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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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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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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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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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herlitz

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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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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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665 products

magnetoplan® is a German brand of visual communication and collaboration tools, covering moderation cards, magnets, whiteboards and glass boards, flipcharts, planning boards and Scrum kits, plus ecoAware accessories made from recycled materials. The brand belongs to HOLTZ OFFICE SUPPORT GmbH, a family-run medium-sized company based in Wiesbaden, Germany, founded in 1956 after Herman Holtz invented the first magnetic planning board. Products are designed in Germany and the core portfolio, including planning boards and moderation cards, is largely produced there, with designs recognized by multiple German design and innovation awards.

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tesa

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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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COLOP

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361 products

COLOP is an Austrian manufacturer of self-inking stamps, ribbon stamps, mobile printing devices, and arts-and-crafts marking products, founded in 1981 by Karl Skopek in Wels. The family-owned company is headquartered in Wels, Austria, and operates a second production facility in Borovany, Czech Republic, where ribbon stamps, self-inking stamps, and stamp pads are manufactured. With roughly 500 employees worldwide and an export rate above 98 percent, COLOP serves more than 120 markets through a network of subsidiaries across Europe, India, and the United States.

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MAILmedia

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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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Rhodia

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258 products

Rhodia is a French stationery brand best known for its iconic orange notepad, founded in 1923 by the Vérilhac brothers in Lyon. Since 1997 it has belonged to the Exacompta Clairefontaine group, which is controlled by the Nusse family. The brand's notebooks, notepads, diaries and writing instruments are designed and produced in France, in the group's factory near Mulhouse, using PEFC-certified paper, vegetable-based inks and vegetable glue.

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RNK Verlag

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253 products

RNK Verlag is a German publisher and manufacturer of legally reviewed forms, contracts and school, office and shipping supplies, operating as a branch of the Roth GmbH family business. The brand traces its roots to a Berlin-Kreuzberg stationery shop founded more than 140 years ago and is now run from Großbeeren near Berlin, with the parent company based in Lichtentanne in Saxony. Products are developed in-house with ongoing legal review and produced in Germany. The company is FSC-certified and uses recycled air-cushion film and paper tape for shipping.

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GPV

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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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APLI Kids

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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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MNT

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61 products

MNT (MNT Research GmbH) is a Berlin-based open-source hardware company founded by Lucie Hartmann that designs modular, repairable laptops and retro-computing peripherals. Its product line includes the MNT Reform laptop, Pocket Reform, Reform Next, Reform Camera, Reform Keyboard, MNT Station desktop, and the ZZ9000 graphics card for Amiga. The company is founder-owned with no venture capital or external investors. All electronics, firmware, and software development take place in-house in Berlin, where final assembly is also performed; printed circuit board assembly is outsourced to JLCPCB in China.

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Miquelrius

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40 products

Miquelrius is a Spanish stationery brand founded in 1839, known for notebooks, planners, school supplies and creative paper products. It is part of Grupo APLI (APLI Paper, S.A.U.), a Barcelona-region paper and stationery group headquartered in Barberà del Vallès, Spain, which has owned the brand since 2018. The group operates five production centers and distributes across more than 80 countries, with Miquelrius positioned as its premium design-focused label.

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22 products

Cygnus Excellence is a premium envelope and shipping-bag brand of the German mayer-bestpac GmbH, the central sales company of the Mayer-Gruppe (Mayer-Kuvert-network) headquartered in Heilbronn. The line is positioned as the top tier of the group's envelope portfolio, built on high-white, FSC-certified paper with a light-impermeable, privacy-protecting interior and long-lasting hot-melt adhesive. The group develops and manufactures paper-based mailing and packaging solutions across a European network of more than 30 companies in 14 countries, with envelope production in Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, France, Ukraine, the UK and Ireland.

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Bantex

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10 products

Bantex is a stationery brand of the French family-owned Hamelin Group, headquartered in Caen, France. Originally founded in Denmark in 1961, Bantex was acquired by Hamelin in 2000 and is now marketed worldwide through the group's network. The brand is known for polypropylene lever-arch files with its Strong-Line edge reinforcement, as well as notebooks, exercise books, address books, loose-leaf paper and desk accessories such as letter trays, desk pads and waste paper baskets. Development and manufacturing are carried out across Hamelin's European production sites, with the group reporting 3,000 employees in 19 countries and a turnover of around 600 million euros.

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6 products

Elefantenhaut is a protected specialty-paper brand of Reflex GmbH & Co. KG, a German fine-paper maker based in Düren. The paper is dense, marbled and scratch-resistant, used for certificates, menus, invitations, business cards and book covers. Both development and production take place at the company's single paper mill in Düren, which has made fine papers for over 160 years.

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