ADEL WITH ITS PROVEN REPUTATION IN QUALITY, HAS BEEN A MAJOR PLAYER IN ITS FIELD

ADEL KALEMCILIK TICARET VE SANAYI A.S., founded in 1969, is a partnership between Anadolu
Group-one of the largest industrial conglomerates of Turkey and Faber-Castell AG from Germany - a
worldwide renowned writing instruments company. Around 27% of ADEL shares are traded publicly
at Istanbul Stock Exchange.
ADEL is the pioneer and leader of the Turkish writing instruments industry, producing wood-cased
blacklead, colour and copying pencils, ballpoint pens, fibre pens, oil pastels, wax crayons, finger paints,
modeling clay, gouache, watercolours, erasers and mechanical pencils, liquid ink pens and fine leads.

ADEL markets its products as well as some imported products in Turkey through a strong and efficient
distribution network and is the overall market leader in its product range. ADEL offers high quality products
at reasonable prices either under the "ADEL" brand or private label. Today, ADEL exports its products to
more than 50 countries worldwide. ADEL, specialized in wood-cased pencils, also manufactures pencil
slats from poplar wood at its Giresun plant in Turkey. ADEL holds ISO 9001 : 2000 / EN ISO 9001 : 2000
Certificate from the TÜV CERT Certification Body for QM-Systems of RWTÜW Systems GmbH for its Istanbul
plant since 1999.