Quo Vadis History
The Agenda Planning® is born
Doctor Francis Georges Beltrami invented for his personal use, a new concept to facilitate time management. This new concept called “Agenda Planning®” allows the user to visualise his whole week of meetings on 2 pages. Dr. Beltrami made his first diary by stamping the blank pages of a workbook with a stamp representing his new grid “Agenda Planning®”.
The creation of Quo Vadis Editions
The interest that his family and friends showed for his invention decided Dr. Beltrami to go one step further and to manufacture his invention. For this, he created Quo Vadis Editions in Marseille, France in 1954. His diary with a one week on two pages grid and structured with spaces indicating times and actions to be taken, was the source of many patent filings in France as well as in many other countries.
Honour prize
Together with the Citroën DS and the IBM typewriter, the Quo Vadis diary is chosen to receive the honour prize for being one of the great products of the Twentieth century during the Art and Industry exhibition at the Louvre museum in Paris.
Quo Vadis opens up in Canada
International presence
From now on, Quo Vadis diaries are printed in English, German, Italian, Spanish and are commercialized throughout the world.
Exacompta-Clairefontaine
This is the year when Quo Vadis joins the Exacompta-Clairefontaine group
Quo Vadis becomes certified PEFC
Quo Vadis obtains its certification by PEFC council for the chain of traceability of its paper. This certification insures that the forest from which the trees are cut has obtained a certificate for its long term management.
Quo Vadis today
Throughout the years, Quo Vadis has acquired an expertise recognized world-wide for its conception, its manufacturing and its commercialization of diaries and other high end paper products.
For the Canadian market, Quo Vadis offers a variety of more than 25 different diaries which are entirely aimed at satisfying our needs to organize time (daily, weekly or monthly); depending on the customer’s life style, professional activity and psychological profile. Our collection offers also a wide choice of licenses and a spread of stylish covers with more than 35 different materials and colours to suit everyone’s needs.