Didirikan pada tahun 1761 di Stein dekat [[Nuremberg]] oleh pembuat kabinet [[Kaspar Faber]] (1730–1784), perusahaan ini tetap bertahan dalam keluarga Faber selama delapan generasi.<ref name="hist">Faber-Castell International. [http://www.fabercastell.com/company/history The History of the Faber-Castell Company]</ref> ItPerusahaan openedmembuka branchescabang indi New York (1849), London (1851), Paris (1855), anddan expandedberekspansi toke ViennaWina (1872) anddan St. Petersburg (1874).<ref name=hist /> ItPerusahaan openedmembuka asebuah factorypabrik indi [[Geroldsgrün]] wheredi slidemana rulesmistar werehitung produceddiproduksi. ItPerusahaan expandedberekspansi internationallysecara andinternasional launcheddan newmeluncurkan productsproduk-produk baru di bawah kepemimpinan cucu underbuyut Kaspar Faber'sambitiousyang great-grandsonambisius, [[Johann Lothar Freiherr von Faber|Lothar]] (1817–961817–1896).<ref name=hist /> InPada tahun 1900, after the marriage of Lothar's granddaughter with a [[cadet (genealogy)|cadet]] of the [[Counts of Castell]], the A.W. Castell enterprise took the name of ''Faber-Castell'' and a new [[logo]], combining the Faber motto, ''Since 1761'', with the "[[jousting]] knights" of the Castells' [[coat-of-arms]].<ref name=logo>Faber-Castell International. [http://www.faber-castell.de/en-DE/company/fc-logo The Company Logo] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20140812160555/http://www.faber-castell.de/en-DE/company/fc-logo |date=2014-08-12 }}</ref>
Today, the company operates 14 factories and 20 sales units, with six in Europe, four in Asia, three in North America, five in South America, and one each in Australia and New Zealand. The Faber-Castell Group employs a staff of approximately 7,000 and does business in more than 100 countries.<ref name="facts" />
