The heirs of the writing instrument manufacturer Lamy don’t want to say anything about it. They are still in the “discovery phase” and will be contacted if anything changes, says their spokeswoman. The discovery phase has been over since this week: The siblings Vera and Markus Lamy sold the company founded by their grandfather to the Mitsubishi Pencil Company. The small, fine traditional company from Heidelberg is now Japanese.
Bernd Freytag
Business correspondent for Rhine-Neckar-Saar based in Mainz.
Tim Canning
Correspondent for economics and politics in Japan based in Tokyo.
This is the end of a success story from Germany, written primarily by Manfred Lamy, who joined the company founded by his father in the 1930s in 1962. Together with the former Braun designer Gerd A. Müller, he developed the design language that is still characteristic today: no frills, “no impressive consumption,” as he told the FAZ in 2010.
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2024-03-02 16:35:43
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