Bruna is a Dutch retailer operating 375 shops in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. Selling books, newspapers, magazines, stationery

Stationery

Stationery has historically meant a wide gamut of materials: paper and office supplies, writing implements, greeting cards, glue, pencil case etc.-History of stationery:...

, computer software, and cards. Bruna was launched in 1868. Its head office

Office

An office is generally a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it ; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the...

 is located in Utrecht

Utrecht (city)

Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...

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The Bruna shops have presently no affiliation with the large Dutch publishing company which carries the same name but in the past it was part of the company, which was led by Henk Bruna

Henk Bruna

Henk Bruna was a Dutch publisher and director of the stationery and bookstore chain Bruna. He was a brother of A.W...

from 1935 till 1982.