Luxor International Private Ltd. is an Indian

manufacturing company Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a range ...

of stationery products based in Noida, India. Luxor manufactures and markets writing instruments and office products under its own brand, also selling Schneider,

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, and Waterman pens (the last two brands, after an agreement with

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) in India. In the past, Luxor also marketed Paper Mate and Pilot products. Luxor is part of the "Luxor Group".Pooja Jain Is Rewriting Luxor's Future
by Shabana Hussain on Forbes India, 2 Sep 2014 With presence in over 95 countries, Luxor is India's largest exporter of writing instruments.

History

Davinder Kumar Jain 2023 stamp of India 2

Luxor was founded in 1963 in India by Davinder Kumar Jain (also known as "D.K. Jain"), with an initial investment of Rs 5,000 and five employees. The company was the first to introduce the fiber tip technology in the country in 1975, followed by the launch of markers and highlighters one year later. In 1980, the company created a division for international business, also becoming distributor of the

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ese brand Pilot. The company opened a new manufacturing unit in Haridwar in 2008. In 1996, Luxor added

pens to its line of writing instruments it sells in India. Luxor also introduced

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brand Waterman in 2003. When founder and

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, D.K. Jain, succumbed to a heart attack in 2014, his daughter Pooja succeeded him as CEO. By then, the Luxor Group had over ₹500

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in revenues. In 2023, Pilot ended its forty-year-old partnership with Luxor. Luxor has a partnership with Schneider of Germany to sell writing instruments in India.

References

External links

Official website
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