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STAEDTLER Group
Moosäckerstrasse 3
90427 Nuremberg, Germany
Tel. +49-911-9365-0
Fax +49-911-9365-405

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.staedtler.de

STAEDTLER makes pens, pencils, markers, and other writing instruments for arts and crafts, technical drawing, and everyday use. The company also makes inkjet cartridges for printers. Europe's largest manfacturer of pencils, STAEDTLER sells its products through more than 20 global subsidiaries and has eight production plants worldwide. Customers include students STAEDTLER traces its roots back to 1662 when Friedrich Staedtler is first mentioned as a pencil-making craftsman; in 1835, J.S. Staedtler was granted a manufacturing license and began making blacklead, red chalk, and pastel pencils.

Officers:
Public Relations, STAEDTLER USA: Millie Szerman
Public Relations: Gerlinde Karg
VP Sales and Marketing: Peter Katz

Competitors:
Dixon Ticonderoga
Faber-Castell
Newell Rubbermaid

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Staedtler Mars GmbH & Co. KG
Type Private
Founded GermanyNuremberg, Germany, (October 3, 1835)
Headquarters Moosäckerstrasse 3, 90427 Nuremberg, Germany
Area served Worldwide
Key people Founder: J.S. Staedtler
Managing Director: Axel Marx
Industry Stationery
Products Office Supplies:
Lumocolor, Textsurfer, triplus, Writing instruments, Graphite and accessories, karat aquarell, ergosoft, Noris Club, Technical drawing instruments
Employees 3000
Website International Web site: http://www.staedtler.com

Staedtler Mars GmbH & Co. KG is a German fine writing instruments company and one of the world's leading manufacturers and suppliers of writing and engineering drawing instruments. The company was founded by J.S. Staedtler in 1835. The company produces many writing instruments, including drafting pencils, leadholders, professional pens, and standard wooden pencils.[1] It also produces plastic erasers, rulers, masterbows, and other drawing/writing accessories. Staedtler has over 20 global subsidiaries and seven manufacturing facilities.[2] Its Noris line of pencils are extremely common in British schools.

Timeline

A timeline of the history of Staedtler:[3]

  • 1662 Friedrich Staedtler is recorded to be a pencil maker in Nuremberg
  • 1834 J. S. Staedtler invents coloured oil pastel pencils which "can be sharpened to a point just like a pencil"
  • 1835 Manufacturing license granted by municipal council and J.S. Staedtler transforms the centuries old workshop into an industrial plant
  • 1880 Staedtler is taken over by Ludwig Kreutzer
  • 1884 Export office in London
  • 1887 Export office in Paris
  • 1895 Minerva brand registered at the imperial patent office in Berlin
  • 1898 Company relocated to the Johannis District
  • 1900 Mars brand registered at the imperial patent office in Berlin
  • 1901 Noris brand registered at the imperial patent office in Berlin. The Mars indelible pencil 754 in blue lacquer finish comes onto the market
  • 1911 Introduction of a life insurance scheme for the workforce
  • 1912 Take-over of the company W. Staedtler Co., founded in 1865 by one of J.S. Staedtlers sons
  • 1916 Ludwig Kreutzer sets up a support fund for employees in need
  • 1922 Foundation of the New York / USA subsidiary
  • 1926 Foundation of the Osaka / Japan subsidiary. The Moon brand has already been successfully introduced in the Far East
  • 1929 Foundation of the London / U.K. subsidiary
  • 1937 Name changed to Mars Pencil and Fountain Pen Factory. Product range expanded to include mechanical writing instruments
  • 1945 20% of factory buildings are destroyed during the air raids of World War II
  • 1949 Ballpoint pen production starts
  • 1950 Leadholders (mechanical pencils) are made out of wood
  • 1954 Registration of the Lumocolor brand
  • 1955 Plastic mechanical pencils are manufactured for technical drawing market
Standard HB Pencil
  • 1962 Production of technical pens
  • 1964 Production of felt, fibre-tip and OHP pens
  • 1969 Production of mechanical pencils
  • 1978 Take-over of the company Eberhard Faber
  • 1988 Relocation to a new 47,000 sqm site in Moosaeckerstrasse in the North of Nuremberg
  • 1997 Establishment of the Staedtler foundation
  • 1998 Manufacture and sale of ink jet inks for large format printers
  • 2009 Biomaterial of the Year Innovation Award 2009 and a Design Plus Award for the Staedtler WOPEX[4][5] designed by TEAMS Design with Staedtler.

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