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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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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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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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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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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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  • European Union

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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246 products

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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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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UHU

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188 products

UHU is a German consumer adhesives brand founded in 1932 by pharmacist August Fischer in Bühl, Baden, who developed the world's first ready-to-use clear synthetic resin adhesive. Operated by UHU GmbH in Bühl, the brand offers paper glues, craft adhesives, instant glues, construction adhesives and sealants sold in over 125 countries. UHU is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Italian family-controlled Bolton Group, headquartered in Milan. The majority of UHU products are manufactured at the company's headquarters site in Bühl, Germany, which also hosts its research and development activities.

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Djois

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169 products

Djois is a French brand of workspace organisation and visual communication products, launched in 2023 as the unified commercial brand of T3L Group, a family of local manufacturers headquartered in Geispolsheim, Alsace. The range covers signage pockets, display systems, filing and desk accessories, media storage and hygiene items, made through plastic foil welding, printing, injection moulding and cardboard processing. Djois develops and manufactures 98% of its products in its own facilities in Denmark, France and the Netherlands, with additional production in Germany, and sells in more than 45 countries.

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Smartbox Pro

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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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HSM

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152 products

HSM (HSM GmbH + Co. KG) is a German family-owned manufacturer of document shredders and baling presses, founded in 1971 by Hermann Schwelling and still led by the Schwelling family from Frickingen, Baden-Württemberg. The company develops and produces its SECURIO, Pure, and shredstar shredder lines along with vertical, horizontal, and automatic baling presses at four plants in Germany, maintaining roughly 90 percent in-house production depth. With approximately 820 employees and subsidiaries across Europe and North America, HSM exports to more than 100 countries.

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EICHNER

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141 products

Eichner GmbH is a German manufacturer of production tracking and identification systems, including task bags, piece-part tags, self-adhesive bags, and insert cards used on factory shop floors. The family-owned company is based in Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Bavaria, and develops and produces its product range in Germany.

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ALCO

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118 products

ALCO is a German office-products brand owned by ALCO-Albert GmbH & Co. KG, a family business in Arnsberg, Sauerland, that has manufactured and distributed small metal goods and stationery since 1906. Now in its fourth generation under managing director Annette Albert, the company offers more than 1,500 articles spanning stationery (cutters, clips, staplers), office equipment (coat racks, door stops, signage), office lighting, and nautical items. Products are sold to wholesalers and retailers in Germany and abroad, with production and development based at the Arnsberg site.

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dm-folien

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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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VELOFLEX

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113 products

VELOFLEX is a German family-run manufacturer of school and office supplies, operating as VELOFLEX Carsten Thormählen GmbH & Co. KG in Kölln-Reisiek near Elmshorn. In its third generation since 1955, the company develops, designs, and produces a broad range of products including ring binders, folders, document and ID sleeves, CD/DVD cases under the VELOBOX brand, business card holders, and presentation materials. As a member of the Initiative Standort Deutschland, VELOFLEX commits to keeping its production, jobs, and investment in Germany.

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Dahle

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  • China

112 products

Dahle is a German office-products brand founded in 1930 by Wilhelm Dahle, originally making steel cutting discs for pencil sharpeners and now best known for rotary trimmers, guillotine and lever cutters, stack cutters, scissors and cutting accessories, alongside sharpeners and laminators. The brand belongs to Novus Dahle GmbH, based in Lingen (Ems), Germany, formed by merging Dahle with the Novus brand and owned by the family-run emco Group (formerly Erwin Müller Gruppe). Its cutting machines are designed and, for the trimmer line, manufactured in Germany, with the group also operating its own production plants in the Czech Republic and China.

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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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BRUNNEN

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72 products

BRUNNEN is a German stationery brand offering school notebooks, college blocks, index cards, logbooks, calendars and office paper products. The brand belongs to the family-owned Schneider Gruppe (Baier & Schneider GmbH & Co. KG) in Heilbronn, founded in 1877 and now led by the fourth and fifth generation of the Schneider family. With roughly 700 employees and a catalogue of about 20,000 products, the group operates a single production site in Heilbronn and exports to around 50 countries across Europe.

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67 products

BURG-WÄCHTER is a German family-owned security-technology company founded in 1920 in Wetter (Ruhr) and still controlled by the Lüling family. It designs and manufactures padlocks, safes (a world market leader), mailboxes, cash and key boxes, electronic door-lock systems such as secuENTRY, and video-surveillance products under the BURG-GUARD brand. Development and its largest production site are in Meinerzhagen-Valbert, with additional German plants in Wetter-Volmarstein and Wismar, plus subsidiary production in Romania (Arad), China (Nanjing) and France (Pont-sur-Sambre, mailboxes).

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transotype

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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.

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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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