Lyreco’s history begins in 1926, when Georges-Gaston Gaspard opened a bookstore called Gaspard in Valenciennes, France. The business expanded into printing and paper products, began direct delivery from its first warehouse in 1936 and developed into a business-to-business office-products supplier after the Second World War. International expansion began with the acquisition of Vermeire in Belgium in 1989, and the Gaspard company adopted the Lyreco name in 2001. The group remains privately owned and in 2026 marked its centenary as an international provider of workplace products and solutions.
Its current group headquarters contact is in Marly, near Valenciennes. Lyreco is best understood as a business-to-business workplace supplier rather than a conventional consumer office-supplies retailer. Its offering can include stationery, paper, furniture, technology and print supplies, hygiene and cleaning, coffee and catering, personal protective equipment, safety products and related workplace services. Exact catalogs and services differ substantially by country because Lyreco operates through local subsidiaries and distribution partners. A product, price, delivery promise, return rule, customer-service phone number or e-procurement feature shown on one national Lyreco site should therefore not be generalized to another market.
Business customers often buy under negotiated account terms, catalog agreements, procurement integrations or delivery schedules, and those contract terms can override a generic public-site summary. The correct support route is normally the local Lyreco operation shown on the invoice or customer account. For group-level matters or questions spanning multiple countries, Lyreco publishes a central contact form and its Marly headquarters telephone number, +33 3 27 23 64 00. Country sites publish their own sales and customer-service details. Lyreco’s business also includes private-label products and acquired specialist operations, so the presence of a supplier’s product in the catalog does not mean Lyreco manufactured it.
Product warranties, safety certifications and technical documentation should be checked against the exact manufacturer and item. That is especially important for personal protective equipment and industrial products, where standards and declarations can be product-specific. The company’s sustainability programs and product-selection methodologies have evolved over time, and current environmental labels or selection criteria should be described from the current national or group documentation rather than from old catalog language. International coverage, employee totals and stock counts are also moving figures. The durable facts are the 1926 Gaspard origin, 2001 adoption of the Lyreco name, family/private ownership and Marly headquarters.
Business customers should protect account credentials and purchase-order data, verify bank-detail changes through an established contact and be cautious with unsolicited messages claiming that supplier payment details have changed. For a concrete order or invoice issue, the local subsidiary, account manager, invoice and contract are the controlling references; for corporate identity and group-level questions, lyreco.com and the group contact page are the appropriate sources.
