Deer River Folio continuation

Update: March 2025:

In 2023 we took over operations of Deer River Folio and received all their remaining partially built folders, materials, and machinery.

Our intention was to continue and fill all open orders, and carry on with their most popular versions.  Supply chain issues, worn out DRF machinery problems, and impractical 5-figure minimum supplies orders for producing colors (other than black), with minimal orders for color folders compared to black folders...coupled with an unprofitable year in 2023...changed original plans.

While we do eventually intend to finish up all partially built remaining black and color folders and post them on the web site ... we are now not planning to provide more color folders, as we focus production on a smaller number of very popular folders produced in high volume, to ensure a necessary return to profitability, before the luxury of color options.

The main exception to the above is the large band folder with flappy interior pencil pocket that many people are used to: #73 - we're making that regularly now and you'll see it in our folder line-up. It's still not as popular as our 2-double-stiched pencil loops band folder but people tend to stick with what they know and thousands are moving.

Note, importantly, that the VAST MAJORITY of their folders are already made by us in better versions with improved materials, and reinforcing that didn't exist in DRF's similar folders.  If you were a DRF distributor, I want to talk with you and set you up again to have folders in stock, so your customers can see the quality for themselves. We can imprint for your local customers in record time too.

-Ian Bullen,
President, MUSICFOLDER.com