I just did the research and SVP which is a global Investment Co. bought the rights to Singer, Viking and Pfaff's. They are all being made in China. They are "in talks with Bernina,Elna/White and others?. The theory being the same machinery can make all machines at a lower cost. The computers are all basically the same just different programming. Slap them into different cases with different names on them and woman will buy them. Janome has refused due to their being made in Japan and their quality controls are extremely tight. Some of their cases are made "off island" but nothing that is important. The idea is to get away from having to pay dealerships for advertising, training etc. In otherwords, greed, they want to make more money with less intervention. Sell it off the shelf, they make more money. When you can't get it fixed, you will buy new. Doing demo's with machines that you can try out, cost them profit $'s. So, no more commissioned dealerships.