Bic’s portfolio expansion to cover other needs, from lighting candles to barbecues, helped mitigate this drop, Bich said. The Human Expression category—covering pens, pencils, markers and ...

Pencils, erasers, ballpoint pens - it was always ... It wasn’t until Marcel Bich from France created the Bic company, that cheap, disposable ballpoint pens hit the market. The first Bic cost ...