Originally Posted by
Cari-in-Oly
I'm sorry, but this is not true. In 2006, the holding company that had just brought Singer out of yet another bankruptcy acquired VSM(who owned Viking and Pfaff) keeping it out of bankruptcy. So in a sense Singer did buy Viking. The machines for all three brands are made in Shanghai China. This is straight from the SVP website.
Cari
The boxes that both of my two Vikings came in along with the website say made in Sweeden. I'll trust that. If you look at what you wrote Singer did not buy out Viking, just the opposite. You said VSM (who already owned Viking) bought out Singer then Viking bought out Singer. YOu said that Singer bought out Viking. It doesn't really matter. The machines are all great and we buy more from over seas than we realize. We can try as much as possible to buy all American made but with so many countries being able to make parts cheaper not all American made products are 100% American made. I actually have/have had 4 machines total that are Viking and can't say a bad word about any of them. I also have a 25yr old Singer that is great but would be leary about buying one today because of their reputation.