Getting to Know Victor Stationery

Manufacturing that makes a difference

Starting life as a bookshop in Belfast in 1882, family-owned Victor Stationery has been making high-quality paper stationery and exercise books since the early 1920s. We are on a mission to assist people of all ages to improve their learning and communications through our robust, fit-for-purpose exercise books, notebooks and pads. Backed by a lifetime warranty and a strong commitment to sustainable sourcing, our paper stationery is made to last and it’s made to last without compromising natural resources or the environment for future generations.

Our sustainable stationery brands

You may not know us as Victor Stationery. We manufacture a wide range of exercise books, notebooks and pads under different brand names, all tied together under our company vision to provide high-quality, sustainable paper stationery.

RHINO Stationery

Our market-leading brand, RHINO offers high-performance, quality exercise books catering to all subjects and school years. We make a variety of sizes and page counts to standard British school rulings, which are all made with 100% recycled manilla covers, PEFC paper and printed with solvent-free ink. We also make office stationery, pads, paper and notebooks serving a variety of professional and commercial markets as well as personal needs.

Take a look at some of our RHINO ranges below:

RHINO Education

RHINO Everyday

RHINO Recycled

RHINO SEN

RHINO EU

Aisling Stationery

Joining the Victor Stationery family in 1968, the iconic Aisling copybooks remain a high street favourite and are readily available across Ireland. Going beyond their brand familiarity, the copybooks are uniquely designed to support the Irish curriculum with both Irish and English language text on the covers, fostering bilingual learning and enriching the educational experience for Irish students. Working with the Tree Council of Ireland, the Aisling Forest project pledges to plant a tree for every school in Ireland.

We’ve been proudly featuring the Tree Council of Ireland’s logo and native tree facts on the back of our Aisling copybooks for decades, raising awareness and supporting their mission of nurturing a thriving tree culture in Ireland. This year, we pledged to plant a tree for every school in Ireland.

My Own Stationery

My Own Stationery empowers you to bring your ideas to life with range of personalised notepads. You’ll find all the tools you need to start crafting a unique gift, a personal notebook or a branded company notepad over on our user-friendly website. Guiding you seamlessly through the creation process from start to finish, you can customise your notepad cover with text, colours and graphics or upload your own artwork. And it’s all made to your design using high-quality, sustainable materials.

We make high-quality paper stationery

With over 100 years’ experience in production, we’re experts in paper stationery and we’re always looking to refine and improve our products and processes. Our purpose-built factory in Tallinn, Estonia, has helped us to bring high-quality, sustainable paper stationery to the world, ensuring a consistent supply chain and closing the gap between forest and factory.

Operating under our philosophy of ‘Lean’ – to create more with less – sustainable practices underpin every part of our supply chain, and that includes our factory. We source all our materials from sustainably managed forests and follow best practices to ensure waste is minimised throughout the production process. In fact, the factory has achieved both FSC and PEFC certifications along with the Swan Label accreditation, reflecting the high environmental and production standards we set ourselves.

We help preserve the environment

Sustainability is at the centre of our business ethic. As well as our pioneering, environmentally-friendly factory in Estonia, we’re always investing in ways to minimise our impact on the planet, throughout our supply chain.

In 2018, we began working towards removing single-use plastic from our products and packaging. In 2020, we replaced all the plastic shrink-wrap on our RHINO exercise books with biodegradable paper banding, saving over 60 tonnes of single-use plastic per year!

Our paper stationery and exercise books are made with the full product lifecycle and its impact in mind. They’re printed using water-based, solvent-free inks on recyclable materials and are in nearly all cases, 100% recyclable themselves. The lifetime warranty and high-quality construction ensures they’re robust and built to last, minimising waste while the product is in use.

We work with charities

We’re committed to supporting causes that align with our ethos and values. Our partnership with Save the Rhino International has just celebrated a milestone donation of over £100,000. Save the Rhino International work to protect all five species of rhino across Africa and Asia, and we have been printing their logo on the back of every RHINO exercise book since 2006, with the aim of raising awareness amongst children and teachers.

#BuyingRhinoSavesRhinos

We’ve been proudly featuring the Tree Council of Ireland’s logo and native tree facts on the back of our Aisling copybooks for decades, raising awareness and supporting their mission of nurturing a thriving tree culture in Ireland. This year, we pledged to plant a tree for every school in Ireland.

#BuyingAislingProtectsTrees

We support School in a Bag and have donated RHINO exercise books which were packed and sent to disadvantaged children across the world.

#SchoolInABag

We can help you…

Easily access high-quality, sustainable paper stationery

With our industry-leading production processes, rigorous quality assurance and sustainable supply chain, we offer over 450 high-quality and sustainably-sourced RHINO branded products to the Education, Retail and Commercial markets.

Get reliable, flexible and rapid deliveries through our UK network

We operate a fully-stocked UK distribution centre offering rapid delivery lead times and drop shipping capabilities. Supplying customers with orders starting at just one carton, we’re able to ensure quick and reliable deliveries straight to your doorstep.

Meet your stationery supply needs and sustainability targets

As one of Europe’s largest and most experienced manufacturers, we bring our environmentally-friendly supply chain closer, offering greater consistency and minimising your supply challenges while making sure you meet your sustainability targets.

Get the right support when you need it

From product and supply chain support through our customer services team, right through to product development and working with you to create own label ranges, we work closely with you to get you exactly what you need, when you need it.

If you’d like to work together or find out more about how we can help, get in contact here.

There’s so much more to know about Victor Stationery. Over the coming months, we’ll be taking some deep dives into various aspects of our business here on the blog. Look out for new, in-depth posts on sustainability, our charity partnerships, new ranges and so much more.