Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. On 29 October 1945, the New York ...

In the autumn of 1948, Marcel Bich, owner of a company located north of Paris that produced ink cartridges for fountain pens, pushed a wheelbarrow in his garden in the village of Rhuis. He considered ...

No one ever really owns a Bic pen, but it’s a business going from strength to strength. We meet its CEO, Gonzalve Bich, as he prepares to hand over control. It’s highly likely that there are several ...

Recently, Bic launched a campaign to “save handwriting.” Named “Fight for Your Write,” it includes a pledge to “encourage the act of handwriting” in the pledge-taker’s home and community, and ...

“Sharpie has a great line of pens [but] the best Sharpie pen is the S-Gel ,” says Salazar, who prefers the 0.7mm nib (it also ...

Entrants will submit an original handwritten song for the chance to win a $10K music prize and one-on-one mentorship session with singer, songwriter and producer, Charlie Puth BIC and Charlie Puth ...

The announcement prompted state House Majority Leader James A. Amann, D-Milford, to promise he would propose legislation to offer financial rewards to businesses that create new jobs and commit to ...

The idea of perforating the caps of pens appears to have started in the United Kingdom, where a new safety standard was adopted in 1990 (BS 7272). Between 1970 and 1984, nine children in the United ...