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^ a b Geschäftsbericht 2015 Pelikan Holding AG, Feusisberg.^ a b c d 2018 Annual Report of Pelikan Holding AG.
^ a b c d Pelikan history and timeline on Pelikan company website,.^ Eintrag im Handelsregister des Kantons Schwyz Archived at the Wayback Machine.^ Pelikan Holding AG on Pelikan global website,.Products Ĭurrent products manufactured by Pelikan are: The company had 1,335 employees, 1,100 of which were in Germany. 8,000 distribution centres in Germany directly, with another 3,000 customers throughout Europe. By the time of the acquisition, Herlitz's production facilities were located in the town of Falkensee, Brandenburg, with other plants in Poland, Romania and Great Britain. In November 2009 Pelikan purchased rival stationery company Herlitz, which had been previously bought by "Stationery Products S.à.r.l.", a Luxembourg-based company. Two years later, Geha-Werke company merged with Pelikan, although operating as an independent division. Pelikan moved to a new office building in Hanover in 2003. In 1996, Goodace SDN BHD, a Malaysian company, took over the majority of Pelikan holding shares. The Hanover-based company was separated into various sub-companies and then sold. Six years later, Pelikan was taken over by a Swiss company. In 1978, Pelikan became a stock corporation, changing its legal form from a GmbH to an AG, with shares being divided within the Beindorff family and 46 other owners. From 1942 on, the company operated Gestapo labor education camps at their Hannover works, where forced labourers were employed. During the war, both pen and ink production suffered, and the company produced paints, coatings, and other chemicals with military use. The writing instruments products were moved to Peine as the Hanover facilities could no longer be expanded.įritz Beindorff, the owner of Pelikan at the time, was one of the sixteen initial signatories of the 1932 Industrielleneingabe, urging President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler as chancellor. Pelikan expanded its products to watercolor sets in 1931. In 1929, Pelikan produced its first fountain pen. By 1913, the manufacturing were expanded, and 1057 workers were employed by Pelikan. In 1896, Pelikan started to produce India ink, achieving great sales success. When Fritz Beindorff took over the company, Pelikan added office products for copying, stamping, sticking and erasing. īy 1881 the company had expanded its plant, employing 39 additional people. The company expanded his range of distribution to Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary and Croatia, then establishing a new factory in Vienna. Wagner algo designed the company first logo (taking the figure of a pelican from his own familiar coat of arms) in 1878, becoming also one of the first German trademarks ever. In 1863, Guenther Wagner obtained the position of chemist and plant manager.
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