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Company History
- In 1761, Kaspar Faber, (Stein- Germany) manufactured the first simple hand-made pencils.
- In 19th Century, hexagonal pencils and standards of size and grades of hardness were invented by his Great Grandson Lothar Faber.
- FB was the first ever Brand Name of writing products with offices opened in New York, London, Paris, Vienna and St Petersburg.
Company History
- In 1978, after 50 Years of heading the company, Count Roland handed the running to his son, Anton Wolfgang – Count von Faber – Castell.
- Faber Castell now employs over 6000 people, has 15 Production sites, and 20 Sales organizations, together with representation in over 120 Countries around the World.
Faber-Castell: Products
- Color and Creativity
- Color Pencils, Connector Color Pens, Color Markers, Crayons, Pastels, Metallic, Glitter Glue
- Fine Art & Hobby
- Art & Graphic, Creative Studio
- General Writing & Marking
- Pens, Pencils, Erasers, Sharpeners, Mechanical Pencils & Leads, Accessories
- Technical Drawing
- Drawing boards, stencils, compasses, clutch pencils, rulers and squares
- Premium Writing & Gifts
- Premium and customize gifts
Faber-Castell & The Environment
- In Brazil, Faber-Castell has a sustainable ecological cycle program (Over a million of trees Pinus caribaea are planted, in 100sq kilometers in the Amazon rainforest.
- The Faber-Castell forests and factories have been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), world's forestry experts, including organizations such as Greenpeace and WWF.
Marketing Strategy
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Faber Castell History
- http://www.faber-castell.com.au/16959/History-Information/default_news.aspx
- http://www.faber-castell.com.au/17127/History-Information/History-of-Faber-Castell/default_news.aspx
- http://www.faber-castell.com.au/19358/History-Information/FC-World-Wide/default_news.aspx
- http://www.faber-castell.com.au/19364/History-Information/History-of-the-Pencil/default_news.aspx
- http://www.faber-castell.com.au/17128/History-Information/Social-Respect/default_news.aspx
- http://www.faber-castell.com.au/18972/History-Information/Faber-Castell-and-Environment/default_news.aspx
- http://www.faber-castell.com.au/19512/History-Information/How-products-are-made/default_news.aspx
- http://www.faber-castell.com.au/18383/History-Information/FC-Australia/Company-Overview/default_news.aspx Above are from the Australian site
- http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/may/08quiz.htm Colour pencil, black pencil Indian pencil, Chinese pencil...just name it. We all may have grown out of our fancy for pencils but very few have actually stopped using them. But how much do you know about this important writing tool? Take the rediff business quiz to find out.
- http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22Kaspar+Faber%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta= "Kaspar Faber"
- http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22Lothar+von+Faber%22&btnG=Search&hl=en&safe=off&sa=2 "Lothar von Faber"
- http://askville.amazon.com/Kaspar-Faber-connection/AnswerDetails.do?requestId=263794&responseId=263837 "Kaspar Faber is the connection between the two"
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Faber
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_von_Faber
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counts_of_Castell
- http://pkm.faber-castell.com/14950/The-company/The-FABER-CASTELL-history/index_ebene2.aspx THE HISTORY OF THE FABER-CASTELL COMPANY
- https://www.akardesign.com/creators/moreinfo.asp?iCreatorID=446&iCategoryID=5&iCreatorType=2 The 1st Generation-establishment of the business by Kaspar Faber (1730-1784)
- http://www.joonpens.com/Graf%20von%20Faber_history The idea of enclosing a thin graphite lead in a wooden casing is several hundred years old; it was not new when my ancestor [Kaspar Faber] founded a pencil factory in 1761. But my great-great-grandfather Baron Lothar von Faber, who took over the family firm in Lothar Freiherr von Faber1839, was the first to turn the pencil into a genuine quality product — and the world’s first brand-name writing implement. He laid down standards for the length, diameter, and hardness of pencils; standards which apply to this day. He also created a series of fascinating products which continue to set an example of simplicity and design.
- http://www.faber-castell.sg/31471/The-Company/History-of-the-Company/The-8-Generations/default_ebene2.aspx History of Faber-Castell: The Eight Generations
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard_Faber
- Faber Castell Taiwan
- http://www.faber-castell.com.br/18240/Home/default_flashonly.aspx Faber Castell Brazil
- http://www.faber-castell.us/14798/About-Us/index_ebene3.aspx Faber Castell US
- http://www.graf-von-faber-castell.com/23844/The-Series/Classic/GvFC_index.aspx Graf (pens?)
- http://www.faber-castell.de/24486/News/index_news.aspx Faber-Castell News
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faber-Castell
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staedtler
Following are brandname pencil links:
- http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=dixon+staedtler+faber&btnG=Search&meta= dixon staedtler faber
- http://www.brandnamepencils.com/brands/eagle/index.shtml (best) Brandname Pencils
- http://www.pencilpages.com/gallery/index.htm Pencil gallery
- http://www.pencilpages.com/ The World's Most Comprehensive On-line Resource for Pencil-Related Information....
