Two Old Hippies
and Breedlove
Announce Merger
BY REBECCA DIRKS
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BEND, OR – Two Old Hippies and
Breedlove have announced that
Breedlove will join the Two Old
Hippies family of guitar brands
that includes Bedell Guitars and
Great Divide Guitars. According
to the press release announcing the
merger, Breedlove production will
remain under supervision of Kim
Breedlove in Bend, Oregon.
“It’s just an amazing fit. Tom
and I only met a few short months
ago, but the level of convergence
of passion, experiences, and com-
mitment to the values we learned
growing up in the sixties is amaz-
ing,” said Breedlove. “Breedlove is
just a natural fit for the culture at
Two Old Hippies—it’s all about
doing the right thing, feeling good,
and remembering what got us
excited about the music business in
the first place.”
Tom Bedell, Two Old Hippies
co-founder, added, “We will con-
tinue to operate with little to no
change in the Breedlove distribu-
tion network, programs, or prod-
uct lines in the near future.”
The C25/CRe Herringbone from Breedlove’s more affordable Ameri- can Series, launched early 2010.
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