The sad story of the Swiss Army Knife

Having lost one myself at an airport check-in, it shouldn’t come as a great surprise that the Swiss Army Knife has hit hard times in the years since 9/11. Sales plummeted 40 percent following the terrorist strike nearly four years ago and have never fully recovered. Victorinox, the Swiss company that first began manufacturing the combination pocket knife/bottle and can opener/file for the famously neutral Swiss Army in 1884, is still in business. But the only other company licensed to make the famous blade, Wegner SA, went out of business in April.