In the 80s and 90s a Filofax was the ultimate aspiration symbol. The leather-bound refillable diary sent a social cue that you meant business. Just like the pager or the brick phone, it told people ...

It’s like the 1980s never ended. Electropop rules the airwaves, rolled-up jacket sleeves are de rigueur, Torvill and Dean are on the telly and the Tories have a spring in their step once again. But ...

For a few years in the mid-1980s, the leather-bound Filofax diary and address book was a coveted fashion accessory, displayed in posh department stores from London to Tokyo. That fad was largely the ...

FILOFAX and diary maker Charles Letts & Co has reported a loss of £2.1 million in its most recent financial year. Accounts filed at Companies House show turnover of £24.5m in a 15 month period to ...

As much a part of the 1980s as huge, clunky mobile phones and shoulder pads, the Filofax is a product that you might expect to have been quietly consigned to the bargain bin before being fully exiled ...

LETTS Filofax Group, the venerable Dalkeith-based diary publisher, has been bought by HSGP Investments, a company owned by Letts chief executive Gordon Presly and Canadian stationery entrepreneur ...

A Filofax was once the must-have accessory for the young and upwardly mobile in the Eighties. Now the maker of the personal organiser has been sold to rival Letts, which makes diaries, for just £17m.

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