The Parker Pen Company is an American manufacturer of luxury writing pens, founded in 1888 by George Safford Parker in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States...
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The Parker 51 is a fountain pen first introduced in 1941. Parker marketed it as "The World’s Most Wanted Pen", a slogan alluding to restrictions on production...
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The Parker Jointless "Lucky Curve" is a range of fountain pens released by the Parker Pen Company in late 1897. The pen used the Lucky Curve ink supply...
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The Parker Duofold is a range of fountain pens produced by the Parker Pen Company. The first model was produced in 1921 and was a large pen – 5.5 inches...
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Chelpark (category Fountain pen and ink manufacturers)
a portmanteau of "Chellaram" and "Parker". Originally a subsidiary of the Parker Pen Company in India, the company was renamed 'Chelpark', after the Bangalore-based...
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The Parker Vacumatic fountain pen was launched in 1932, and would come to out-sell the Parker Duofold, the then top seller. The pen was originally marketed...
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Jotter (redirect from Parker Jotter)
The Parker Jotter is the Parker Pen Company's second and best-selling retracting refillable ballpoint pen. The first was the Hopalong Cassidy ballpoint...
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fountain pens. Dismayed by the unreliability of the pens, he experimented with ways to prevent ink leaks. In 1888 he founded the Parker Pen Company and the...
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technologies Parker Manufacturing Company, tool and kitchen cabinet manufacturer, and industrial landlord Parker Pen Company, American pen maker Parker, Arizona...
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ManpowerGroup (redirect from Manpower (company))
co-founder Elmer Winter, the Parker Pen Company announced its acquisition of Manpower for $28.2 million. A new subsidiary of Parker would own 80% of the common...
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Quink (category Fountain pen and ink manufacturers)
(a portmanteau from 'quick' and 'ink') is a fountain pen ink developed by the Parker Pen Company. It was introduced in 1931 and has remained in production...
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The Parker 180 is a fountain pen developed in the 1970s by the Parker Pen Company. Introduced to market in 1977 as an attempt to modernize the then-floundering...
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The Waterman Pen Company is a major manufacturing company of luxury fountain pens and inks, based in Paris, France. The firm was established in 1884 in...
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Janesville, Wisconsin. The school, named for George S. Parker, founder of the Parker Pen Company, is a part of the School District of Janesville and was...
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oil-cloth. John's grandson Duncan, a keen motorcyclist, would also take the company in that direction during his tenure as Barbour became the originator of...
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27 July 2016. "Parker 61". ParkerPens.net. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021. "Parker 100". ParkerPens.net. Archived from...
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some of its Hero pens, such as the Hero 616 or Hero 100, resemble that of the Parker 51, a popular American-made pen. Hero fountain pens were very popular...
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Sonnet (KDE), a computer program Parker Sonnet, range of fountain, rollerball, and ballpoint pens made by Parker Pen Company Sonnet Insurance, a Canadian...
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largest pen manufacturer in Japan, with competition globally from other pen companies like Japanese Pentel Co., Mitsubishi Pencil Co. (Uni-ball), French Bic...
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influence on the supply of the competing company. For this reason Sanderson, together with Usher and Bell, founded a company to produce grain whisky, which still...
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Weetabix Limited (redirect from Weetabix Food Company)
Weetabix Limited, trading as Weetabix Food Company, is a food processing company that is responsible for the production of breakfast cereal brands, including...
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office products under its own brand, also selling Schneider, Parker, and Waterman pens (the last two brands, after an agreement with Newell Brands) in...
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Reynolds Pens is an Indian brand and a former American manufacturing company of writing instruments, mainly pens. Products commercialized under the Reynolds...
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Janesville. The Parker Pen Company was handed down to George's son, Ken, who developed the revolutionary "Parker 51" in the 1940s. A Parker pen was used by...
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Fountain pen ink is a water-based ink intended for use with fountain pens. Fountain pen ink is almost exclusively dye-based because fountain pens operate...
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Schweppes (redirect from Schweppes Company)
Schweppes brand name, including various types of lemonade and ginger ales. The company has held the British royal warrant since 1836 and was the official sponsor...
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developed by the Parker Pen Company Rastrum – a five-pointed instrument used to draw parallel lines, sometimes assembled out of ink pens Retipping – replacing...
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Eversharp (redirect from Eversharp Pencil Company)
1916 and it was named "Wahl-Eversharp". The company continued until 1957 when it was acquired by Parker Pen, which continued to use the Eversharp brand...
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