A Statement from Modo & Modo S.p.a. on Quality Control and other Issues
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more this year, since we had something to celebrate after the World
Cup!) we received 37 several e-mails. There also has been some
discussion on several Internet groups: Google and Flickr among others.
We just got back and here we are answering our customers having trouble
with their Moleskine Notebooks. First of all, WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE
SILENCE, but - like many Moleskiners may already know - we are a
very small company: 15 people total! And we personally follow the
customer care.
Since the beginning of this year we have received and answered 370
emails on different topics. We will answer each one of you, please be
patient.
Quality Control
As always we're checking, with almost obsessive care, the quality of
our products. The notebooks details and characteristics require a lot
of precision. This year, in particular, to improve the control on the
production we introduced a new procedure to make sure that our
notebooks are well hand crafted. Despite the small company size, we are
manufacturing and ensuring quality of large quantities: only this year
over 5,223,000 notebooks were released and are traveling around the
world!
Starting last June we added a number printed on the Moleskine flyer
(see image above), which allows us to identify the time, place and lot
of production. This enables us to address any possible problems
pertaining to a specific batch. If you don't have this flyer in your
notebook, you will, as soon as the inventory in the shops updates.
Online feedback form
We are putting in place a feedback form for you to specify precisely
problems with paper, binding, print etc. This form will be very
important for sustaining our efforts in keeping and increasing the
quality of our products.
Thanks for your comments!
It's you, the moleskiners' community, which is the real strength of
our brand and the warranty of quality of our notebooks. You help us
identify problems and address them. It is also you who bring ideas and
help us discover new ways of using Moleskine.
In the next few days we will be in touch and talk about:
1 - production in China
2 - company plans with the new owner Société Générale Capital
3 - prices
We would like to keep the dialog going - we always welcome your
suggestions and comments.
Modo & Modo S.p.a.
30 August 2005 1.15 PM CST
PERMANENT INDEX PAGE ON MOLESKINERIE IS HERE:
http://www.moleskinerie.com/moleskine_quality_control/index.html
Keiko
Daly de Gagne
Now if Moleskineus could respond to those of us who wrote them several
times...
Failure to respond should be considered grounds for not permitting them
to sell the product any more...
Mistakingly I had written to them thinking they were the US distributor...
I'm glad I found out it was Kikkerland because they responded right away....
One can only wonder how damage Moleskineus has caused for the Moleskine
brand.
Daly
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through to modo&modo (cover was on back to front) and have received
very promptly an email response and today a parcel (with some very
interesting stamps) containing 3 replacement cahiers and a nice note.
So I am very happy with their customer service!
:-)