Taylor Guitars (Westland Music Co. / Taylor-Listug): brand owner behind Taylor

Company

Years	Relationship	Company
2020–now^{[2, 3, 4, 5]}	subsidiary of	Taylor Guitars ESOP
2011–now^{[6, 7, 8]}	parent of	Crelicam

Years

Relationship

Company

2020–now^{[2, 3, 4, 5]}

subsidiary of

Taylor Guitars ESOP

2011–now^{[6, 7, 8]}

parent of

Crelicam

Plants it ran, and the brands built there

Taylor Guitars (Westland Music Co. / Taylor-Listug) ran 4 plants on record. The brands below were built at those plants, whoever owned the name.

Plant	Ran it	Brands built there
Taylor American Dream / Westland (Lemon Grove) Lemon Grove, CA, USA^{no source}	1974–1987^[9]	Taylor Taylor USA · 1974–1987^[9]
Taylor Santee Santee, CA, USA^{no source}	1987–1992^[10]	Taylor Taylor USA · 1987–1992^[10]
Taylor El Cajon (1980 Gillespie Way) El Cajon, CA, USA^[11]	1992–now^[10]	Taylor Taylor USA · 1992–now^{[10, 12]}
Taylor Tecate Tecate, Baja California, Mexico^{no source}	2000–now^[13]	Taylor Taylor USA, Taylor Tecate (Mexico) · 1999–now^[]

Years	Brand	How	Source
1974–now	Taylor	owns	community^{[15, 4, 13, 1, 16]}

Years

Brand

How

Source

1974–now

Taylor

owns

community^{[15, 4, 13, 1, 16]}

Eras as owner

6 eras under this owner. One owner can span several plants, so “owned by Taylor Guitars (Westland Music Co. / Taylor-Listug)” is not one thing either.

Years	Line	Plant
1974–1987^{[15, 4, 13, 1, 16, 9]}	Taylor USA	Taylor American Dream / Westland (Lemon Grove)
1987–1992^{[15, 4, 13, 1, 16, 10]}	Taylor USA	Taylor Santee
1992–2020^{[15, 4, 13, 1, 16, 10, 12]}	Taylor USA	Taylor El Cajon (1980 Gillespie Way)
2000–2020^[15]

Years

Line

Plant

1974–1987^{[15, 4, 13, 1, 16, 9]}

Taylor USA

Taylor American Dream / Westland (Lemon Grove)

1987–1992^{[15, 4, 13, 1, 16, 10]}

Taylor USA

Taylor Santee

1992–2020^{[15, 4, 13, 1, 16, 10, 12]}

Taylor USA

Taylor El Cajon (1980 Gillespie Way)

2000–2020^[15]

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.

Taylor Guitars company history (timeline)graded primary

Bob and Kurt buy out partner Steve Schemmer, incorporate as Taylor-Listug, Inc.Taylor Guitars (Westland Music Co. / Taylor-Listug), kind and country
Westland Music Company changes its name to Taylor Guitars.Taylor, owns, 1974–now

musicinstrumentnews: 2021/01/11/taylor guitars transitions ownership to its employeesgraded secondary

"transition to 100% employee ownership through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan"Subsidiary of Taylor Guitars ESOP

Taylor Transitions to 100% Employee Ownership Through an ESOPgraded primary

The company is now officially 100 percent employee owned.Subsidiary of Taylor Guitars ESOP
After sharing the news that they had signed the paperwork to make the ownership transition official in late DecemberSubsidiary of Taylor Guitars ESOP

taylorguitars: issue/2021 issue 2/cover story/keeping good companygraded primary

on December 31, while you were ramping up your holiday celebrations, Kurt and Andy and I were signing the documents.Subsidiary of Taylor Guitars ESOP
"on December 31… signing the documents to officially transition the ownership"

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Taylor Guitars (Westland Music Co. / Taylor-Listug)

Corporate family

Plants it ran, and the brands built there

Brands controlled

Eras as owner

Sources