It’s a standard yellow Bic lighter, sold in a six-pack on Amazon for about eight bucks. So why is this one worth $11,000? This rags-to-riches story began late Sunday evening when Reddit user ...

Manufacturers of refillable lighters were feeling burned last week when a federal ban on their product in carry-on and checked baggage took effect. A hastily written provision in the Intelligence ...

SHELTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, BIC, a world leader in manufacturing safe, high-quality lighters, unveiled its inaugural Lighter Safety Report drawing attention to a concerning influx of ...

BIC, the Shelton-based manufacturer well-known for its pens, shavers and lighters, has secured a key federal decision in its battle to stop copycat lighters from being imported and sold in the United ...

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 ...

MILFORD -- It was a floating eyeball, an exposed brain, and a big, black umbrella that earned Mark Haugland a trip to the BIC Lighter factory here. Haugland, a retired TV producer, is from a small ...

BIC, which makes one million pocket lighters a day at its Milford factory, has won a trademark fight that blocks hundreds of millions of imitation lighters from being imported into the U.S. from China ...