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Logitech announces billionth mouse milestone

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3 December 2008 14:12 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

Logitech has announced that it has shipped its billionth mouse, a particularly timely revelation considering the input device is celebrating its 40th birthday.

Founded in a farmhouse in Apples, Switzerland in 1981, 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.

Logitech says it will continue to pursue "compelling innovation to delight users of the next billion mice and input devices of the future".

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