Caran d'Ache (company)
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Caran d'Ache is a Swiss manufacturer of luxury writing instruments.
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History
It was founded in Geneva in 1924 when Arnold Schweitzer purchased the Ecridor Pencil Factory. Schweitzer named his new company after Caran d'Ache, the nickname of a French satiric political cartoonist from Russia (карандаш, karandash meaning pencil in Russian).
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