Herlitz PBS AG is a former German manufacturing company originally based in Berlin.

[1] The company was founded in Berlin by bookseller Carl Herlitz in September 1904 as a stationery wholesaler.

Günter Herlitz resumed business operations as early as the summer of 1945 (in a basement, at first), initially dealing in bargains of all kinds.

The breakthrough on the German market was made with illustrated notebooks and exercise books (animal motifs and athletic imagery).

The expansion in the 1970s was reflected in the company's change in legal form as well as its international activity.

1974 marked the establishment of "Herlitz Consult GmbH", which was commissioned in 1975 to construct a turnkey factory for exercise books in Baghdad.

Together with a bridge as well as a small mosque, which were also built, this was the largest single contract in the history of Herlitz (order volume: 38 million Deutsche mark).

In 1985, for instance, it acquired a shipping centre in Berlin-Spandau, which, according to the 1986 Guinness Book of Records, had the largest high bay warehouse in the world with over 70,000 pallet slots.

Heavy losses from 1998 to 2000 forced Herlitz to make drastic cuts at the beginning of the 21st century.

(a society with limited responsibility company headquartered in Luxembourg) acquired 64,7% of Herlitz AG's capital stock.

By 2008, Herlitz's production facilities were located in the town of Falkensee, Brandenburg, with other plants in Poland, Romania and Great Britain.

Herlitz carried a product line of around 15,000 office supplies and stationery items.