OSLO — The original makers of Norway’s “Oestehoevel” cheese slicer are bankrupt because their 84-year-old design doesn’t appear to cut it in the market anymore.
The triangular cheese slicers are a Norwegian national icon, and were even made with official Olympic rings for the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer.
District Court records say the Lillehammer-based Thor Bjoerklund og Soenner AS filed for bankruptcy Monday after a sharp decline in sales. The company was founded by Thor Bjoerklund soon after he invented the cheese slicer in 1925.
The failure of the 15-employee company made national news in Norway on Tuesday. The slicer has a flat, slitted steel blade that is mounted on a handle.
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