Guitar Story A Brand Lineage Research Project

Company

Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co., Ltd. (later Gibson, Inc.): brand owner behind Gibson · Guitar Story

brand owner

Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co., Ltd. (later Gibson, Inc.)

USA^[1]

Plants it ran, and the brands built there

Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co., Ltd. (later Gibson, Inc.) ran 1 plant on record. The brands below were built at those plants, whoever owned the name.

Plant	Ran it	Brands built there
Gibson Kalamazoo downtown sites (pre-1917) Kalamazoo, MI, USA^[2]	1902–1917^[2]	Gibson Gibson USA · 1902–1917^[2]

Brands controlled

Years	Brand	How	Source
1902–1944	Gibson	owns	unverified^[1]
1904–1944	Gibson	owns	disputed^{no source}

Eras as owner

2 eras under this owner. One owner can span several plants, so “owned by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co., Ltd. (later Gibson, Inc.)” is not one thing either.

Years	Line	Plant
1902–1917^{[1, 2]}	Gibson USA	Gibson Kalamazoo downtown sites (pre-1917)
1917–1944^[1]	Gibson USA	Kalamazoo 225 Parsons St (1917 Gibson building)

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.

1
Wikipedia: wiki/Gibson (guitar company)graded community
2
Gibson, Inc. (Kalamazoo local history)graded secondary

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