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Eduard

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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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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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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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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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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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Plusmodel

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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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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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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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Maped

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741 products

Maped is a French family-owned stationery brand founded in 1947 in Annecy, now led by the Lacroix family. It designs and manufactures school, writing and office supplies — from compasses and scissors to erasers, pencil sharpeners, pens and craft kits — under its Maped, Maped Office, Maped Creativ, Joustra, Helit and Helix brands. All product design is done in-house at the French headquarters, while roughly 60% of production runs through three integrated sites in France, China and Mexico, with the remainder contracted closer to markets. The group employs around 1,800 people and sells in more than 120 countries through 17 subsidiaries.

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Pelikan

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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.

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Italeri

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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.

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Canson

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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.

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AFV Club

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411 products

AFV Club is a Czech model-kit manufacturer based in Prague, specializing in detailed plastic model kits of military vehicles such as tanks, armored fighting vehicles, and related equipment in scales including 1/35. The company designs and markets kits covering World War II and modern military hardware, with product lines ranging from Soviet T-34s to Israeli Centurion variants and U.S. amphibious vehicles. Design and development work is carried out in the Czech Republic.

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FIMO

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197 products

FIMO is a German brand of oven-bake and air-dry polymer modelling clay owned by Staedtler SE, the Nuremberg-based stationery and art-supplies group controlled by the Staedtler-Stiftung. The product line spans FIMO soft, FIMO professional, FIMO effect, FIMO kids, FIMO leather-effect, FIMO liquid and the air-drying FIMOair range, plus tools and accessories for hobbyists, children and professional artists. FIMO has been made in Germany since Staedtler acquired the rights from Eberhard Faber in 1978, and the company develops and produces its products at its German sites in Nuremberg, Sugenheim, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz and Hengersberg, with additional group production in Peru.

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HEYDA

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HEYDA is a German craft and hobby brand founded in 1902, offering motif punches, decotapes, stickers, paper, card, paints, modelling materials, and themed craft sets. The brand is owned by Knorr & Prandell, a Bingen am Rhein–based company within the Schneidergruppe, and has been setting creative trends in the European scrapbooking and card-making market for over a century. Product development and manufacturing are centred in Germany.

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APLI Kids

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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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Décopatch

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Décopatch is a French DIY craft brand founded in Lyon in 1993, making ultra-thin decorative papers, paper-mâché supports (animals, boxes, masks), glues, varnishes and brushes for customizing household objects. The brand is part of the Exacompta Clairefontaine family group, a French paper producer and transformer, and has belonged to the Clairefontaine Rhodia group since 2004. Headquartered in Genas near Lyon, the company controls the entire production process in the Lyon area, from paper manufacturing to finished paper-mâché supports, and distributes its collections in more than 60 countries.

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KNORR prandell is a German brand of hobby and craft supplies, offering jewelry sets, paper and card, modeling and casting materials, paints, textiles, decorations and floristry. It is a core brand of the Schneider Gruppe (Baier & Schneider GmbH & Co. KG), a family-owned paper-processing company based in Heilbronn, Germany. The group develops and manufactures its products at its single production site in Heilbronn and distributes them through trade partners in around 50 countries, with KNORR prandell known across Europe as a creative-expert brand.

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JPC

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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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