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Zebra (pen manufacturer)
Zebra Co., Ltd. is a Japanese manufacturer of writing instruments. Zebra Pen Corporation (the American branch) was founded in New York in 1982 as an independent corporation wholly owned by Zebra Co. Ltd. The company sells a wide range of pens, pencils, and highlighters through retail stores, wholesalers and mail order. The Zebra Pen Corporation offers a line of writing instruments that include ball point pens, gel pens, roller ball pens, fountain pens, mechanical pencils and highlighters.
==Origin of name==
The Zebra trademark was adopted in 1914. Legend has it that Mr. Ishikawa, founder of Zebra Co. Ltd., wanted a company name that would be memorable and also appropriate for their export business to other countries. He took an English/Japanese dictionary and, opening it Japanese style from the back, started with the "Z" words. He stopped at ''zebra''.
Upon further research, Ishikawa found that zebras are gentle animals with a strong family herding instinct. This was an important attribute, since he wanted to build a business in which employees and customers were all part of a family-like culture. The fact that the zebra looks like it is decorated with large calligraphic pen strokes may have also appealed to the visual image he was seeking.〔(About Zebra "How We Earned Our Stripes" )〕
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