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Faber-Castell is a German family-owned stationery and art-supplies manufacturer founded in 1761 in Stein, Bavaria, and still controlled by the ninth generation of the von Faber-Castell family. The company produces roughly two billion pencils annually alongside pens, markers, paints, and luxury writing instruments, employing about 6,500 people worldwide. Core product development is centred in Stein, Germany, with an additional R&D office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Manufacturing spans eleven countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, with the historic Stein plant handling premium pencil lines and regional plants covering school, office, and cosmetic product families.

973 products

Kores is a family-owned school and office supplies brand founded in Vienna in 1887 by Wilhelm Koreska, now operating under the Swiss Kores Holding Zug AG and run by the Koreska family in its fourth generation. The company designs and sells more than 585 products — correction tapes and pens, glues, colouring and writing instruments, carbon paper and office accessories — in over 85 countries. Production runs at its own plants in Strmilov, Czech Republic, and Naucalpan, Mexico, and its eco glue sticks are made from renewable resources and carry the Austrian Ecolabel.

928 products

STABILO is a German stationery brand making pens, markers, highlighters, pencils and digital writing tools, owned by the Schwan-STABILO Group under the Schwanhäußer Industrie Holding in Heroldsberg near Nuremberg. The family-controlled company develops its products in Germany and manufactures its pens in its own plants in Germany, the Czech Republic and Malaysia, selling in more than 180 countries.

741 products

Maped is a French family-owned stationery brand founded in 1947 in Annecy, now led by the Lacroix family. It designs and manufactures school, writing and office supplies — from compasses and scissors to erasers, pencil sharpeners, pens and craft kits — under its Maped, Maped Office, Maped Creativ, Joustra, Helit and Helix brands. All product design is done in-house at the French headquarters, while roughly 60% of production runs through three integrated sites in France, China and Mexico, with the remainder contracted closer to markets. The group employs around 1,800 people and sells in more than 120 countries through 17 subsidiaries.

516 products

STAEDTLER is a German stationery and art-supplies maker founded in Nuremberg in 1835, one of the world's oldest producers of pencils and writing instruments. Owned by the non-profit Staedtler Foundation, the company is best known for its Mars, Noris, Lumocolor and FIMO brands, spanning pencils, markers, pens, modelling clay and technical drawing tools. It operates six manufacturing plants, four of them in Germany and one in Peru, with roughly two-thirds of its products made in Germany.