It was the ultimate symbol of Eighties opulence, and its fortunes have been nothing if not boom and bust. Filofax Group, maker of the leather-bound organisers, is being sold by its struggling American ...

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 ...

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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.