IKEA pencil

They are found in small boxes attached to poles, together with maps, measuring tapes and shopping forms.

[3] During this time, the competitor only provided six pens for each catalogue stand while IKEA offered them in large dispensers.

[3] IKEA orders 5.2 million pencils yearly for its Canadian stores alone,[4] and the company does not disapprove of customers that put them to other uses such as craft projects or works of art.

[4] When an IKEA store first opened in South Korea, two years' worth of free pencils were consumed in the span of two months.

[5] Being disposable, the pencils are also used by surgeons to mark osteotomy cuts in craniofacial and maxillofacial surgery.