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Topstar

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Topstar is a German family-owned manufacturer of ergonomic seating, headquartered in Langenneufnach near Augsburg, Bavaria. Founded in 1976 by the Wagner family, the company develops and produces around 2.5 million swivel chairs and other seating furniture per year at its single 100,000 m² site, marketing its products as Made in Germany. Its portfolio spans office, gaming (Sitness RS), kids, living/outdoor, hospitality and visitor seating under the Topstar, Sitness, Sitness Urban and Sitness RS brands, with roughly 400 employees.

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Edding

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Edding is a German brand of markers, pens, and writing instruments owned by Colart GmbH, a family-run company based in Wuppertal, Germany. Founded in 1958, the company designs and manufactures its full range of writing instruments in Germany, serving markets worldwide.

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APS

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556 products

APS is the brand of Assheuer + Pott GmbH & Co. KG, a fourth-generation German family company founded in 1933 and based in Sundern in the Sauerland. It designs and manufactures a broad range of buffet, tabletop, bar and serving articles — from chafing dishes and GN containers to melamine tableware, baskets, drinkware and kitchen helpers — for hospitality and retail customers worldwide. Much of the range is produced in-house at the Sundern site, with additional contracted production in Europe and Asia, and the company is certified to DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 and a member of BSCI.

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WEDO

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519 products

WEDO is a German brand of office, school and craft supplies owned by Werner Dorsch GmbH, based in Dieburg, Germany. Founded in 1933, the company develops and manufactures its products in Germany, spanning scissors, folders, desk accessories and its well-known SUPERSTEP® rolling stool. Its range covers everyday office, learning, creative and mobile work needs, with a focus on quality and functionality.

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STAEDTLER

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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.

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ELBA

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479 products

ELBA is a European brand of office organization products — file folders, ring binders, hanging files, dividers and labeling supplies — with a heritage dating back to 1917 in Wuppertal, Germany. The brand is owned and managed by HAMELIN GmbH in Gronau, Germany, a subsidiary of the French family-controlled Groupe Hamelin headquartered in Caen. ELBA develops its organization systems (including the RADO folder mechanism and Pendelregistratur) in Germany and France, and produces its 2,000+ product range across nine manufacturing sites, most of them in Europe, with ISO 14001-certified environmental management and a long-standing commitment to recycled materials.

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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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RAU

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RAU is a German family-owned manufacturer of industrial workbenches, work tables, and workplace furniture, founded in 1946 in Balingen-Frommern. The company designs and produces over 10,000 product variants—including workbenches, height-adjustable desks, tool carts, and computer workstations—entirely at its 42,000 m² facility in southern Germany. RAU emphasizes sustainable production using regional forestry, renewable energy, and in-house manufacturing from wood processing through final assembly.

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trodat

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412 products

Trodat is an Austrian stamp manufacturer headquartered in Wels, Upper Austria, and a division of the TroGroup GmbH. Founded in 1912, the company is the world's largest maker of self-inking stamps, best known for the Printy, Professional and Pocket Printy lines, plus replacement pads, inks and embossing tools. Trodat is controlled by the Müller-Just family foundations (74.9%) together with Austria's IW Group (25.1%). Development and core production of its stamp portfolio take place at the Wels site, while regional subsidiaries in more than 15 countries handle sales and distribution across 150+ markets.

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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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ANSMANN

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332 products

ANSMANN AG is a German family-owned battery and mobile-energy company headquartered in Assamstadt, Baden-Württemberg. Founded in 1991 by Edgar Ansmann, it develops and manufactures batteries, chargers, luminaries, powerbanks, powerstations, cables and drive systems for e-bikes and wheelchairs, and offers OEM and private-label services. With more than 400 employees and seven subsidiaries worldwide, the company runs production and R&D in Assamstadt and in Huizhou, China, and maintains sales offices in France, Sweden, the UK and Hong Kong.

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fischer

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321 products

fischer is a German family-owned group known for construction fixings and fischertechnik building kits. Its businesses also develop construction robots and electronic systems.

