- Business
- Kokuyo Camlin Limited Kokuyo Camlin Limited manufactures and markets a broad range of stationery, art materials, and writing instruments under the Camlin and Camel brands; its core products encompass writing implements such as wooden pencils, mechanical pencils, ballpoint pens, fountain pens, marker pens, highlighters, brush pens, and correction pens; art materials including artist gouache, acrylic, HD acrylics, water, oil, poster, tempera, and fluid acrylic colours, drawing inks, crayons, oil pastels, charcoals, modelling clay, coloured pencils, brushes, canvas boards, and painting kits; office and scholastic supplies like notebooks, erasers, sharpeners, glue sticks, adhesives, geometry boxes, scales, stamp pads, carbon papers, and exam pads; as well as inks encompassing fountain pen, rubber stamp, and duplicating varieties. The company, founded in 1931 as Dandekar & Co. and incorporated in 1946, maintains its headquarters in Mumbai, India, with manufacturing facilities including the Patalganga factory; it operates primarily in India, exporting to SAARC countries, the Middle East, Far East, Mauritius, Ghana, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan, and functions as a subsidiary of Japan's Kokuyo Co., Ltd., which holds approximately 51% ownership following its 2011 acquisition and the subsequent 2012 name change from Camlin Limited. Recent developments include leveraging parent company synergies for expanded market penetration, with Kokuyo Co., Ltd. acquiring HNI Office India Ltd. in 2025 to bolster its Indian furniture presence under the rebranded Kokuyo Workplace India Ltd., targeting 3X growth by 2030 through design-led workspace solutions that complement Kokuyo Camlin's stationery portfolio.