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You ve surely noticed it: the thumb press on BIC® lighters is red, do you know why? It s to remind users that even if it s an ultra-safe lighter, they are still using a product that

makes fire.

I NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT 10 SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT 10 GREAT ITEMS

12 DIFFERENT INKS, WHO D BELIEVE IT! Did you think that the ink in your BIC® pen, the one you doodle with when you re on the phone was the same as for the person at the other end of the line in Brazil or Thailand? Not necessarily! BIC produces 12 different types of ink adapted to the humidity

and the writing styles in each region in order to maintain constant quality of writing throughout the world.

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2 2 KM OF WRITING, THAT S AMAZING !

With just one BIC® Cristal® ballpoint pen you can do 986 sudokus, write 256 love letters or 506 post cards, scribble down 1,615 addresses or

7,770 telephone numbers Results proven by a study by the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. It's up to two or three times more than

other usual ballpoint pens.BIC ® EVOLUTION™ PENCILS:

20 YEARS OF R-EVOLUTION! Containing no wood and for most of them, having received the "NF Environnement"

label, the official French Ecolabel issued by AFNOR, the French standards organization, the BIC® Evolution ™ graphite and coloring

pencils are made from more than 50% recycled material, for example a yoghurt

container, the inside of an old refrigerator Thanks to a unique quadri-extrusion

process, the 4 components (lead, "wood", sheath and "varnish") are simultaneously heated and pushed through a special mold to form a sort of thin cylinder, a bit like a

spaghetti , then cut into pencils.

ECO CORRECTORS The Ecolutions® range of Tipp-Ex® products offers three correction

tape dispensers made from a certain percentage of recycled material. Part of the recycled plastic comes from industrial

waste from other businesses, thereby saving natural resources. The Tipp-Ex®

Ecolutions® correctors are as effective as ever and now they help the environment too!

REFILLABLE, THE BIC® CRISTAL® ??? Victor Hugo could have written

Les Misérables, one of the longest novels in the world,

with fewer than 10 BIC® Cristal® pens And now the BIC® Cristal®

is also proposed in refillable version! When will they stop? Soon we ll never be able to change for a new pen J!

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NOW ISN T THAT CLEVER Say, why is there a little hole in the bump in my BIC ® 4 Colours™ pen? The answer to that s simple it s

to make health workers lives easier because they can tie it to their lanyards and always have one of their favorite

pens handy!

WHY AN OVAL LIGHTER? The BIC® lighter has an instantly recognizable oval shape, and there s a very good reason

for it. Marcel Bich and his engineers designed this shape to perfectly fit the human hand,

at a time when pocket lighters were typically rounder or more squared.

A technical advance made possible with the help of hand surgeons.

A SHAVER THAT LASTS AND LASTS AND LASTS!

75% of men on the planet shave, imagine the challenges of being a shaver, cutting nearly 25,000 hairs per beard, that adds up to 200 km over a lifetime, without

nicking the skin and always having to go faster and faster. With those conditions, seven comfortable shavings using the BIC ® Comfort 2 and up to 10 shavings using the

BIC ® Flex 3 is really impressive!

FRAUD-RESISTANT INK FOR PROMOTIONAL PRODUCT PENS?

Amazing and absolutely necessary! BIC Graphic, the

promotional product division of BIC offers nearly a dozen types of pen that come with BIC® Fraud Defense Ink™, which resists water, light and common household solvents. It s

perfect to protect secure documents like checks and prescriptions.

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