Gerber Gear relocates Tigard headquarters to Wilsonville

Gerber Gear, the Oregon knife and outdoor gear company, has made Wilsonville its new home. The company relocated from its longtime headquarters in Tigard to a new 80,000-square-foot building in Wilsonville so it could have all manufacturing, administrative, design and engineering in one facility. The first day in the new facility was Tuesday, Nov. 3. “Oregon is where Gerber Gear was born and will remain our home for the foreseeable future”,” said Ash Williams, Gerber’s global head of brand and product, in a press release. “The new Wilsonville facility gives our team everything it needs to continue the legacy of designing and producing legendary knives and tools, while continuing to develop Oregon as the knife making center of the USA.” Gerber Gear was founded in 1939 by Joe Gerber in Portland. In 1987, Gerber was purchased by Finnish consumer goods company Fiskars. Tigard has housed the company’s headquarters since the 1960s.

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