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.

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.

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 ...

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 2015, Timothy Gomez, Dixon's then-chief executive, sent a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection saying the company was still seeking government payment to cover $149 million in pencil ...

National Pencil Day (March 30) is a big deal in pencil circles. Pencil sales are better than ever, in spite of consumer infatuation with high-tech tablets and other digital tools and gewgaws.