Faber-Castell

German manufacturing company of stationery and art products
Organization business Q455476
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Faber-Castell

Summary

Faber-Castell is a business[1]. Faber-Castell ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,465 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Faber-Castell is in the country of Germany[3].
  • Faber-Castell is in the country of DE[4].
  • Faber-Castell's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • Faber-Castell's instance of is recorded as company[6].
  • Faber-Castell's founder is recorded as Kaspar Faber[7].
  • Faber-Castell is owned by Lothar von Faber[8].
  • Kaspar Faber is named after Faber-Castell[9].
  • Faber-Castell followed Bleistift-Fabrik vorm. Johannes Faber[10].
  • Faber-Castell's headquarters location is recorded as Stein[11].
  • Faber-Castell's Commons category is recorded as Faber-Castell[12].
  • Faber-Castell's industry is recorded as stationery[13].
  • Faber-Castell's industry is recorded as industrial sector[14].
  • 1761 marks the founding of Faber-Castell[15].
  • 2000-12-20 marks the founding of Faber-Castell[16].
  • Faber-Castell's official website is recorded as https://www.faber-castell.com/[17].
  • Faber-Castell's official website is recorded as https://www.faber-castell.de/[18].
  • Faber-Castell's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Faber-Castell[19].
  • Faber-Castell's product or material produced is recorded as art material[20].
  • Faber-Castell's product or material produced is recorded as pencil[21].
  • Faber-Castell's product or material produced is recorded as slide rule[22].
  • Faber-Castell's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'A.W. Faber-Castell Unternehmensverwaltung GmbH'}[23].
  • Faber-Castell's legal form is recorded as Aktiengesellschaft[24].
  • Faber-Castell's legal form is recorded as 6QQB[25].
  • Faber-Castell's owner of is recorded as Graf von Faber-Castell[26].
  • Faber-Castell's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Scheepvaartmuseum Wikidataproject[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 39120001YPXVWHJ0YX52[28]

  • Registered legal name: Faber-Castell Aktiengesellschaft[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: DE[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): 6QQB[32]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[33]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[34]

  • Entity created: 2000-12-20[35]

  • LEI first registered: 2014-02-14[36]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-02-06[37]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-02-14[38]

  • Managing LOU: 39120001KULK7200U106[39]

  • Registration authority: RA000247[40]

  • Authority entity ID: HRB 8213[41]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[42]

Body

Founding

Faber-Castell's founder is recorded as Kaspar Faber[7]. Recorded inception include 1761[15] and 2000-12-20[16].

Identity

Faber-Castell's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'A.W. Faber-Castell Unternehmensverwaltung GmbH'}[23]. Faber-Castell followed Bleistift-Fabrik vorm. Johannes Faber[10].

Operations

Faber-Castell's headquarters location is recorded as Stein[11].

Industry

Industries include stationery[13] and industrial sector[14].

Ownership

Faber-Castell is owned by Lothar von Faber[8]. Products include art material[20], pencil[21], and slide rule[22].

Why It Matters

Faber-Castell ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,465 views/month).[2] Faber-Castell has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] Faber-Castell is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. daten.digitale-sammlungen.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [29] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [30] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [31] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [32] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [33] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [34] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [35] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [36] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [37] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [38] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [39] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [40] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [41] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [42] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [43] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [44] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16d ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website https://www.faber-castell.com/, https://www.faber-castell.de/
    Named after Kaspar Faber
    Instance of business, company
    Website
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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