Viners is a UK brand of cutlery

Cutlery

Cutlery refers to any hand implement used in preparing, serving, and especially eating food in the Western world. It is more usually known as silverware or flatware in the United States, where cutlery can have the more specific meaning of knives and other cutting instruments. This is probably the...

, kitchenware and dinnerware products, founded in 1901 in Sheffield

Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...

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History

The company, which grew to be the biggest cutlery manufacturer in England after World War II

World War II

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, was started around 1901 by Adolphe Viener, and his sons. They were Silversmiths initially working in traditional small workshops.

Growth

One of the sons, Ruben Viner became the driving force and the firm prospered in the 1960s with a modern factory in Sheffield and subsidiaries in Ireland, France and Australia. But as the business grew far eastern imports started to flood in to the UK from the mid 1970s. They started importing cutlery to finish and Stamp "Made in Sheffield" on but the loans for the expansion were crippling the firm and they went bust in 1985, Ruben Viner having retired from the firm in 1980.

Products

• Cutlery
• Flatware
• Silverware
  Silver (household)
  Household silver or silverware includes dishware, cutlery and other household items made of sterling, Britannia or Sheffield plate silver. The term is often extended to items made of stainless steel...
  
  
• Splayds - UK License
• Bayonets during World War II
• crystal

Present day ownership

The brand

Brand

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 is now owned by US based Oneida

Oneida Limited

Oneida Limited is one of the world's largest marketers of stainless steel flatware, and offers a range of tabletop products. Its operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Australia market stainless, silverplated, and sterling flatware products, china dinnerware, and...

, the world's largest cutlery company.

• Sheffield Site;
  • Head office - Site now occupied by new DWP building
  • manufacturing - Part now occupied by Stokes tiles warehouse
  • warehousing. - Now occupied by a shopfitting firm

External links

• Viners Cutlery website