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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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DURABLE

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1,288 products

DURABLE is a German manufacturer of office organization and presentation products, including document folders, name badges, ID holders, tablet and monitor stands, and labeling systems. Founded in 1920 as Hunke & Jochheim, the family business is headquartered in Iserlohn, Germany, and is controlled by the Hunke and Jochheim families. It employs around 670 people and generates roughly €98 million in annual revenue. Product development and manufacturing take place in Germany (Iserlohn and Kamen-Methler) and Poland (Stettin), with sales subsidiaries across Europe and North America.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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BOI

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44 products

BOI is a German brand of the Eichner-Gruppe, based in Coburg, that has supplied hospitals, clinics and care homes for more than three decades. The company develops and manufactures medical and care furniture (station, IT and operating-room trolleys, stainless-steel OP equipment), patient documentation and organisation systems (hanging files, documentation maps, planet systems, ID holders) and positioning aids such as anti-decubitus mattresses, cushions and leg splints. Development, production and service are delivered from its Coburg site as part of the family-run Eichner-Gruppe, which also operates the group's plastics and carton production facilities in Germany.

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Zettler

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38 products

Zettler is a German calendar brand founded in 1923 in Schwabmünchen by Emil Zettler, known for high-quality office calendars in book, poster, table and landscape formats such as the Querkalender Giganta and the Natura line. Acquired in 2017 by the Neumann-Wolff group, the brand is now operated by Neumann Verlage GmbH & Co. KG in Kiel alongside the group's other calendar labels. Calendars are produced in the company's own printing house in Schwabmünchen and at the group's Kalenderfabrik Plauen, which runs on hydropower.

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Soennecken

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957 products

Soennecken is a German office-supplies brand owned by the Soennecken eG cooperative, headquartered in Overath. Founded in 1875 by inventor Friedrich Soennecken, the name is now carried by a purchasing cooperative of more than 800 German office-supply retailers that sells a broad own-brand range of office products, including paper, toner and stationery. The company runs logistics centres in Overath and Melsdorf, with products supplied by third-party suppliers. Its environmental management is ISO 14001 certified, and it operates a photovoltaic plant at its Overath site.

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Alassio

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15 products

Alassio is a German brand of leather desk and writing accessories, including desk pads (Schreibunterlage), A4 writing cases such as SAVONA, LAZIO and FANO, pen rolls and business cases. It is a house brand of JÜSCHA GmbH, a family-run supplier of leather goods and stationery founded in 1978 and based in Wermelskirchen, Germany. The range is managed and personalised from the Wermelskirchen headquarters, while production is contracted abroad, with trade data pointing to manufacturing in China and India for different product families.

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