Bidar Trading: The founder:

Mr. Hossein Ghaemi, the founder of Bidar Trading Company, started his career in writing instruments in 1942: the year in which Iran was occupied by Allied forces, making any type of trade extremely challenging. This continued until 1952, which limited his activities to the wholesale of products that he purchased domestically. In the year 1954, he accomplished his initial importation of writing instruments into Iran, which started a new era in his career.

With the passing of several years, in addition to a significant increase in the volume of products he purchased from European manufacturers, Mr. Hossein Ghaemi decided to import products under the brand name of “Orienta”, which he then changed to “Ghaemi”. The Ghaemi Fountain pens enjoyed a significant market share at the time and paved the way for larger sales to provinces other than the country’s capital (Tehran). Several years of trade, along with a reputable name, yielded much more European brand representations such as Senator, Cruiser, Tropen, Geha, Ero, and many more for Bidar. In the 1950s, Mr. Ghaemi signed an exclusivity contract with Lyra pencils. He then imported Lyra under his own brand Shir Neshan (which translates to “Lion” in English).

After being in the writing instruments market for 2 decades, Mr. Ghaemi registered his company Bidar Trading Company in 1963. The new company provided him the venue for more powerful distribution of the brands, he represented in Iran, where EJA, Parker, Inoxcrom, Adel pencils and many more European brands were added to Bidar Trading’s portfolio.

Bidar Trading Company, Today:

Currently, with over 50 years of experience in the writing instruments market, Bidar Trading holds exclusivity on Parker, Waterman, Montegrappa, Filofax, Rhodia, Clairefontaine, Moleskine, and BeneNote notebooks. The products are distributed by Bidar’s own teams. Each team concentrates on separate brands or groups of brands. Each team has its own specific structure of team leaders, sales managers, and product managers. The marketing department supervises each team’s marketing activities, as well as Bidar’s as a whole. With brand-specific agents in each province, distribution covers prestige stores in Tehran and numerous other provinces in Iran. Bidar’s brands are present in the Book City national chain store (with 60 active branches), Hyper Star (the Carrefour rebranded stores in Iran), numerous A and B class book shops, in addition to stationary and pen shops.

By 2017, Bidar has participated in over 30 trade fairs in Iran, and 3 in Dubai.

Bidar Electronics, registered in 2000, concentrating in the education market as the professional visual electronics market was forming after the Iran-Iraq war. Bidar Electronics is considered a pioneer in electronic education systems in Iran. In 2001, Bidar Electronics became the sole distributor of Sanyo’s digital visual products. As technology evolved and data projectors became more sophisticated, DLP projectors, with their small size and economically efficient electric usage, became more in demand of businesses. In 2008, Bidar Electronics switched to Vivitek, a Delta Electronics Brand. Delta Electronics, based in Taiwan (with manufacturing facilities in China, India, Europe and Mexico), is the largest manufacturer of DLP projectors in the world.

Bidar Electronics is currently representing Vivitek DLP Projectors, Elmo Document Cameras from Japan, Dymo label printers from France, and Rocada education flipchart boards and drafting tables from Spain, as well as a large network of service providers for video walls and other video solutions. With a far-sighted view of the future in the Electronics Education market, Bidar Electronics has distribution and sales channels in Tehran and all other provinces in Iran, with full pre and post-sales teams. A notable customer is many public and private sector organizations, as well as schools (ranging from kindergartens to high schools, colleges, and universities). Our products, which all meet international top standards, are also backed up by Bidar’s team of experts.