Janome/New Home is an old company now merged with New Home first and then the Pfaff/Singer merge secondly....they have all adopted the best features of each company and are really putting out quite nice little machines for all 4 brands... did you get the automatic needle threader? it is wonderful and is included now on most of the models from all 4 companies... that came from pfaff originally, but each of the companies have great feet, feed dogs, pattern stitches and physical features that are being shared throughout.... enjoy your new machine...