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Bi-Office

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320 products

Bi-Office is a visual-communication brand of the Portuguese family-owned group Bi-silque, S.A., headquartered in Esmoriz, Portugal. It designs and manufactures whiteboards, glass boards, chalkboards, flipcharts, easels, mobile and display boards, planners and interactive screens for offices, schools, healthcare and home use. Product development and manufacturing are centred on the Esmoriz factory, which uses biofuel cogeneration, solar power and sustainably sourced wood, cork and aluminium, with several product lines holding Cradle to Cradle, EU Ecolabel and PEFC certification. Regional sales offices operate in the UK (Preston) and Germany (Düsseldorf).

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Ritzenhoff & Breker is a sixth-generation German family company based in Bad Driburg, designing and supplying over 4,000 tableware, kitchenware, and home products in glass, porcelain, and ceramics. Founded in 1810, the Breker family still controls the business, which employs more than 200 people for product development, sourcing, production, and distribution. The company sources and contracts manufacturing across Europe and Asia while maintaining its own production heritage in German glass and ceramics.

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Allit

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310 products

Allit is a German plastics and storage-equipment brand owned by Allit AG Kunststofftechnik, a family-run company based at the Rotlay-Mühle site in Bad Kreuznach. For more than 60 years it has developed and injection-molded thermoplastic components for aerospace, filtration, beverage and tooling customers, and it markets reusable logistics containers plus its own workshop and storage range, including the ProfiPlus clear storage boxes. The Kallinowsky family controls the company, which employs around 470 people. Product development, toolmaking and production all take place in Germany, where the company operates roughly 70 injection-molding machines around the clock.

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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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Falken

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305 products

Falken is a German office-supplies brand producing file folders, ring binders, hanging files, clipboards, storage boxes and choral folders. The Falken GmbH is based in Peitz, Brandenburg, and has been owned by the French Exacompta Group since 2019. All production takes place at its single 18,000 m² plant in Peitz, making it the largest folder manufacturing site in Europe with a capacity of over 100 million folders per year. The brand markets its own products across Germany and Europe and also supplies private-label goods to trading partners.

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Hama

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287 products

Hama is a German consumer electronics accessories company founded in 1923 in Dresden and rebuilt in Monheim, Bavaria, after World War II. The family-controlled firm, now owned by the Thomas and Hanke family foundations, designs and distributes roughly 18,000 products spanning photo, audio, computer, smart home, wearables and household categories. With around 2,500 employees worldwide and a large engineering and logistics base in Monheim, Hama develops its products in Germany while much of the physical production is outsourced to contract manufacturers in Southeast Asia and China.

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BIC

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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.

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Legamaster

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270 products

Legamaster is the visual-communication brand of the German edding Group, offering whiteboards, glassboards, flipcharts, Magic-Charts, interactive touch displays and related accessories for education, corporate and training environments. The brand was born in 1999 from the merger of the Dutch LEGA and German planMASTER portfolios and is operated by Legamaster International B.V. in Lochem, the Netherlands, which also serves as the group's main production and development site for the brand. The parent Edding AG is headquartered in Ahrensburg, Germany, and is controlled by the Ledermann family.

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Rhodia

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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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Schneider

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257 products

Schneider is a German family-owned manufacturer of writing instruments, founded in 1938 and headquartered in Schramberg-Tennenbronn. The company produces ballpoint pens, refills, fineliners, markers, fountain pens and gel pens, with the Line-Up fineliner and Maxx chalk markers among its best-known lines. All development, tooling and production take place at its German sites in Schramberg-Tennenbronn and Wernigerode, and the brand is exported to more than 130 countries. Schneider is EMAS-certified and uses renewable electricity and biobased plastics across its product range.

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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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STOP

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STOP is a German brand of bags, laptop cases, trolleys, planners and office accessories made from recycled PET (RPET), with models named after islands such as Borneo, Barbados, Nias, Santo and Tonga. It is owned and operated by JÜSCHA GmbH, a family-run leather-goods and promotional-products company based in Wermelskirchen, Germany, with over 45 years of market experience. Product development runs through JÜSCHA's in-house design department in Germany, while production combines its own German facilities with long-standing contracted partners in India and China.

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