Magazine Files & Holders
Anything slim that won't stand on its own - catalogues, journals, manuals, thin folders - stands up in a magazine holder. The range runs from flat-packed cardboard through wipe-clean polypropylene and rigid mesh to multi-compartment organisers, wall pockets and classroom book boxes, with file sorters next door for the folders you work from daily.
A magazine holder (also called a magazine file) is an open-backed upright box that keeps slim items vertical on a desk or shelf — magazines, journals, catalogues, instruction manuals, thin ring binders and unbound paper in folders. The angled front edge leaves spines readable and contents easy to lift out without disturbing the rest of the shelf.
Cardboard holders like the FM No.3 and No.5 are the budget pick and arrive flat-packed — right for shelves where holders sit untouched once filled. Polypropylene from Marbig and Italplast wipes clean and takes daily handling without softening at the corners. Esselte's metal mesh is the most rigid of the three and suits reception and front-of-office shelving where appearance matters.
A magazine holder is one open compartment for items stored together as a set. A file sorter has multiple slots or steps that keep individual folders separated and visible, which suits active paperwork you pull from all day. The three and four-compartment magazine racks sit between the two, dividing one holder into sections.
The FM Premium expanding holder concertinas into thirteen pockets inside a single holder's footprint — effectively a filing system that stands on a shelf. It suits monthly paperwork, one pocket per client, or any sorting job that would otherwise need a rack of separate boxes.
Book boxes are wider, taller magazine holders sized for picture books and reader sets. Teachers run one per student or reading group — the Marbig book boxes in small and large five-packs and the Elizabeth Richards classroom magazine boxes are bought in class sets for exactly this, and the colour options let each group spot its own box.
Most screw to the wall through keyhole slots — into studs or wall anchors — and several models stack vertically, so a column can grow as the paperwork does. They suit corridors, clinics, workshops and classroom doors where forms need to live at the point of use rather than on a desk.
On the desk, on the wall, or in the classroom
The fix for everything that flops over
Slim documents don't shelve. Magazines slide, manuals splay, catalogues curl, and thin folders disappear between bigger ones. A magazine holder ends that — one open-backed box, contents upright, spines out, the angled front edge keeping every title readable. It's the simplest piece of storage in the office and the one that does the most visible tidying per dollar.
Cardboard for the shelf, plastic and mesh for the desk
FM's No.3 and No.5 cardboard holders are the volume buy: flat-packed, assembled in seconds, cheap enough to line a whole wall of back-office shelving. The No.5 runs wider for thicker sets and softer covers. Where holders get handled daily, step up to polypropylene — Marbig's holders and Italplast's clear and recycled greenR lines wipe clean and keep their shape — or to Esselte's metal mesh, the most rigid option and the one that looks the part on a reception shelf. OSC's folding holders split the difference, storing flat between busy seasons.
One slot, four slots or thirteen
Multi-compartment holders divide a single footprint into three or four sections — enough to separate a small team's paperwork without a rack of boxes. The FM Premium expanding holder goes furthest, concertinaing into thirteen pockets inside one holder's width: a month-per-pocket system, or one client per slot, standing on an ordinary shelf. Collapsible models fold flat in a drawer until the next intake of paperwork. For folders pulled and re-filed all day, a step file or sorter rack is the better tool — each folder gets its own slot at a readable angle.
Wall pockets put paperwork at the point of use
Forms outside a clinic room, dockets beside the workshop door, handouts where students actually pick them up — wall pockets do the magazine holder's job vertically and off the desk entirely. The stackable models extend downward one pocket at a time, and book racks cover display jobs where covers should face out rather than spines.
Book boxes are the classroom standard
In schools this category has its own dialect. Book boxes — wider and taller than office magazine files — hold picture books and levelled reader sets, one box per student or group. The Marbig small and large five-packs and Elizabeth Richards classroom magazine boxes are sized and priced for class sets, and colour-coding the groups happens for free. School and bulk orders qualify for Business Pass account pricing with credit terms, and orders over $30 ship free anywhere in NZ.
Magazine holders keep slim things upright; stackable letter trays keep flat paper moving; lidded archive boxes take what's finished. The full archive and storage collection ties the system together — and as an NZ-owned supplier we hold stock locally, with click and collect in Auckland and Christchurch.
