Alox handle models disappearing?

Their railroad age way of thinking, yes. That one.

Very much like Colt watching Sig, Beretta, Glock, and HK steal their lunch money for decades.
 
Hmmmmm. I don't think anyone will be stealing victoinox lunch anytime soon. With that said I think their business practice at the moment is to streamline. Keeping some odd models alive like harvesters and ranchers for a very small percentage of their market (us Knife nuts) isn't priority. Not when you move the amount of product that they do. This is just my take.
 
Captain Howdy said:
Hmmmmm. I don't think anyone will be stealing victoinox lunch anytime soon. With that said I think their business practice at the moment is to streamline. Keeping some odd models alive like harvesters and ranchers for a very small percentage of their market (us Knife nuts) isn't priority. Not when you move the amount of product that they do. This is just my take.
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+1 Thank you CH...I lack the resolve these days. :thumbup:
 
I like Victorinox and they aren't as 19th century myopic as Colt, but I maintain the opinion that if they had been forward and aggressive with their brand value advantage that Gerber, Leatherman and SOG might not have grown into the forces to be reckoned with in the industry that they are. But having said that I'm very glad they are all around and like them all for different reasons.
 
I would be very surprised if Gerber, Leatherman, and SOG all combined, have the annual product output world wild that Victorinox has. I think they know exactly what they are doing in the market place. SOG in particular is a relatively small company in a certain niche, and nowhere near an international giant like Victorinox or the Fiskars owned Gerber.

Leatherman is probably the nearest serious competitor on the international market, but Leatherman still suffers from a price disadvantage as international distribution to some far off places.

I think somewhere in the depths of the Victorinox corporate offices is some genius/geniuses who are keeping a very sharp eye on the market, and just what and which of Victorinox's products are selling well. If something is lagging behind, it will be culled in the name of efficiency. In the end, it's always about the money, in spite of what anguish it causes obsessed fans of the brand like us.

But…that little three letter word appears…as much as I love alox, I can take the disappearance of the alox line like the rancher, alox bantam, Wenger SI that I love, if Vic would just replace the XXXXing cellidor scales with textured or checkered nylon like the 111mm's!


HEY ELSNER, YOU HEAR THAT?

Yeah, a checkered nylon scaled pioneer or tinker. The stuff dreams are made of.

I'll be in my bunk.
 
It is all business, their company has a market that is going strong and that market if for plastic scales with only a few of their customers buying the more expensive Alox. Any company worth their salt will discontinue products with a low profit margin.

Victorinox is not outdated but what is very popular online are tactical knives while the SAK is for the people who want just one knife in their pocket and who don't obsess online about their next knife purchase.
 
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