Best Selling / Most Popular Traditional Of All Time?

some of these companies are so well known theyve practically been folded into the lexicon, but if its by sheer sales number...
 
A little casual googling tells me that Victorinox sells between 10 - 26 million a year (I'm inclined to the higher end of that range, because it comes from a few business sites). Opinel is just under 10 million, Case is about 1 million. There are probably factories in China that exceed those numbers of knives (including both modern and traditional), but it would be hard to tell because they are marketed and sold under so many different brand names. So I'm inclined to say the traditional popularity prize should go to Victorinox.
 
I would be curious to know how how many knives (if any) Opinel sells in France’s former colonies around the world. Seems like a good market for a high quality but inexpensive tool, with many millions of potential customers.
 
I would say that in northern manitoba it would be schrade/old timer,case never came up our way unless someone brought one back from a holiday,every stop from winnipeg to churchill had a schrade display,they must of had a reallyy good sales rep,Saks were more a novelty carry.but then I hung with the bush crowd,I remember the knife box at my buddies moose camp was full with schrade/old timer knives americans left as a 📦
 
I am betting that the most sold of all time is probably the Victorinox classic.
Next would be the cheap knockoffs companies give away as free promo's.
 
I'm willing to bet that the old imperial Barlow would be high on the list of best selling traditional

Cheap, available everywhere and reliable enough.

I wonder how many they made over the years.


That or the Camillus electrician knife. Those things were (are) everywhere.
 
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