Moleskine
The current Moleskine logo as of August 2016.
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| Società per azioni | |
| Traded as | BIT: MSK |
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| Founded | 1997 |
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| Headquarters | Viale Stelvio 66, Milan, 20159, Italy |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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| Revenue |
 €129M (2015) |
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€34.81M (2015) |
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| Profit |
€27.124M (2015) |
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Number of employees
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363 (2015) |
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| Website | moleskine.com/en |
Moleskine (Italian pronunciation: [mɔleˈskiːne]) is an Italian manufacturer, papermaker and product designer founded in 1997 by Maria Sebregondi, based in Milan, Italy. It produces and designs luxury notebooks, and also includes planners, journals, sketchbooks, leather backpacks, wallets and various accessories and stationery.
Coordinates: 45°29′43.6″N 9°10′57.3″E / 45.495444°N 9.182583°EMoleskine's notebooks are stylised to follow the aesthetics of a 'traditional' black notebook with rounded corners and ivory-coloured paper. They are bound in cardboard with a sewn spine that allows the notebook to lie flat. An elastic band is used to seal, and a ribbon bookmark is included along with an expandable pocket inside the rear cover which is packed in a paper banderole.
The name Moleskine does not have an official pronunciation in any other language except Italian.
In the mid-1990s, co-founder Maria Sebregondi pitched the idea of resurrecting the iconic notebooks to the company Modo & Modo, despite the shelves of stationery stores already being stocked with blank books at the time. As a result, Modo & Modo trademarked the Moleskine brand and began production of 5,000 notebooks, officially reintroducing them in 1997.
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