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Faber-Castell AG is a German privately held multinational manufacturer of , , other office supplies (e.g., , , , )Faber-Castell International. Office Products and art supplies,Faber-Castell International. Products for FineArts and FineWriting as well as high-end writing instruments and luxury leather goods. Headquartered in Stein, Bavaria, Germany, it operates 14 factories and 20 sales units throughout the globe.
The Faber-Castell Group employs a staff of approximately 6,500 and does business in more than 120 countries. The House of Faber-Castell is the family which founded and continues to exercise leadership within the corporation. Faber-Castell manufactures about 2 billion pencils in more than 120 different countries every year.
Lothar opened branches in New York (1849), London (1851), Paris (1855), and expanded into Vienna (1872) and St. Petersburg (1874). The company also began offering products other than pencils, opening a factory in Geroldsgrün, Bavaria, where slide rules were produced, a slate factory in Geroldsgrün, and producing ink and paint in Noisy-le-Sec, near Paris.
Over the next few years, this line developed recognizable branding, featuring the green color of the pencils (chosen to match the color of Alexander's military regiment), a logo depicting a castle, and the motif of two jousting knights, which was used on packaging and in advertising.
This motif originated with a painting, commissioned by Alexander, of two knights jousting with pencils, and would eventually become the inspiration behind the company's current logo. 1908 saw the release of the Polychromos Colored pencil, which continue to be made and widely used today.
In 1939, the Nazi Germany seized the Stein Castle near Nuremberg, previously owned by Count Roland von Faber-Castell, a seventh-generation head of the Faber-Castell pencil manufacturing company. The Nazis removed Count Faber-Castell from his leadership position and reportedly used the castle's bell tower for Allied bombing raid interception. Count Roland von Faber-Castell was drafted into the German military, which resulted in a shift in leadership for the Faber-Castell company. At this time, the first non-family CEO was appointed by the Nazi party. Amidst managerial changes, Count Roland's wife, Nina, converted the company into a sole proprietorship, effectively regaining control. By 1942, the company had been renamed A. W. Faber-Castell.
In the years following World War II, the company expanded internationally into Ireland, Austria, Brazil, Peru, Australia, and Argentina, as well as re-acquiring several subsidiaries which had been lost in wartime. It also began offering new products, such as a mechanical pencil, , Slide rule (instead of wood), and an India ink drawing pen. The Faber-Castell logo was changed in 1950 to an oval design, incorporating the Faber-Castell family crest and the green color which the company had been using since 1905.
Today, the company operates 10 factories and 22 sales units, with six in Europe, four in Asia, three in North America, five in South America, and one each in Australia and New Zealand. The Faber-Castell Group employs a staff of approximately 6,500 and does business in more than 120 countries.
Product lines include: Albrecht Dürer (artists' watercolor products), Castell 9000 (graphite pencils), e-motion (fountain pens), Goldfaber (watercolor pencils, color pencils, graphite pencils, markers), Grip 2001 (graphite pencils), Pitt Artist Pen (pigment ink pens), Polychromos (artists' color pencils), and TK Fine (mechanical pencils).
Faber-Castell is well known for its brand of Pitt Artist . The pens, used by comics and manga artists such as Adam Hughes,Coulson, Steve. "Adam Hughes – Anatomy of a sketch, Pt3 – The Tools" YouTube; May 15, 2006, Accessed September 8, 2010 contain an India ink that is both acid-free and archive, and come in a variety of colors.
The following chart contains all the Faber-Castell product lines.
| (graphite and color), , charcoals, , pencil sharpener, water color markers, India ink based brush pens and fineliners. |
| , , , marker pen, , , pencil sharpener, dough, , , connector pens |
| Mechanical pencils, refills |
| , , , refills |
| , ballpoint pen |
| , diary, creative papers, reams, calendars |
| Pencils (graphite and colour) |
| Erasers, rules and writing equipment, and finetip and colour markers |
| Crayon and drawing accessories |
| Nurseries for pine trees and sawmill |
| Erasers, rules and writing equipment |
| Pencils (graphite and colour), Cosmetics, school line (pencils, sharpeners, poster and finger paints, crayons, markers) technical and fine arts line (permanent markers), office line (highlighter, executive and promotional pens), notebooks and creative papers |
| Erasers, rules and writing equipment, and finetip and colour markers |
| Highlighters and permanent-ink markers (manufacturing, assembly and paints) |
| Research & Development, Asia and Pacific office Sales, school line (pencils, erasers and writing products) |
| Makeup Products |
| school line (sharpeners, erasers and writing instruments) |
| Connector pens and pencils (graphite and color) |
| Research & Development, global sales and marketing office, school line (pencils, erasers and writing products), premium line (graphite and color pencils, watercolor markers, India ink pens, erasers and writing products) |
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