The Filofax, one of the ultimate symbols of yuppie aspiration, is back, according to retailers who reported sales of the personal organiser have taken off after finding favour with women.

And the Filofax is not completely trapped in the 1980s. You can now synchronise your Filofax with Microsoft Outlook and other email programmes. A £12.50 piece of software will convert all your ...

In 2001, Filofax was a $30m global brand going from strength to strength, but then in 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone, a watershed moment for a business like Filofax and for the wider paper ...

The Dalkeith-based company, whose brands include the filofax personal organiser and Letts diaries, has been approached for comment. Unite said 95.7% of the eligible workforce backed strike action ...

Once the must-have accessory in the 1980s, Filofax was bought by diaries group Letts in 2001 before Mr Presly secured a £50 million management buyout backed by Phoenix seven years ago.

It may come as a shock to find out that the origins of the Filofax go back over 80 years. In 1921, a London-based company began marketing organisation systems in the UK by mail order. In 1930 the ...

Letts Filofax, which is based in Dalkeith near Edinburgh, made pre-tax profits of £2.1 million on sales of £53 million in the year to January 2012.