Viners is a United Kingdom brand of cutlery, kitchenware and dinnerware products, founded in 1901 in Sheffield, England by Adolphe Viener and his sons.
In mid-2000, Oneida, of the United States, paid $25 million in cash for Viners [1] which was put into administration on 30 October 2014.
[2] Merseyside-based Rayware, a privately owned housewares group, bought Viners out of administration for £1.6 million in November 2014[3] and in 2015 set about "reinvigorating the brand".
The firm prospered in the 1960s with a modern factory in Sheffield and subsidiaries in Ireland, France and Australia.
At Viners' original Sheffield site, a DWP office block replaced the cutler's head office, a tile warehouse took over part of what had been the company's manufacturing area and a shopfitting firm used what had been its warehousing space.