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Gibson Brands

American guitar manufacturer
Organization business Q210278
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Summary

Gibson Brands is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,803 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3], US[4]
  • Instance of: musical instrument manufacturing company[5]
  • Founder: Orville Gibson[6]
  • Follows: Garrison Guitars[7]
  • Headquarters location: Nashville[8], Tennessee[9]
  • Child organization or unit: Epiphone[10], Kramer Guitars[11], Steinberger[12], Baldwin Piano Company[13]
  • Commons category: Gibson Guitar Corporation[14]
  • Inception: January 1, 1902[15]
  • Location of formation: Kalamazoo[16]
  • Official website: https://www.gibson.com/[17]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Gibson Brands[18]
  • Commons gallery: Gibson[19]
  • Described at URL: http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/gibson-guitar-corp-history/[20], https://geargods.net/news/dean-guitars-found-to-be-in-civil-contempt-of-recent-gibson-trademark-lawsuit/[21], https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/us/fake-gibson-guitars-seized.html[22], https://www.guitarworld.com/news/gibson-dean-court-ruling[23]
  • Product or material produced: bass guitar[24], guitar[25], electric guitar[26]
  • Described by source: MusicRadar[27]
  • Topic has template: Template:Gibson Guitar Corporation[28]
  • Official name: Gibson Brands[29], Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company[30]
  • Legal form: privately held company[31], XTIQ[32]
  • Native label: Gibson[33]
  • Owner of: TEAC Corporation[34], Kramer Guitars[35], Baldwin Piano Company[36], Epiphone[37], Dobro[38]
  • Has works in the collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art[39]
  • Social media followers: 1,051,257[40], 1,057,415[41], 275,000[42], 1,039,606[43], 323,000[44], 1,054,432[45], 373,000[46], 411,000[47], 457,000[48], 505,000[49]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300KU4ACNZQGB7J14[50]

  • Registered legal name: Gibson Brands, Inc.[51]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[52]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[53]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[54]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[55]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[56]

  • LEI first registered: 2013-07-19[57]

  • LEI last updated: 2023-08-04[58]

  • LEI next renewal: 2017-10-14[59]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[60]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[61]

  • Authority entity ID: 2056077[62]

  • Other names: Gibson Guitar Corp.[63]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[64]

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Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Gibson Brands include Gibson Amphitheatre[65], a concert hall[66], in United States[67], founded in 1972[68].

Why It Matters

Gibson Brands has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[69] It is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[70]

Entities named for it include Gibson Amphitheatre[65], a concert hall[66], in United States[67], founded in 1972[68].

Related Entities

business Epiphone Metropolitan Museum of Art privately held company Tennessee United States

References

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  27. [29] ↑ . bloomberg.com. Retrieved . bloomberg.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . Library of Congress Authorities. wikidata.org.
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  37. [39] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [50] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [51] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [52] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [53] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [54] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [55] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [56] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [57] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [58] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [59] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [60] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [61] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [62] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [63] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [64] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [65] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [66] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [67] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [68] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [69] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [70] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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