From the Financial Times - January 1, 2008

Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell admits that when he took over running his family-controlled company he was a little nervous.

“It seemed risky,” he says. “We were making products that had barely changed for more than 50 years and it was difficult to see where the business was heading.”

Nearly 30 years later, Count von Faber-Castell, chief executive of Faber-Castell, the world’s biggest pencil maker, seems more composed. read on...