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Giftable Stationery
Giftable Stationery Notebooks get personal
The Personalised Memento Company
New to The Personalised Memento Company is this Personalised Navy & Blush A5 Notebook. A great gift for any occasion, the notebook is spiral-bound with double-sided lined pages that can be easily turned and remain completely flat during use. It’s suitable for taking notes, writing to-do lists, or for jotting down ideas.
Providing the perfect personalised gifts for all occasions and recipients is one of Personalised Memento Company’s core aims. With a growing range of on trend giftware and selling solutions to suit all retailers, there has never been a better time to sell personalised gifts. Visit PMC’s trade website to register for your account and get started. Email: sales@personalisedmemento.co.uk Visit: www.personalisedmemento.co.uk
Heading back to school
Puckator
The back-to-school season is right around the corner: that wonderful time when children all over the country choose which stationery will define their next academic year. They need look no further than Puckator’s latest selection of fun and colourful ranges.
The designs cover a wide variety of tastes and ages. For video game obsessed kids, the Game Over range will be a sure thing with its pixelated graphics. Or if cute, cuddly animals are more their thing, then check out Adoramals. There are also furry monster notebooks, and colouring pencils. But a stationery highlight has to be the fun novelty pens and pencils which range from light-up unicorns to wibbly-wobbly dinosaurs.
From pens and pencils to notepads and cases, take a look at Puckator’s website to see what’s in store. Call: 0800 011 6969 Email: customerservices@puckator.co.uk Visit: www.puckator.co.uk
Calling lovers of wildlife!
Gift Wild
Gift Wild creates eco-friendly cards and gifts that donate 10% to conservation charities. The company aims to be a safe shopping haven for wildlife lovers who want to celebrate nature and support it too.
Its collection of A5 notebooks is made from 100% recycled paper, printed using vegan inks, and packaged plastic-free. The 18 stunning designs in the collection support different wildlife charities and are made in the UK. Email: info@giftwild.co.uk Visit: www.giftwild.co.uk
Giftable Stationery For ink
connoisseurs
For those looking for an alternative to traditional sweet and scented gifts such as chocolate and perfume, the Jacques Herbin scented inks gift box presents five elegant 10ml bottles - each with a delightful floral or fruity aroma.
The inks are made using hydrosols which are water-based and made from the distillation of fresh flowers, fruits, and other plant materials, making them an eco-friendly choice and a joy to ink connoisseurs. They contain no pigments and are naturally and delicately scented with different aromas and colours: blue with lavender scent, brown with cocoa scent, red with rose scent, amber with orange scent, and purple with violet scent. Jacques Herbin has also recently added a lemon scented bright green ink to the range, which is available as individual bottles. Scented inks give an extra dimension to the pleasures of using a fountain pen and bottled ink to write, not only for the scribe, but for recipients too. This collection makes a perfect gift not only for ink lovers, but also for those wishing to experience the joy of escaping technology for a while by writing or drawing with pen and ink. For more than 350 years, Jacques Herbin has manufactured inks and sealing waxes in the heart of Paris, earning a worldwide reputation for exceptional quality. Today, the company offers a vast range of writing inks in 35 shades from soft and bright to dark and deep. To complement the inks, Jacques Herbin also offers contemporary and traditional writing instruments including dip pens and quills, plus prestige pen and ink gift sets including traditional wooden box sets.
Rhodia rolls out soft desk mats
ExaClair, the UK supplier of Rhodia notebooks and accessories, has added a selection of soft desk mats to its range of premium quality stationery.
Perfect for hybrid workers on the move, the soft leatherette desk mats can be rolled up, with the matching strap and metal closure keeping them secure when travelling between the office and home.
The mats feature orange stitching around the edge and an embossed Rhodia logo, with the reverse side coloured in a distinctive orange leatherette. They are available in 3 sizes: small (60x35cm), medium (80x40cm) and large (90x43cm), and 16 vivid shades including Rhodia’s new metallic colours.
The Rhodia home office range also includes pen pots, letter holders, magazine racks, wastepaper bins, drawer sets and mobile phone stands for a completely co-ordinated look.
ExaClair marketing manager Lawrence Savage said: “The roll up desk mats were developed with the current trend for hybrid or flex working in mind, making it easier for users to create their ideal office environment - whether at the workplace or home.”
A touch of luxury
ExaClair, the UK subsidiary of the Exacompta Clairefontaine group, has launched a selection of notebooks to extend the Triomphe range, which remains true to Clairefontaine’s ethos to offer quality, style and excellence.
The elegant notebooks are available in A5 and A4 sizes across both gold and platinum editions, which feature a traditional sewn spine and the PEFC-certified Clairefontaine 90gsm brushed vellum paper that’s loved by pen fans globally.
The gold edition has pure white covers with gold embossing and contains 96 white pages, while the platinum edition has deep blue covers with silver embossing and contains 96 ivory pages. Each edition is available in a choice of lined or blank pages.
Giftable Stationery ‘A surprise hit’
Museums & Galleries
Museums & Galleries continues to innovate within its comprehensive range of designs for cards, gifts and stationery - and now a collection of jigsaw puzzles has been added to the mix - with art still very much at the core
Museums & Galleries (M&G) launched in the 1980s with the aim of bringing the gems of the world’s museums to beautifully made and produced cards and stationery for the high street. It remains true to this mission, but over the years the company has expanded both its product portfolio and the variety of art it publishes.
Today it has a retail offer covering a wide spectrum, from heritage fine art to contemporary fashion design, old masters to contemporary artists and illustrators, and anonymous archival discoveries to the most prestigious of fine art museum brands.
Jigsaw puzzles have proved to be a surprise hit for M&G this year, with the launch range of eight puzzles flying out instantly and necessitating a prompt reprint across the board.
What is it about jigsaw puzzles that connects with a modern audience? There has been a resurgence of interest in analogue activities that take us away from digital screens and back into the real world of connectivity. A jigsaw is perfect for this - one can work on it alone or with a partner, and leave it and come back. It’s a doable challenge which results in a feeling of accomplishment, and takes us away from everyday cares.
M&G excels in sourcing classic and unusual (even unique) imagery suited to the puzzle format, and creative director Ben Dorney’s team selected high-impact images with proven sales records across gift ranges.
Together with partners such as the V&A Museum, Natural History Museum, British Museum, Tate Gallery, The British Library, and interior designer Matthew Williamson, M&G has curated a stunning mix of designs that appeals to sophisticated art and design lovers.
Each puzzle is made up of 1,000 pieces, with the finished work measuring 69cm by 50cm. But the company has designed reusable printed boxes, which have a printed liner, to be a smaller retailfriendly size. Such has been the response to the first selection that the team is already hard at work with a refresh on its way. Call: 01373 462165 Email: sales@mgml.co.uk Visit: www.museumsgalleries.co.uk