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| Company type | Joint stock company |
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| Industry | industry  |
| Predecessor | Bleistift-Fabrik vorm. Johannes Faber |
| Founded | 1761 |
| Headquarters | Stein (Middle Franconia), Germany |
Key people | Kasper Faber, Founder, Anton Wolfgang Graf von Faber-Castell, CEO |
| Revenue | € 887 million (2005) |
Number of employees | 6.500 (2006) |
Faber-Castell is a German high-end manufacturer of writing instruments, art supplies, staplers,slide rules, and luxury leather goods, founded in 1761 in Nuremberg by Kaspar Faber. The enterprise was in the Faber family for five generations when through the marriage of Count Alexander Castell-Rüdenhausen (1866 - 1928) with Ottilie Baroness von Faber to create the branch of Faber-Castell in 1898. The Faber-Castell family has continued to run the company in the sixth, seventh and eighth generations through now.
Faber-Castell USA is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and is part of the global network of Faber-Castell companies operating in countries such as Australia, Brazil, and Malaysia.[1] Most consumer products from Faber-Castell are made in Malaysia. Only some premium pens are still manufactured in Germany.
Products
Faber-Castell is a manufacturer of wood-cased pencils and operates a pencil factory in São Carlos, Brazil. Products range includes Design, Porsche Design and Graf von Faber-Castell. The Design collection includes Ambition, E-Motion, BASIC, The perfect pencil, UFO, Conic, and k Multifunction. The Porsche Design collection includes P'3110, P'3120, P'3130, P'3140, P'3150, and P'3190.
One of Faber-Castell's most popular products among children is their Connector Pens.
Faber-Castell is also well known for their brand of PITT Artist Pens. The pens use an India ink that is both acid-free and archival and comes in a variety of colors. They also come in several sizes as well as a brush tip. The pens are used largely by comic and manga artists, as well as in many other fields.
Recently, Graf von Faber-Castell have released a line of luxury leather items that include a black leather desk mat, satin-bound writing paper, brown folders, pocket books of various sizes, an leather sheet dividers. The products can be purchased individually or as a complete desk-set, the latter of which retails for over $2000.
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Faber-Castell's Tri-Grip pencils with eraser caps and a sharpener. -
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Faber Castell Polychromos
References
- ^ (http://www.faber-castell.us/14798/About-Us/index_ebene3.aspx From the Faber-Castell web site under about us)
External links
- Faber-Castell homepage Template:De icon
- Faber-Castell international homepage
- Graf von Faber-Castell
- Faber-Castell (USA)
- Faber-Castell (Brazil) Template:Pt icon
- Faber-Castell (Taiwan) Template:Zh icon
- Parkercollector.com (Detailed information about most pen models made by the Parker Pen Company.)
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