Staedtler

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Staedtler Mars GmbH & Co. KG

Type	Private
Founded	Nuremberg, Germany, (3rd October 1835)
Headquarters	Moosäckerstrasse 3, 90427 Nuremberg, Germany
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Managing Director: Axel Marx Business Development Manager: Jens Moehrle
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, compasses, 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.

[edit] Timeline

Standard HB Pencil

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 WWII
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
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