Gibson Bozeman (acoustic plant)

Name: Gibson Bozeman (acoustic plant)
Address: Bozeman, MT, USA

Bozeman, MT, USA^[1]. Built for 1 brand on record.

Reported address 1894 Orville Way (not source-checked). Ground broken 1987; first guitars July 1989 per a company blog (primary, URL not captured here); other accounts give 1988. Expansion announced March 2021 (S287), opened November 2022 (secondary). No closure found. The mid-1980s Flatiron Mandolin shop is not in the database.

More: every plant in the USA, the Gibson lineage.

Where it is

No location is on record for this plant (USA), so it is not mapped.

Brands built here

Every headstock this plant has built for, on record. A contract plant can sit behind several brands at once.

Brand	Lines	Years
Gibson	Gibson USA	1988–now^{[2, 1]}

Who ran the plant

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Years	Operator	Source
1989–now	Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024)	unverified^[2]

Production record

Years	Brand	Line	Role	Source
1988–now	Gibson	Gibson USA	full build	disputed^{no source}
1989–now	Gibson	Gibson USA	full build	unverified^{[2, 1]}

Where its materials come from

No supply records for this plant yet.

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
Gibson guitars manufacturing expansion, Bozeman, Montanagraded secondary
2
Wikipedia: wiki/Gibson (guitar company)graded community

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