Orville Gibson, the inventor of the archtop guitar, founded the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Company in 1902. Gibson had good success innovating and selling guitars until the 1960s when the Norlin Corporation bought the Gibson Company. The guitar quality took a huge dip and the company was inches from bankruptcy until 1986. This is when the current owners, Henry Juszkiewicz, Gary Zebrowski, and David Berryman, purchased the company. Gibson now also owns numerous other brands including Epiphone, Steinberger, Baldwin, and Tobias.