Who owns Paperblanks?
Paperblanks is owned by Lagardère (France, EPA: MMB), which has owned the brand since 2022.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: 2025 Universal Registration Document, Lagardère SA, 31 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Lagardère SA reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇫🇷 France, Paris
- Origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- Category
- Home care › Household goods & storage › Writing instruments & office
- Parent ticker
- EPA: MMB
- Trademark registrant
- Hartley and Marks Publishers Limited (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Paperblanks
Paperblanks makes hardbound journals, diaries and notebooks whose covers reproduce bookbindings, manuscripts and decorative designs from museum collections. Lagardère Publishing bought it in 2022 as a move into markets adjacent to book publishing, and describes it as the world's number two in premium stationery. It sits alongside the group's board game business as the other main non-book line.
Trademark record for Paperblanks
The USPTO record for the Paperblanks mark lists Hartley and Marks Publishers Limited as the owner of record (serial number 97151206). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Paperblanks
Where Paperblanks sits in Lagardère
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Lagardère
Lagardère controls 21 brands on Brandtree.
- Aelia Duty Free
- Bragelonne (2000)
- Calmann-Lévy (1836)
- ELLE (1945)
- Europe 1 (1955)
- Europe 2
- Fayard (1857)
- Grasset (1907)
- Grupo Anaya (1988)
- Hachette Book Group
- Hachette Livre (1826)
- Hachette UK
Other brands in writing instruments & office, and who owns them
The 56 brands in writing instruments & office on Brandtree belong to 16 owners. The largest is F.I.L.A., with 15.
About the owner: Lagardère
Lagardère is a publicly listed company headquartered in Paris, France, founded in 1992. Brandtree records 21 brands under its control, and it is listed as EPA: MMB.
Lagardère is a French group created in 1992 and built around two businesses: Lagardère Publishing, the world's third-largest consumer publishing group, and Lagardère Travel Retail, which runs more than 4,800 shops in around 1,000 airports and railway stations. A smaller Lagardère Live segment holds the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, the ELLE trademark and the radio stations Europe 1, Europe 2 and RFM. The group has more than 33,000 employees in over 50 countries. Since the December 2024 demerger of Vivendi, its controlling shareholder has been Louis Hachette Group, which holds about two-thirds of the capital.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Paperblanks?
The parent company of Paperblanks is Lagardère, a publicly listed company headquartered in France.
Is Paperblanks Canadian or French?
Paperblanks originated in Canada, but it is owned today by Lagardère, which is headquartered in France. So Paperblanks is a Canadian-origin brand under French ownership.
Since when has Lagardère owned Paperblanks?
Lagardère has owned Paperblanks since 2022.
Is Paperblanks still owned by Lagardère?
Yes. As of 28 September 2026, Paperblanks is still owned by Lagardère. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] 2025 Universal Registration Document — Lagardère SA, Annual report, published 31 March 2026; retrieved 28 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: PAPERBLANKS, serial 97151206, registration 7083480 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 28 September 2026.
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