Zebra Co., Ltd. is a Japanese manufacturer of writing instruments. Zebra Pen Corporation (the American branch) was founded in New York in 1982 as an independent corporation wholly owned by Zebra Co. Ltd. The company sells a wide range of pens, pencils, and highlighters through retail stores, wholesalers and mail order. The Zebra Pen Corporation offers a line of writing instruments that include ball point pens, gel pens, roller ball pens, fountain pens, mechanical pencils and highlighters.