Gibson Guitar Announces Acquisition of Garrison Guitars.NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Gibson Guitar, the world's premier musical instrument manufacturer and leader in music technology announced today its acquisition of Garrison Guitars, a company based in St. John's Newfoundland, Canada. The acquisition will further Gibson's expansion in the acoustic guitar market offering a new series of Gibson brand acoustic guitars aimed at the median price point to be introduced at the Summer NAMM NAMM International Music Products Association NAMM National Association of Music Merchants NAMM National Association of Music Manufacturers NAMM National Association of Mirror Manufacturers convention in Austin, Texas. Garrison Guitars are crafted using the latest technologies and innovations including the Griffiths Active Bracing bracing, n a resistance to the horizontal components of masticatory force. System, a revolutionary method of guitar construction that took over six years to perfect. The single unit brace brace: see drill. (character) brace - left brace or right brace. combines all the acoustic guitar's top braces See curly brace. into a single unit and allows for the resonance to have an uninterrupted path of travel throughout the instrument and provides enhanced structural stability. Offering a range of instruments in all price points, the G Series features all solid woods, hard shell cases, bolt on necks and UV finishes in a variety of wood combinations. The AG Series offers an affordable line using the patented bracing system technology. The company also manufacturers all solid wood mandolins and mandolas in its 20,000 square foot facility in Canada. Garrison will join the historic division of Gibson Acoustic guitars offering top quality acoustic performance instruments along with superb craftsmanship Craftsmanship Alcimedon a first-rate carver in wood. [Rom. Lit.: Vergil Eclogues, iii. 37.] Argus skillful builder of Jason’s Argo. [Gk. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 29] Athena (Rom. . The acquisition allows for Gibson Guitar to offer musical enthusiasts around the world the best acoustic guitar in every major price point. The company's portfolio includes Gibson Acoustic guitars built in Bozeman, Montana Bozeman is a city in southwestern Montana, USA. It is the county seat of Gallatin County. With a 2000 population of 27,509, Bozeman is the fifth largest city in the state. The city is named after John M. Bozeman, founder of the Bozeman Trail. , Epiphone acoustic guitars and Garrison acoustic guitars. The company plans on shipping the new Garrison acoustic guitars by August of 2007 and will be Gibson branded. "We are very excited about the recent acquisition of Garrison Guitars and welcome the entire Garrison family to ours," said Henry Juszkiewicz, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Gibson Guitar. "This strategic move will give our consumers several new offerings of Gibson acoustic guitars in price ranges which also provide quality, craftsmanship and sound that only a true Gibson acoustic guitar can offer. We will continue to work with its founder, Chris Griffiths and expect the popularity of these acoustic guitars to have many musicians worldwide striking a new chord chord, in geometry chord (kôrd), in geometry, straight line segment both end points of which lie on the circumference of a circle or other curve; it is a segment of a secant. A chord passing through the center of a circle is a diameter. ." "My co-workers and I are extremely excited about our new beginning as the newest edition to the Gibson family of brands. Being a part of Gibson allows us to do so much more than we could have achieved on our own. Furthermore, Gibson's reputation for strong community involvement and the expansion and new job creation is sure to impress everyone here in St. John's, who have supported us so well over the years," said Chris Griffiths, Garrison founder. The Garrison factory is being retrofitted to produce the new Gibson guitar models and will create over 40 new permanent full time positions to keep up with the demand. Gibson is also investing in new equipment and technologies so that further expansion, which is anticipated, can be considered at the location. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. About Garrison Guitars: Founded by Chris Griffiths of St. John's Newfoundland, Canada in 1999, Garrison Guitars was born to commercialize a revolutionary new bracing system called the Griffiths Active Bracing System. In early 2001, Garrison Guitars opened an acoustic guitar manufacturing company in Canada tooled with the latest robotics robotics, science and technology of general purpose, programmable machine systems. Contrary to the popular fiction image of robots as ambulatory machines of human appearance capable of performing almost any task, most robotic systems are anchored to fixed positions , laser cutting, cnc milling and UV finishing. The 20,000 square foot factory produced orders for distribution in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Australia, United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, China, Japan and Canada. Garrison Guitars was awarded a "Golden Axe Golden Axe is a side-scrolling arcade hack-and-slash game released in 1989 by Sega. It is the first game in the series. Makoto Uchida was the primary developer of the game and also was responsible for the creation of Altered Beast. Award" for Best Value by Harmony Central in 2000. In addition, Garrison Guitars and its founder have won over 14 different awards for innovation, business planning, export growth, leadership and entrepreneurship. For more information on Garrison Guitars and Gibson Guitar go to www.gibson.com. About Gibson Guitar: Gibson is known worldwide for producing classic models in every major style of fretted instrument, including acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins, and banjos. Gibson's HD.6X-PRO Digital Guitar represents the biggest advance in electric guitar design in over 70 years. Founded in 1894 in Kalamazoo, Michigan “Kalamazoo” redirects here. For other uses, see Kalamazoo (disambiguation). Kalamazoo is the largest city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 77,145. , and headquartered in Nashville since 1984, Gibson Guitar Corp.'s family of brands now includes Epiphone, Dobro, Maestro (1) (Maestro NT) An earlier name for scheduling software for Windows NT from Tivoli Systems, Inc. When IBM acquired Tivoli in 1996, the program was renamed IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler. , Kramer, Steinberger, Tobias, Echoplex, Electar, Flatiron, Garrison, Gibson Baldwin Music Education, Slingerland, Valley Arts, Maestro, Oberheim, Sunshine Piano, Take Anywhere Technology, Baldwin, J&C Fischer, Chickering, Hamilton, and Wurlitzer. Visit Gibson's website at www.gibson.com or www.gibson.com/press. QUALITY PRESTIGE INNOVATION |
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