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[RescueRiley]

I read recently about the poss that victorinbox was going to outsource the production of thier knives to canada, anyone else here about this?

 

[ToddW]

Nope I haven't... this will be interesting!

Hope someone can fill us in.

 

[Kiah]

Wouldn't it actually cost them more to outsource to Canada?

 

[Esav Benyamin]

One of the reasons for Victorinox buying out Wenger was to keep those jobs in Switzerland. Why would they outsource them now?

Rumors are fun, but pretty much worthless without a source. Perhaps the outsourcing refered to non-knife products, of which they sell quite a bit now.

Canada might provide them with red Victorinox mukluks.

Or Normark might have gotten a contract for Kydex sheaths !!!

 

[RescueRiley]

Canada was my mistake....I meant china, sorry thinking of 2 things at the same time

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Wrong rumor. Supposedly, EU rules insist that a contract as large as that the Swiss Army has for Swiss Army Knives must be put up for international (WTO) bid. A question then arose that China might win such a bid, cutting Victorinox and Wenger out of the business.

Here's the previous thread, from the multitool forum: Swiss Army knife made in China?

 

[btuner]

theres plenty of info in the multi tool forum

 

[rzwieg]

The Swiss should tell the WTO to get bent.

 

[Fonly]

Canada was my mistake....I meant china, sorry thinking of 2 things at the same time

you, china? with canada?

I dont know what to say, haha.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

New Yorkers are really quite provincial, in our own sophisticated way. Don't get to spend much time outside the concrete canyons, y'know.

Check out Saul Steinberg's New Yorker cover: "View of the World from 9th Avenue". (Click on the pic to enlarge it.)