Hoffritz for Cutlery

Eventually, he left the store around 1928 and started a cutlery business as "Hoffritz & Boschen", located in the Hotel McAlpin at 1292 Broadway.

A 1941 profile of Hoffritz in the Brooklyn Eagle, when he now had three locations, wrote that "hundreds in all walks of life now beat a track daily to his shops at 551 Fifth Ave., 331 Madison Ave., and 1292 Broadway.

He has any kind of scissors from a dainty silver one-inch blade affair with which proud clumsy fathers can safely trim the fragile pink nails of a new-born baby, to the fierce-looking machete or dagger.

[9] In 1975, brothers Joel and Leonard Silver bought Hoffritz out of the Federal's bankruptcy proceedings in a leveraged buyout.

Precise International resumed supplying them on a "pay as you go" basis (despite still being owed a significant sum), knowing it was their only chance.

Precise's president said "the names of Hoffritz and Swiss Army knives are synonymous, so if we had decided not to ship to them, they would die.

Hoffritz razor is also mentioned in the book "The Man With The Golden Gun", as a gift from Felix Leiter to James Bond.