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I believe Fischer is the last large family owned ski company.
Excellent products can be made anywhere. My new Head e-Supershapes were made in the Czech Republic. The quality all depends on what the owners want...and sometimes on how closely they watch the process. My Stöcklis are not excellent just because they were made in Switzerland; they are excellent because the Swiss owners wanted them to be excellent.
Less about what brand ownership wants, and more about QA processes that are in place at the factory. If you have a brand that comes in, and the QA / sourcing people for that brand work closely with the production and QA teams at the factory (and they should be seperae divisions / separate managements / separate payrolls) it tends to raise the QA element of all brands produced there, with all brands benefiting.