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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded | 1939; 86 years ago (1939), inPortland, Oregon, U.S. |
| Headquarters | Portland, Oregon |
Key people | Pete Gerber, Founder |
| Products | |
| Revenue | US$100 million[when?] |
Number of employees | 300[when?] |
| Parent | Fiskars |
| Website | www |
Gerber Legendary Blades is an American maker ofknives,multitools, and other tools for outdoors and military headquartered inPortland, Oregon. Gerber is owned by the Finnish outdoors products companyFiskars. Gerber was established in 1939 by Pete Gerber.
Gerber is the "largest maker of knives and multi-tools for theUnited States armed forces."[1] The LMF II Infantry Knife, features a partialtang blade instead of a full tang blade, ostensibly to avoid electric shocks because the knife was designed to free pilots from downed aircraft.[2]
Gerber was the first knife company to collaborate with a custom knife maker when it collaborated withWorld War II knife makerDavid Murphy.[3]
In 2010Bear Grylls designed a line of Gerber survival knives, including the best selling Ultimate knife. TheBear Grylls range from Gerber progressed to including items such as a water bottle, survival kit and tinder grinder.
In 1910, the Gerber family started an advertising firm inPortland, Oregon.[4] While working for the family business, Joseph Gerber mailed twenty-four sets of kitchen knives to clients during the holidays.[4] These handmade knives were very popular, with then catalog retailerAbercrombie & Fitch requesting more of these knives from Gerber to sell in their catalog in 1939.[4] Gerber started Gerber Legendary Blades that same year.[4]
In 1966, the company relocated to new headquarters inTigard, Oregon.[4] Finnish companyFiskars purchased the private company in 1987.[4]
Chad Vincent was hired as chief executive officer in July 2001.[4] By October 2003, the company employed three hundred people, and had revenues near $100 million and was the second leading seller of multitools in the United States,[4] afterLeatherman, another company based in thePortland area.
Designers who have since designed knives for Gerber include:Bob Loveless, Paul Poehlmann,Blackie Collins,William Harsey Jr., Fred Carter, Rick Hinderer, Brad Parrish,Ernest Emerson and Matt Larsen.[3] Former Gerber employees who have started their own successful knife companies includeAl Mar andPete Kershaw.[3]Gerber built a line of folding knives based on designs ofRex Applegate.[3]
Models of Gerber fixed blade knives include:
Models of Gerber folding knives include:
Models of Gerber multi tools include:
Gerber recently announced several new knives and one multi tool at the2019 SHOT Show.
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