Swedish stationery brand Kikki.K has partnered with product development and design industry leader, Gartner Studios, to accelerate its growth across the USA and Canada.

The retailer is currently housed at 78 Nordstrom stores in the USA and 81 Indigo stores in Canada, with the deal with Gartner to fuel its ambitions of opening an additional 400 wholesale doors across the globe by the end of 2018 and over 3000 wholesale doors over the coming years.

Kikki.K’s partnership with Gartner will ‘simplify and systemise the USA and Canadian product offering and distribution’ for both wholesale and direct to consumer e-commerce fulfilment.

“I’ve dreamt of seeing kikki.K products in the lives of people across the USA & Canada since the very beginning,” said the stationery firm’s founder Kristina Karlsson.

“We made that dream a reality with our online store and then our launch in Nordstrom and Indigo in 2017. I’m so excited we’ve now partnered with Gartner Studios to help introduce our brand to even more of the USA and Canada.”

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