RANGE HISTORY

What did our customers put in their shopping bag 1999?

What did Deskstore sell during the first years?

Our range change continously. Some itemes are discontinued and other stays. In fact, quite a lot of items that was in our starting range are still in our range.

It all started with a collection of own designed notebooks and files with linen cover in selected colours. Produced in the Netherlands.

The range expanded quickly. Among our first suppliers was El Casco, J Herbin, Tombow, Midori, Moleskine, Folle, Rexite, Cleverline, Rotring, Rolodex, Gmund, Opto, Rapid, Diplomat and Wörther.

Example from our range 1999

Moleskine

Moleskine notebooks was Deskstore's first bestseller. Modo e Modo had just started the production of the modern version of the classic Moleskine notebook.

Deskstore was one of the first retailer to sell Moleskine - and we quickly had custumers buying the notebooks from all over the world.

Moleskine notebooks from 1999 and our pens from Japan.

Cable Management - Cable Turtles

The Dutch product - Cable Turtle - cable winder - has been on our bestseller list since the very beginning.

Red Cable Turtle from Cleverline.

CD Storage

We sold a lot of different kinds of CD storage in the beginning.

One of the favorits was CD-Bago from Golla, Finland. It was available in many colours. Today Golla mostly produce items for cell phones.

The CD binder in aluminium is still in our range.

Golla CD-Bago and Deskstore's CD binder.

El Casco and Spalding

Already from start we sold staplers and other high quality office items from El Casco. This beautiful silver-grey little stapler is still a favourite.

We also sold pens from Spalding. Good looking pens in aluminium. The most popular pen was the short one that was perfect to keep with a Filofax.

El Casco stapler, yellow tape and a high-lighter from Spalding.

Pens and stationery from Japan.

We had many items from Japan in our first range.

From for example Midori and Tombow.

Black pencils in paper tube from Japan.

Ink from Herbin and pens from Wörther

We sold ink in beautiful glas bottles from J Herbin, France and fountainpens from Wörher, Germany.

Ink and refills from Herbin and fountainpen from Worther.

Hompage Deskstore.com April 2009.