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Le coutelier Victorinox sauve son concurrent Wenger

  • Posted on September 7, 2011 at 1:35 am

www.victorinoxblog.com Wenger is one of the two companies that make Swiss Army knives. Based in Delémont, Wenger was acquired by rival Victorinox in 2005.[1] After Victorinox obtained Wenger, Victorinox became the sole company supplying the Swiss Army with Swiss Army knives. Formerly each company sold its knives to the Swiss Army, in equal quantities. In 1893 at Delémont in the French-speaking Canton of Jura, the industrial cutlery house of Jupiter Paul Boechat & Co received a contract from the Swiss Army to produce knives. In 1898, Theodore Wenger was hired to be its manager and later renamed the company Wenger & David. One of Wenger’s first acts was to acquire a manufacturer of spoons and forks which he moved to a rented factory in Delemont. In 1900 a new 18000 square foot facility was built. Both the utensil operations and the Courtetelle cutlery production were incorporated into the new plant now called Fabrique Suisse de Courtetellerie et Services. In 1908 the Swiss army decided to split the contract, with half of the order going to Victorinox, in the German-speaking canton of Schwyz, and the other half to Wenger in the French-speaking canton of Jura. They claim they did this in the interest of national harmony, but they may also have been interested in fostering competition. In 1929, after Theo Wenger’s death, Kaspar Oertli gained majority share in the company. In 1986, the factory was modernized following a factory fire. In 1988, Wenger started producing watches …

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