The company facts & figures

Faber-Castell is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and sellers of high-quality products for writing, colouring, and creative design – a famous name all over the world. The international group of companies was originally founded over 247 years ago (in 1761) as a pencil factory in Stein near Nuremberg. It is thus one of world’s oldest industrial companies; it is now headed by Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell, the 8th generation of his family to do so.

The Faber-Castell group produces over 2,000 million black-lead and colour pencils a year, making it the world’s major manufacturer in its core field of wood-cased pencils. 2500 different articles, ranging from wax crayons for children to exclusive fountain pens are divided in product categories with five fields of competence (“Playing & Learning”, “Art & Graphic”, “Premium”, “General Writing” and “Marking”). Faber-Castell employs some 7,000 people in 14 production sites and 20 sales organizations. The total includes roughly 2,800 who work for the Brazilian company in São Carlos and São Paulo (500 of them involved in a unique forestry project near Prata in Minas Gerais state).