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[โ€“] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fiskars product range is weird. Kitchen utensils, gardening tools and craft equipment. Sort of made sense when all contain a blade of some sort. But a garden rake? (That is pretty decent.) Guess now that much of it is just rebranding.

[โ€“] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

No, it's mostly "what else can we do with a good forge (and guys who keep smiths operational)?"

And then, sadly, "how do we improve sales performance for things where customer would not notice it's unethical shit"

[โ€“] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Major shareholders seems to be in it for the long term, but it seems to me that all "venerable" brands are shit these days. So you can either buy mostly shit, or artisinal small scale that cost a fortune. Any new startups can never get off the ground as they can't get shelf space in any major store.

Honorable mentions are Miele, Beretta shotguns and who else?

Edit: just remembered that Beretta has a clothing line that is probably just braned crap

[โ€“] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Fiskars still makes knives in Finland, their chinese chef is something like 30 Eur, Finnish chef is 250 Eur, versus japanese or swiss at 150 Eur. Duh. Such is the cost of labor here.

And all steel stock for abovementioned blades (except for chinese) just comes from Japan anyway lol.

[โ€“] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

And, furthermore, large potential market for less-than-masterpiece artisanal is in DIY. But kitchen knives are occupational hazard if they are crappy. Needless to say, there is an artisan smith in my village, so who cares for brands.