D.H. Baldwin & Co.: brand owner behind Gretsch

Company

Plants it ran, and the brands built there

D.H. Baldwin & Co. ran 3 plants on record. The brands below were built at those plants, whoever owned the name.

Plant	Ran it	Brands built there
Gretsch Brooklyn (60 Broadway) Brooklyn, NY, USA^[1]	1967–1970^[2]	Gretsch Gretsch Brooklyn · 1916–1970^{[2, 3, 4]}
Gretsch Booneville AR Booneville, AR, USA^{no source}	1970–1973^[5]	Gretsch Gretsch Baldwin Arkansas · 1970–1981^{[6, 5]}
Gretsch Booneville AR Booneville, AR, USA^{no source}	1978–1981^{[6, 5]}	Gretsch Gretsch Baldwin Arkansas · 1970–1981^{[6, 5]}

Years	Brand	How	Source
1967–1984	Gretsch	owns	secondary^{[2, 7]}

Years

Brand

How

Source

1967–1984

Gretsch

owns

secondary^{[2, 7]}

Eras as owner

3 eras under this owner. One owner can span several plants, so “owned by D.H. Baldwin & Co.” is not one thing either.

Years	Line	Plant
1967–1970^{[2, 7, 3, 4]}	Gretsch Brooklyn	Gretsch Brooklyn (60 Broadway)
1970–1981^{[2, 7, 6, 5]}	Gretsch Baldwin Arkansas	Gretsch Booneville AR
1978–1979^{[2, 7, 8]}	Gretsch Baldwin Arkansas	Gretsch Mexico small runs (location unverified)

Years

Line

Plant

1967–1970^{[2, 7, 3, 4]}

Gretsch Brooklyn

Gretsch Brooklyn (60 Broadway)

1970–1981^{[2, 7, 6, 5]}

Gretsch Baldwin Arkansas

Gretsch Booneville AR

1978–1979^{[2, 7, 8]}

Gretsch Baldwin Arkansas

Gretsch Mexico small runs (location unverified)

Sources

Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.

Gretsch Historygraded community

In 1916, Fred Sr. moved operations to 10-story building at 60 Broadway in the Williamsburg section of in Brooklyn, N.Y.Gretsch Brooklyn (60 Broadway), location

acousticmusic: guitar music research/guitar information/large shop guitar builders/gretschgraded secondary

"Manufacturing continued for 3 years at the 60 Broadway factory"Ran Gretsch Brooklyn (60 Broadway), 1967–1970
"In 1967, Fred Gretsch, Jr. sold the Gretsch Company to… D. H. Baldwin"Gretsch, owns, 1967–1984
"merged Gretsch with Kustom in November 1979… Baldwin went bankrupt in 1983"Gretsch, owns, 1967–1984

guitarinsite: gretsch factoriesgraded community

60 Broadway, Brooklyn (1916)Gretsch built at Gretsch Brooklyn (60 Broadway)

craveguitars: brands gretsch six-string synopsisgraded community

in 1916, manufacturing and offices moved to larger premises, still in BrooklynGretsch built at Gretsch Brooklyn (60 Broadway)

jedistar: gretsch 2/ampgraded secondary

"Production continued in Arkansas until 1981"Ran Gretsch Booneville AR, 1970–1973

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D.H. Baldwin & Co.

Plants it ran, and the brands built there

Brands controlled

Eras as owner

Sources