F.I.L.A. – Fabbrica Italiana Lapis ed Affini S.p.A.,

doing business as A trade name, trading name, or business name is a pseudonym used by companies that do not operate under their registered company name. The term for this type of alternative name is fictitious business name. Registering the fictitious name with ...

F.I.L.A. Group, is an Italian multinational supplier of art materials and related products, with

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and

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s such as

Daler-Rowney Daler-Rowney Ltd is an English art materials manufacturer based in Bracknell. The company, a subsidiary of conglomerate F.I.L.A. Group, manufactures and commercialises a wide range of artist products such as Acrylic, oil, watercolor, brushes, ...

Canson Canson is a French manufacturer of fine art paper and related products. The company, established in 1557 by the Montgolfier family, produces papers for different uses in fine art, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, photo papers, among others. Hi ...

, and Maimeri.Carlo Festa (16 January 2015)
Pencil-maker Fila plans IPO
''Italy Europe 24''. Retrieved 14 December 2016. F.I.L.A. was founded in 1920 in

Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence ...

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

, and since 1959 the head office is in

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

.F.I.L.A. Group
F.I.L.A. Retrieved 5 November 2016. The growth has included several company acquisitions. In 1964 Alberto Candela succeeds his father Renato. Under his direction, new products such as Giotto Fibra and the Tiziano line were born. In 1973 the "writing pen" was launched on the market under the name Tratto-Pen. This new model receives the 1979

Compasso d'Oro The Compasso d'Oro (; ) is an industrial design award originated in Italy in 1954. Initially sponsored by the La Rinascente, a Milanese department store, the award has been organised and managed by the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale (ADI ...

award and is later exhibited at the MoMA in New York. In 1992 Massimo Candela, Alberto's son, took over from his father and became CEO. Since 1994 F.I.L.A. a policy of acquisitions begins, including Adica Pongo, a historic company in the modeling pastes sector; Compania de Lapices y Afines Ltda, Papeleria Mediterranea SL., Giotto be-bè, the American Dixon Ticonderoga, one of the historic pencil companies also present in Canada, China and Mexico; the French Canson (founded in 1557 by the Montgolfier family), Lyra, Lapicera Mexicana; Lycin and a minority share of the Indian Writefine Products Private Limited (2011). The company was listed on the

Milan stock exchange Borsa Italiana () or Borsa di Milano (), based in Milan at Mezzanotte Palace, is the Italian stock exchange. It manages and organises domestic market, regulating procedures for admission and listing of companies and intermediaries and supervi ...

in November 2015. According to figures presented by F.I.L.A. Group, it was present in around 50 countries, with a total of 6,500 employees in 2016.

List of Fabbrica Italiana Lapis ed Affini acquisitions

* 2005 –

Dixon Ticonderoga The Dixon Ticonderoga Company () is an American manufacturer of office and art supplies based in Heathrow, Florida. A subsidiary of Italian-based F.I.L.A. SpA, the company offers a number of brands, with one of the most well-known being ''Ticonde ...

*2008 – Lyra *2016 February – Daler Rowney *2016 September – St Cuthberts Mill *2016 October –

* 2018 May – Pacon *2019 October –

Arches paper Arches paper is a brand of air-dried paper that is used by printers and watercolorists. It has a warm white colour and is produced in hot-pressed, cold-pressed, and rough varieties. Arches paper is made in the village of Arches in the Vosges, France ...

Brands

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** Dixon ** Ticonderoga ** Lyra *

DOMS The Doma (), also known as ''Dom'', ''Domra'', ''Domba'', ''Domaka'', ''Dombara'' and ''Dombari'', are castes, or groups, scattered across India. The Doma/Dom were a caste of drummers. According to Tantra scriptures, the Dom were engaged in the ...

* Giotto * Giotto be-bè * Lukas * Maimeri * Mapita * Mercurio * Metrico * Pax * *Pacon * Prang * Tratto * Uti Guti * Vinci * Vividel

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fila Visual arts materials Manufacturing companies established in 1920 Companies based in Milan Italian companies established in 1920 Art materials brands Italian brands Papermakers