When high profile UK-based newspaper The Guardian featured the satchel in its annual holiday gift guide, orders spiked.

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It added that customer orders and gift vouchers would be honoured.

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They were bombarded with orders from small toy and gift shops and landed their first big account with Tower Records, the now defunct music chain.

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