Our ancestors learned to control fire roughly 1.8 million years ago. A lot has changed since then, but the utility of fire remains constant, keeping us warm, cooking our food, and lighting the ...

BIC Corp. and its New York-based vice president and general counsel, Steve Burkhart, are fired up over alleged knockoff lighters that are being made in China and imported into the U.S. BIC general ...

The 80-year-old French pen company now manufactures and sells to consumers around the world.

In July 2022, a TikTok user published a video that supposedly demonstrated how the vast majority of people who use BIC pocket lighters are using this product all wrong. In the video, the narrator says ...

The Bic Corp. is facing mounting lawsuits on behalf of people who have been burned — and in some cases killed — by fires they say were caused by defects in the company’s disposable butane lighters.

A recent survey across 11 European countries found that one in ten respondents have had or know someone who has had an accident linked to a pocket lighter. Nearly 75% per cent of imported lighter ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Bic’s limited-edition Hold the Phone case keeps a disposable lighter close at hand. Bic’s limited-edition Hold ...

Despite various companies' hopes that people will buy their fancy camping-specific torches, the fact is that most campers' fire-starting needs are met quite nicely with a good ol' Bic lighter. That ...