- http://www.staedtler.ca/graphite_pencils_accessories_ca.Staedtler STAEDTLER
- http://www.staedtler.com/home_gb.Staedtler?ActiveID=2131 Welcome to the STAEDTLER international website!
- http://www.dixonusa.com/ Dixon USA
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon_Ticonderoga
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pencils (best)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faber-Castell
- http://www.tradeseek.com/mycgfair/?show_com_id=73981&pro_id=34828&page_id=4&kind=detail Great Wall Pencil
- http://www.pencils.com/pencil-information/story-pencils-technology-and-tradition The Story of Pencils: Technology and Tradition
- http://www.chinafirstpencil.com/ China First Pencil Company Chunghwa
- http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22chung+hwa%22+pencil&btnG=Search&meta= "chung hwa" pencil
- http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E8%8F%AF%E7%89%8C%E9%89%9B%E7%AD%86 Chungwa Pencil
Mock Assignment on Russia
- Describe:
- Demographics
- Income distribution
- Language
- Should be able to speak the Russian language
- Something on Econ of country
- Something about culture and Religion
- Any service you want to market in the country
- How would you do it? A completely new product.
- Besides culture, what elso do you need to analyse locally?
- Political Institutions.
- PEST.
- Marketing: what is the attitude of people with respect to your product
- In russia: all levels of govt, the mafia, and who are rich in Russia?
- Read Karl Popper: Open society. It says how culture can restrain you
- RIM will become very cost effective. If you want to market telemobility, you market all around the world now. Because, as early as 2000, the internet econ already reached 800 billion
- What income level would be considered "rich"? How do you greet each other there?
- Venezuelans probably more politically conscious than Colombians.
- If you wanna sell toothpaste, do you have to go to Queens Park for a permit?
- Establishing linkage of trust and building on it is especially important in India and China.
- Social group: activities, income,
- Also, ask other groups hard hard questions on their countries.
- our company is the Toronto based Northern Links import export company
- currently, the Russian cities that have a large millionaire, billionaire population are super rich
So, Northern Links company is faced with several choices, because we are basically partners with many Canadian industries. in Toronto, there is a company that designs and markets top-quality sports accesories and equipments, like thermo skidos, skiis
- Moscow has overtaken London as the most expensive city.[1][2] What is the course of fortune it has traveled from the Yeltsin "Shock theorapy" years to the way it is now?
- What did Russian oligarchs and Russian billionaires[3][4] get rich on? Just oil and gas? Is it legitimate business they are doing? Is it legitimate property they are owning?
- What is the average Russian citizen's Per capita income?
- What is life like in the rural villages 200 miles outside of Moscow?[5]
- What is the immigrant culture landscape we encounter there? Why are there Tajiks, Uzbeks, Armenians vending on the streets and working labor jobs in this much troubled and disorderly society?
- What caused Russia's gender imbalance and rapid population decrease? The Chechen War? Alcoholism in Russia?[6]
- What is Russian oligarchs' relation with different political factions? Who are linked to Mayor Luzhkov of Moscow? What is Luzhkov's relation with the Putin camp? What is Putin camp's relation with Yeltsin Era oligarchs?[7][8]
- What do we mean by Russian Mafia? What is the government's involvement in the market? What is organized crime's involvement in the market?
- How are language and etiquette practiced in everyday Russia? Is it a polite society? Is it a society full of niceties and formalities?[9]
- Are there autonomous republics where a language totally foreign to Russian is widely spoken and on every shop sign? Will you be doing business in these places? Where are these ethnic regions in Russia?
- How is Russian patriotism, Russian nationalism expressed in consumer culture and pop culture? [10][11] [12][13][14][15]
- What does Russian patriotism mean for a Canadian product like ours?
- Is Russia a religious society? What kind of religions are practiced and how? [16] [17] [18] [19]
- How is Ukraine compared to Russia in similar areas? [20]
- Indonesia: is Bahasa Indonesia adequate if you are going to advertise your product on TV channels across the main Island of Java? What different social groups are their in terms of class, culture, ethnicity and religion?
Please just put your paragraphs here, anyone can contribute
Russia Info Links
- http://www.doingbusiness.org/ExploreEconomies/?economyid=159 Doing Business in Russia
- http://globaledge.msu.edu/countryInsights/country.asp?countryID=168 GlobalEdge Country Insights Russia
- http://extsearch.worldbank.org/servlet/SiteSearchServlet?qUrl=&qSubc=wbg&ed=&txtnullalert=You+must+enter+something+to+search+for!&q=Russia&submit.x=7&submit.y=11&submit=Go Worldbank Search Russia
- http://espanol.doingbusiness.org/ExploreEconomies/?economyid=159 Doing Business in Russia en Espanyol
- http://www.state.gov/p/eur/index.htm State Department Eurasian Bureau
- http://www.countryrisk.com/guide/archives/cat_country_risk_ratings.html Countryrisk Ratings
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1102275.stm BBC Russia profile
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1113655.stm BBC Russia timeline
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1107869.stm BBC Ukraine timeline
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1102303.stm BBC Russia profile
- http://www.state.gov/p/eur/ci/rs/ U.S.-Russia Relations
- http://www.state.gov/p/eur/ci/up/index.htm Ukraine Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs > Countries and Other Areas