Logitech ships it’s 1 billionth mouse

December 11, 2008 by jim
Filed under Computing

I believe it’s worth noting that Logitech has in fact shipped its 1,000,000,000th mouse. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the first mouse (by Doug Engelbart’s legendary public debut of the computer mouse), Logitech is predicting the future with what else… more mice to go around the world.

They’re projecting about a billion more by the year 2014. What a milestone foresight, eh? Here’s an info bit from their website: “Founded in a farmhouse in Apples, Switzerland in 1981 and shortly thereafter establishing strong ties in Silicon Valley, Logitech introduced its first retail mouse in 1985 and reached the 100 millionth mouse mark in 1996. Sales of Logitech mice topped 500 million seven years later. Today, Logitech sells mice in more than 100 countries worldwide and manufactures an average of 376,000 mice per day and 7.8 million every month.”

Now to make this event more fun, Logitech has begun a contest to see where this billionth mouse will be purchased. Their blog will track this mouse from the assembly line until the actual purchase. A special prize (still undisclosed) to the lucky person to have the billionth mouse in his possession.

Visit Logitech’s blog for more details.

And an info shot about Logitech:

Logitech is a world leader in personal peripherals, driving innovation in PC navigation, Internet communications, digital music, home-entertainment control, gaming and wireless devices. Founded in 1981, Logitech International is a Swiss public company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (LOGN) and on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (LOGI).

Looks like this is a company worth sinking your money in. By 2014… 9 out of 10 people will own a mouse!

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