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Scribe began as a single Manila store opened by founder Marian Ong in 2009, grew into Scribe Writing Essentials with outlets across Metro Manila and Cebu, then rebranded simply as Scribe. It stocks fountain pens and inks from Pelikan, Sailor, Platinum, TWSBI and Kaweco.

Scribe traces its start to 2009, when founder Marian Ong opened a single retail store in Metro Manila. Operating as Scribe Writing Essentials, the business expanded quickly: within roughly a year of its first location at Eastwood Mall in Quezon City, four more stores had opened, and the chain eventually reached seven locations — five in Metro Manila, including one in Makati, and two in Cebu. The company marked that growth with a rebranding event at Shangri-La Plaza in March 2014, after which it began presenting itself simply as Scribe.

The retailer built its reputation on a wide selection of specialist fountain-pen brands not always easy to find in the Philippines, including Pelikan, Sailor and Platinum from Japan, along with TWSBI, Kaweco, J. Herbin and Noodler's. Its current catalog extends into calligraphy supplies, notebooks and journals, including Japanese stationery lines such as Midori, Hobonichi and Traveler's Notebook, positioning Scribe as a broader analog-writing destination rather than a pens-only shop.

Scribe ships within the Philippines and internationally, and describes its mission as enhancing the "whole writing experience" for a customer base it has actively courted among younger, millennial buyers — part of a wider positioning of fountain-pen and fine-stationery retail as a deliberate, analog counterpoint to digital writing tools.

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