Dixon’s Ticonderoga is an iconic pencil. But we’ve found that despite its reputation and branding, it’s not the best you can buy.

Dixon Ticonderoga Co. sold millions of the iconic No. 2 yellow pencils American children took back to school this month. But the 223-year-old firm has survived by relying on more than just its ...

Year-over-year sales of pencils shot up 18.8 percent in 2012, Dixon says. U.S. pencil sales reached $452.8 million in 2013, up 7 percent from a year earlier, according to the research company NPD ...

The famous yellow Dixon Ticonderoga pencil, which we have all used many times at school and at home, was invented by a Marbleheader. Joseph Dixon was born in Marblehead in 1799.

The Dixon Ticonderoga Classic Yellow Wood-Cased Pencil is not made of the same high-quality wood as our other picks—and we have reason to think it’s more prone to breaking or having an off ...

Consider the pencil. The ubiquitous, yellow (mostly), 7-inch, two-for-a-quarter lead pencil — the simplest, most convenient, least expensive of all writing instruments. The most useful, least ...

Pencil sales in the United States increased 6.8 percent last year, according to a study by the NPD Group. A major beneficiary of this low-tech uptick is Dixon Ticonderoga, the world's largest ...

Dixon Ticonderoga, the more than 100-year-old pencil and arts products company based at Heathrow in Lake Mary, will close its Versailles, Mo., manufacturing plant by the end of the year. Dixon was … ...

In most things in life, I lean toward enrolling in the old school. When it comes to computer use, which I’ve gotten better ...

We asked pencil experts to share the best pencils for students — preschool through college — and their picks include brands like Dixon Ticonderoga, General, Palomino Blackwing, Staedtler ...

That decade, the Dixon Company produced about 80,000 pencils every day. If a single pencil was missing at the end of the day, all the employees in the room were fired.

Dixon Ticonderoga sold millions of the iconic No. 2 yellow pencils American children took back to school this month. But the 223-year-old firm has survived by relying on more than just its ...