1:6, and has acquired the moulds of former Italian brands Supermodel, Protar and ESCI.

519 products

Heller is a plastic model kit brand offering scale kits of aircraft, vehicles, ships and figures, plus paints and hobby accessories. The brand traces its roots to the French Heller S.A., founded in the 1950s, and is today operated by Heller Hobby GmbH, based in Radevormwald, Germany. According to the company, its models are designed and produced in France, and since 2023 all kits are made with recycled plastic and packaged in silk paper instead of plastic bags.

516 products

STAEDTLER is a German stationery and art-supplies maker founded in Nuremberg in 1835, one of the world's oldest producers of pencils and writing instruments. Owned by the non-profit Staedtler Foundation, the company is best known for its Mars, Noris, Lumocolor and FIMO brands, spanning pencils, markers, pens, modelling clay and technical drawing tools. It operates six manufacturing plants, four of them in Germany and one in Peru, with roughly two-thirds of its products made in Germany.

474 products

Canson is a fine art paper brand with roots dating to 1557 in Annonay, France, now owned by Italy's F.I.L.A. Group since 2016. The company produces premium papers for watercolor, oil, acrylic, drawing, pastel, printmaking, and photography, distributed in over 100 countries. All Canson papers are manufactured at the historic site in Saint-Marcel-lès-Annonay, France, where traditional papermaking craft meets modern technology. The brand is recognized by artists worldwide, from Delacroix and Matisse to contemporary creators.

283 products

BIC is a French consumer-goods company founded in 1945 by Marcel Bich and headquartered in Clichy, France. It is a world leader in everyday essentials, best known for its Cristal ballpoint pens, M10 retractable pens, 4 Colours pens, disposable lighters and razors, and is present in more than 160 countries. The Bich family retains controlling ownership of the Euronext Paris-listed group. Product development is centred in France, while manufacturing runs across a global network of 24 plants in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and South America.

67 products

transotype is a German brand of professional graphic and creative supplies, including senseBook notebooks, senseBag pouches, cutting mats, aluminium cutting rulers, cutters, light tables and foam boards. It is owned by the family-run HOLTZ OFFICE SUPPORT GmbH in Wiesbaden, where the company develops its products and operates its own production and logistics centre. The brand, founded in 1964, has won numerous international design awards and ships worldwide from Germany.

9 products

RÖMERTURM is a German brand of fine art paper products, offering artist blocks in bristol, aquarelle, and transparent formats as well as greeting cards. The brand is owned by Papyrus Deutschland, a paper company based in Germany, where its paper products are developed and manufactured.

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.