A few years ago M&G, a brand I have previously only seen in Shanghai, started to make its appearance in some local shops. It is still pretty uncommon to see M&G pens here in the UK, at least with M&G being mentioned on the pen or packaging, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some no name pens you can buy here are actually are from M&G.
Deli, another Chinese brand, has already entered the West as on OEM for some famous brands like Faber-Castell and Koh-I-Noor. I have previously looked at Deli’s sharpeners: the 0620 might be the original classroom friendly sharpener, the 0668 is great if you don’t want your sharpener to produce too acute a point and don’t mind a quirky look and the 0635 is a personal favourite of mine.
Now Deli also seems to become more easy to get hold of in the West, this time for another product that is not directly linked to pencils. This time this is thanks to Amazon. When I needed some Sellotape (a brand name that is used as a generic term in the UK, the US equivalent is Scotch tape and the German equivalent is Tesa) I thought I give Amazon’s own brand a try. Amazon Basics tape was similarly priced to other brands, but I was keen on trying out a taped I hadn’t tried before – there might be some good stuff out there I missed so far.
I haven’t used used much yet, it just arrived this week, but so far I am quite happy with this tape.
Coming soon to a Bleistift blog near you:
Puma’s Kakikata pencils.
