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The BIC Cristal (stylised as BiC Cristal and also known as the Bic Biro) is an inexpensive, disposable ballpoint pen mass-produced and sold by Société Bic of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France. [1] It was introduced in 1950 and is the best-selling pen in the world, with the 100 billionth sold in September 2006.
Bich soon perfected the design of the ballpoint pen, and the Bic Cristal ballpoint pen became the company's first product in 1950. [6] [7] The Bic Cristal has sold over one hundred billion units since its launch in 1950. [8] Bich formed Société Bic in 1953, [4] and the company was listed on the Paris Stock Exchange in 1972. [9]
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Marcel Bich bought the patent for the ballpoint pen [5] for US$2 million from Hungarian László Bíró who had been producing such pens since 1943 in Argentina. Using Swiss watchmaking tools, he devised a manufacturing process that produced stainless-steel balls for the tip of the pen, [4] and the Bic Cristal ballpoint pen became his first ...
The Bic pen, more correctly titled the Bic Cristal, is possibly the company's best known product. When I think "Bic Pen," I think of the round, white-barrelled Bic White Stic pens, which this OfficeMax page calls "BIC's best-selling pen." I'm sure they outsell Cristals in the U.S., but possibly not in the rest of the world.
NO One Has Noticed that Bis Cristal and bic Stic are not the same product, perhaps this page should be fixed or split, both pens are fairly iconic, but the picture on the page shows the stic, the cristal has a clear body. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.16.39.141 20:31, 11 February 2008 (UTC) This is not at all a good article.
The Universal Typeface Experiment was a promotional website funded by Bic, the maker of the Bic pen.The website crowdsourced a typeface with mobile users who entered their handwriting on the website using a touchpad and the then newly updated BIC pen called the Cristal Stylus, which included a touchpad-friendly rubber tip.
Bic Cristal Before the 2000s, the Bic Cristal was named "Bic Classic" pen. Prior to the 1990s, "Bic Classic" was referred to simply as the "Bic pen". CSI: Las Vegas Not used before the debut of the spinoff series CSI: Miami in 2002, and CSI: NY in 2004. Curved, curly or smart quotes Straight quotes were made widespread by typewriters.