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 45 countries worldwide. ADEL, specialized in wood-cased pencils, also manufactures pencil
slats from poplar wood at its Giresun plant in Turkey. ADEL emphasizes quality as well as safety in its products. All products of Adel that are classified as toys comply with En-71 standards and all other products are also safe for human health. Since 1999 Adel has been holding ISO 9001 : 2000 / EN ISO 9001 : 2008 Certificate, latest one issued by TÜV NORD for its Istanbul plant.

With respect to the lately enacted REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) regulation within European Union, Adel has already completed pre-registration via appointing REACH Global Services SA (RGS) as the "Only Representative" to comply with the REACH regulation.