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History
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The Penol brand was established in 1928, it was in the period after the big depression in USA. The founder, Christian Olsen, therefore had problems with importing sufficient numbers of Parker pens, which, at the time, he was distributing throughout Scandinavia. The solution to the problem was to introduce his own brand, Penol. There are sevral background stories behind the brand name Penol, but two versions stand out. One is that Christian Olsen was nicknamed "pen Olsen" by his friends, and the brand Penol wasn't to far away from that. The other version states that the cable address was Parker Pen Olsen abbreviated to Parker Penol, thus Penol.
During the second world war, and in the following years, Parker pens where manufactured under license at the factory placed at Emdrupvej in Copenhagen. During these years certain models of the Parker pens where enhanced, and it didn't take long before a full line of Penol pens where manufactured at the same factory. Among the well known Penol pens are products such as the Penol President, Penol Ambassador, Penol Senior, and the less expensive products Penol Q-pen and Penol School pen.
In the mid 60's the factory at Emdrupvej was closed down, and the Penol brand was focused on the Penol 700 and Penol 300 marking pen series. These products are still among the best selling Penol products today. At the end of the 60's a kid's colouring product line was created, best known are the Penol 300 fibertip pens. These products, together with the Penol marking pens, are the core of the Penol brand today.
The entire production of Penol products is now outsourced to leading manufacturers of writing instruments. The manufacturers are placed all over the world, primarily in South East Asia, and Europe.
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Penol A/S Carolinevej 2E, DK-2900 Hellerup, Danmark
Tlf.: 3915 7900 Email:
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