Company Group

Facts and 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 245 years ago (in 1761) as a pencil factory in Stein near Nuremberg. It is thus one of the world’s oldest industrial companies; it is now headed by Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell in the 8th generation of his family.

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. 2,000 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 23 sales organizations. The total includes roughly 2,700 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).

In 1978 the company transferred its profound know-how into the production of cosmetic pencils and since then became an important partner to the cosmetics industry.