Sprout World is a Danish company developing sustainable consumer products. The company was established in 2012 by Danish entrepreneurs Michael Stausholm and Jonathan Løw. The company's main product is the Sprout Pencil, which was originally invented by three students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.
Sprout was commercially successful in Denmark and a number of other European countries. In the autumn of 2013, Løw, decided to leave Sprout. and Stausholm took over the business. Today, the company sells more than 450,000 pencils a month in more than 60 different countries.
Currently, Sprout has offices in Denmark and the US.
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Sprout World Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA