Gerber Legendary Blades

Gerber Legendary Blades, Inc.

Type	Corporation
Industry	Manufacturing
Founded	Portland, Oregon 1939 (1939)
Headquarters	Tigard, Oregon
Key people	Pete Gerber, Founder
Products	Knives
Revenue	US$100 million
Number of employees	300
Parent	Fiskars
Website	www.gerbergear.com

Gerber LHR Combat Knife designed by Matt Larsen, Bill Harsey and Chris Reeve

These are two of the most popular Gerber knives. The smaller is the Gerber LMF II and the larger is the Gerber LHR Sheath knife

Gerber Legendary Blades is a maker of consumer knives and multitools headquartered in Tigard, Oregon, United States, within the Portland metropolitan area. Currently Gerber is a sub-division of Fiskars Brands Inc, owned by the Fiskars company of Finland. Gerber was established in 1939 by Pete Gerber. Gerber was the first production knife company to collaborate with a custom knife maker when it collaborated with David Murphy.^[1]

History

In 1910, the Gerber family started an advertising firm in Portland, Oregon.^[2] While working for the family business, Joseph Gerber mailed 24 sets of kitchen knives to clients during the holidays.^[2] 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.^[2] Gerber started Gerber Legendary Blades that same year.^[2]

In 1966, the company relocated to a new headquarters next to Interstate 5 in what is now Tigard.^[2] Finnish company Fiskars purchased the private company in 1987.^[2] Chad Vincent was hired as chief executive officer in July 2001.^[2] 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, ^[2] after Leatherman, another company based in the Portland area.

Designs

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.^[1] Former Gerber employees who have started their own successful knife companies include Al Mar and Pete Kershaw.^[1] Gerber built a line of folding knives based on designs of Rex Applegate.^[1] Bear Grylls has also helped design and promote a line of survival knives and tools.

Models

Models of Gerber knives include:

the Gerber Guardian: A boot knife designed by knife maker Bob Loveless more than twenty years ago.^[1]
the Gerber Mark II:A fighting knife.^[1]
the Gerber LMF II Infantry
the Gerber 31-001901 Bear Grylls Ultimate Pro
the Gerber 22-41121 Prodigy Survival Knife
the Gerber Blackie Collins Clip-lock Diving Knife
the LMF II ASEK, or Aircrew Survival and Egress Knife
the Gerber Gator - A single blade lockback knife with an ergonomic thermoplastic handle molded to resemble alligator skin.
The Gerber/Emerson Alliance - The first automatic knife made by either company is based on the profile of Emerson Knives, Inc.'s earlier Raven knife design and is an issued item to certain military units under the NSN (NATO Stock Numbers): 5110-01-516-3243 and 5110-01-516-3244.^[3]

Gallery

Gerber
Gerber logo on machete/saw combo
Gerber machete/saw combo
A Gerber LMF II ASEK used to cut through a 220 volt electrical line during a battle in Iraq
A Gerber Compact Sport 400 multitool, closed
A Gerber Compact Sport 400 multitool, open
A Gerber Mark II combat knife, with black anodized blade
A blunt tip Gerber River Shorty dive knife
A Gerber Paraframe I framelock knife, with fine edge and dark gray titanium nitride coating.
A Gerber Suspension pocket tool, blades open
A Gerber Suspension pocket tool, pliers open
Gerber Vise keychain, 60mm long when closed
Gerber Vise, fully opened
Gerber Blackie Collins One Piece, Fixed Blade CLip-Lock Diving Knife
Gerber Vise, only side tools opened
Gerber Remix, redesigned with Paraframe opening/closing system
A Gerber Assisted-opening knife
A Gerber Paraframe framelock knife, the Gerber Guardian Backup knife with sheath, and a Gerber Multi-plier 600 with sheath.
Bear Grylls compact survival knife
Bear Grylls series Gerber Firestarter.

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 Pacella, Gerard (2002). 100 Legendary Knives. Krause Publications. p. 126. ISBN 0-87349-417-2.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Williams, Christina Dyrness. “Inside Oregon Business: Gerber sharpens edge on growth, marketing”. The Oregonian, October 9, 2003, Business, p. D1.
↑ Karwan, Chuck (2003), "Automatic Success", Tactical Knives, 9 (6): 50–54

Birds and Bees: How Businesses Are Really Born (Section on Gerber)

External links

Official website

Fiskars
Subsidiaries	Arabia Brunton, Inc. Gerber Legendary Blades Gerber Mark II Gerber 31-001901 Bear Grylls Ultimate Pro Hackman Höganäs Keramik Iittala Rörstrand Royal Copenhagen Royal Copenhagen 2010 plaquettes Royal Doulton Waterford Crystal Wedgwood

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