vuser
3,142
edits
Changes
MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Thursday May 02, 2024
Jump to navigationJump to searchno edit summary
'''Gerber Tools''' offers detailed information about [[keyword:=Gerber Knives]] and [[keyword:=Gerber tools|Tools]] through its large scale resale website [http://www.gerber-tools.com gerber-tools.com]
'''Gerber Tools''' offers information about [[keyword:=Gerber Knives]] and [[keyword:=Gerber tools|Tools]] through its large scale resale website [http://www.gerber-tools.com gerber-tools.com] ''Gerber Legendary Blades'' has a reputation for making quality knives with innovative designs since the companies inception in 1939.<ref name="GP">Pacella, Gerard (2002), 100 Legendary Knives, Iola, USA, Krause Publications, 145. ISBN 0873494172</ref>
==Gerber Legendary Blades==
===History===
In 1910, the Gerber family started an advertising firm in Portland, [[Directory:Oregon|Oregon]].<ref name=history>Williams, Christina Dyrness. “Inside Oregon Business: Gerber sharpens edge on growth, marketing”. ''The Oregonian'', October 9 2003, Business, p. D1.</ref> While working for the family business, Joseph Gerber mailed 24 sets of kitchen knives to clients during the holidays.<ref name=history/> These handmade knives were very popular, with then catalog retailer Abercrombie & Fitch requesting more of these knives from Gerber to sell in their catalog in 1939.<ref name=history/> Gerber then left the advertising business and started Gerber Legendary Blades that same year.<ref name=history/>
In 1966, the company relocated to a new headquarters next to Interstate 5 in what is now Tigard.<ref name=history/> Finnish company Fiskars purchased the private company in 1987.<ref name=history/> Chad Vincent was hired as chief executive officer in July 2001.<ref name=history/> By 2003 the company employed 300 people and had revenues near $100 million and was the second leading seller of multitools in the United States.<ref name=history/>
==External links==
==External links==
*[[Web:=http://www.gerber-tools.com|[http://www.gerber-tools.com Official Site]]]
*[[Web:=http://www.gerber-tools.com|[http://www.gerber-tools.com Gerber Tools Site]]]
[[Category:Page Creations]]
[[Category:Page Creations]]
[[Category:Two Point Enterprises]]
[[Category:Two Point Enterprises]]
