[3] Pentik is largely self-taught; pottery-making and leather craft started as her hobbies, before she decided to try her hand at them professionally.

[4] The company is known for its focus on employee well-being, work-life-balance, and flexible work time arrangements.

[4] Pentik has remained throughout the artistic director of the family business, working full time into her late 70s.

[9] In 2017, Pentik's two-month solo exhibition "Three Rooms" in Kunsthalle Helsinki formed part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of Finland's independence.

[2] In 2012, Anu Pentik was conferred an honorary doctorate by the University of Lapland's Faculty of Art and Design.