SHELTON, Conn. The BIC Cristal ball pen was first introduced to the American consumer in 1959 and cost 19 cents a pen. Despite an inflation rate of 622% since that time, the price of the pen has never ...

French company Bic recently launched a marketing effort, 'One Bic, One Book, Two Classics', in which it combined the Bic Cristal pen and a robot to produce a Romeo and Juliet manuscript that mimics ...

IT’S A KEEPER: This is one pen you won’t be lending. French jeweler Tournaire and Bic have teamed up to give the inexpensive Bic Cristal, no less than the world’s most-sold ballpoint pen, a precious ...

Open Culture's retrospective of one of the world's most successful consumer products opens with a reminder that you don't need to be shown such things because they're everywhere. Bich (the foreign ...

Imagine holding a pen that’s been in more hands than any other writing tool in the world—one that’s so iconic that it’s practically synonymous with putting pen to paper. For years, the BIC pen has ...

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most unsung ...

BIC Cristal Pen, was awarded the Iconic Ball Point Pen of the Year at the 2025 Brandcom Awards, held at Landmark Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos, recently. The award spotlights BIC’s enduring legacy, ...

There are three inevitabilities we will experience during our time on this mortal coil: we are born, we will die, and sometime in between, we will use a BIC Cristal pen. The company claims to have ...