What The Press Says

Awards & Certificates

General Motors Supplier of the Year
Bicycling Magazine Editor's Choice Award
The United Inventors Association
Industrial Designer Society of America
International SA-8000
 
  Dirt Rider Magazine Product of the Year Award
  Round Table Group
  Active Member of the International BusinessExpert Witness
   
14-JUNE-11 Proud Member of SARTA: Accelerating Technology Services
  Proud member of SARTA.
12-JUNE-11 Generation Tools™ quality hand tools beat all competitors, including KLEIN™ TOOLS according to Gadget Trivia™ survey. Generation Tools™, a subsidiary of Gibbs Group LLC, makes great professional tools distributed worldwide and designed right here in Sutter County! You can see the global distribution of their products with customers in USA, Columbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Canada and Greece! Please visit this site and click/vote for GENERATION TOOLS LUCKY-7 PRO (green in color): Gadget Trivia™ Survey:
18-FEB-11 GreenFreak, LLC, a company based in Yuba City, has proposed creating a new manufacturing site in Tehama County to recycle used Styrofoam and other plastic foams into custom bobble-head cake toppers, skateboard decks, hygenique baths and professional tool sets. Read the press release here.
02-OCT-10 Y.C. man has green plan for styrofoam. GreenFreak can begin manufacturing plastic products in as little as two months, as soon as it signs a contractual agreement for expanded polystyrene with a waste management agency. Read the press release here.
22-JUNE-10 GROWYuba-Sutter Jobs Initiative Announces Local "Fabulous 50" businesses. Gibbs Group, LLC was selected as one of the Fabulous Fifty companies in the Yuba and Sutter County region. Read the press release here.
15-MAY-10 Gibbs Group Awarded Second Patent - 7,726,031 - for the Innovative Lumiknife™. Read the press release here.
10-MAY-10 Cynthia Gibbs elected to Board of Directors of the Yuba Sutter Economic Development Corporation. Read the full article here.
09-MAY-09 Gibbs Group featured on the Appeal Democrat Web Site. Read the article here or on our Web Site.
01-JAN-09 Doug Gibbs receives his thirteenth US Patent. Patent number D581,239 was issued to Gibbs recently, and this patent protects the novel design of the ubiquitous Hobby Knife. Mr. Gibbs’ design eliminates loose blades, facilitates speedy blade change and includes a light to assist with cutting in close areas. The ergonomic handle and zinc alloy body provide strength and feel substantial, resulting in unsurpassed control.
22-MAY-00 Advanced Accessory Systems - SPORT RACK DIVISION receives "SUPPLIER OF THE YEAR" award from General Motors Corp
23-NOV-99 Gibbs Group Develops Revolutionary Bike Computer; Receives Bicycling Magazine's "Editor's Choice 1999” Award
23-NOV-98 Gibbs Group Develops Biodegradable Non-Petroleum Oil; Earns Motorcycle Industry’s Dirt Rider Magazine "Best Product of 1998"
JUN-03 Patents in Commerce: An institutional development tutorial supplied to Wiley and used in Business School Universities worldwide
 
Media Releases & Articles
13-DEC-10 Gibbs Group founder, Doug Gibbs leads his team of professionals in assisting international businesses in startup and growth. Read the article here.
01-DEC-08 Gibbs Group in the winter issue of Comstock's. Download a PDF of the article here.
01-JAN-06 Gibbs Group moves to new modern design studio
20-DEC-05 Patagonia Apparel receives “Gear of the Year Award” published in Outside Magazine
15-JUN-05 Arcwave's System Passes Testing by Cox
23-DEC-04 Keeping Wine Fresh: Food Production Daily
20-SEPT-04 Cool Stuff: HGTV
30-MAY-04 Tools of Invention: Appeal Democrat Marketplace
09-APR-04 CoWave Networks and Advanced Radio Cells, Inc. (ARCi) Merge to Form Arcwave
01-OCT-02 Gibbs Group LLC Adds Staff
05-MAY-02 News Watch: Accessories; A telescoping Table Lends Relief to Rumpled Laps
01-MAY-02 Table Tote Offers Laptop Solution
05-DEC-01 Gibbs Group Adds Staff, New Offices
21-MAR-01 Business: Telecom Co-op Venture
JAN-FEB 01 Inventors' Digest Magazine -
Wheels of Genius section - "Award Winning Motorcycle Product"
MAY-JUN 99 Inventors' Digest Magazine - "Ironmen"
23-NOV-98 Gibbs Brothers Open Firm Offering Consulting Entrepreneuring