We've been using man pens all these years," and comedian Bridget Christie titling her 2013 Edinburgh festival show A Bic For Her. The BIC® Cristal® pen, the BIC® full-size pocket lighter and the BIC® Classic Original and Classic sensitive one-blade razors are made a part of the permanent collection of the Musée national d’Art moderne/ Centre de création industrielle-Centre Georges Pompidou Paris. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. If the look of your ballpoint is important to you, you can also choose a pen according to the barrel colour.

The shape of the barrel echoes that of a traditional wooden pencil, with hexagonal sides that ensure a comfortable and stable grip. Response Strategies of Haco Industries Kenya Limited to the Challenges of Counterfeit Products in East Africa" (PDF). He owned a factory on the edge of Paris that he was using to manufacture parts for fountain pens and draughtsman’s pencils.After he bought the patent for the Biro, Bich invested in Swiss technology capable accurately cutting the tungsten tip into a sphere with a diameter of one millimetre that would allow the ink to flow freely around it. We have everything you need for the office, for back to school, and for when you’re feeling creative. Major museums across the globe, like the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Musée d'Art Moderne/Pompidou Centre in Paris have added the BIC Cristal Original pen to their permanent collections. It was introduced in 1950 and is the best-selling pen in the world, with the 100 billionth sold in September 2006. Priority deliveries cannot be offered to all locations, and occasionally shipments may be delayed by credit checks.

The Bic pen has a small hole on the barrel, which ensures that the air pressure is the same inside and outside of the pen, helping to prevent it from leaking. Marcel Bich and Édouard Buffard create Société BIC to manufacture and distribute BIC® ballpoint pens. Its smoked barrel gives you the transparency you need to check the ink level while its handy cap matches the colour of the ink so you can easily find your pen in a second. The ball bearing is engineered to perfection so the ink evenly flows from the point for seamlessly smooth writing.Raymond Savignac creates a character with a ballpoint head for the “Nouvelle Bille” (new ballpoint) campaign in 1960. BIC Group signs an agreement to acquire a stake in Cello Pens, the number one brand of writing instruments in India. It was then changed to tungsten carbide, which is made from fusing carbon and tungsten together at a heat of a whopping 2000 degrees Celsius! Products likely to be impacted by this higher rate parcel send are: boxes of paper, multiple quantities of water, desk stands or furniture and volume packs of cleaning supplies.

To broaden its range of stationery products, BIC purchases Wite-Out®, a famous American brand of correction products. Staples is a one-stop destination for a broad selection of thousands of products from many well known brands. In 1953 advertising executive Pierre Guichenné advised Bich to shorten his family name to Bic as an easy-to-remember, globally adaptable trade name for the pen, which fit in with product branding trends of the post-war era.Spark your creative writing and find the right pens and pencils for your pencil case, in our wide stationery range. For a range of writing equipment take a look at our comprehensive Writing and Correction range where you can also find Marker Pens for flexible and reliable marking. For smaller or precise writing styles, the Bic Cristal Blue Ultra Fines Ballpoint Pens are perfect for you. io/pimberly/595e406f0f15f30010780448/tr:w-1000,h-1000,cm-pad_resize/3ffb6bcf/5e218a4149279121b3000207/6449a731/BC59416_01. The Cristal's design has become a target for counterfeiters, especially from the Far East and in particular from China.