Coast Cutlery

Henry W. Brands—the first of three generations of the Brands family who would operate this Portland manufacturer and distributor—founded Coast Cutlery Company in 1919.Today, Coast has a distribution network of over 10,000 retail outlets in the United States. The company that began with a desire to provide specialty knives to fishermen and loggers in the Pacific Northwest has grown to become a world leader in the design, production, and distribution of an innovative line of quality products.