About Gore

Founded in 1958, W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. is a privately-held company headquartered in Newark, Delaware, USA. For more than 50 years, Gore has built a worldwide reputation for ethics and integrity in its dealings with customers, suppliers, and employees, and for taking a long-term view when assessing business situations.

Today, Gore has approximately 9,000 employees, called associates, located in 30 countries worldwide, with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Germany, Scotland, Japan, and China, and sales offices around the world.

Annual revenues are $2.5 billion. Our fluoropolymer products provide innovative solutions throughout industry, in next-generation electronics, for medical products, and with high-performance fabrics. We've repeatedly been named among the "100 Best Companies to Work For," in the U.S. by FORTUNE magazine, and our culture is a model for contemporary organizations seeking growth by unleashing creativity and fostering teamwork.

While we may be best known for our GORE-TEX® fabrics, all our products are distinguished in their markets. Our technologies and fluoropolymer expertise are unsurpassed.

We create next-generation cable assemblies and components for the electronics industry, set the standard for outerwear comfort and protection, solve difficult industrial problems with innovative materials and technology, and Gore medical products work in harmony with the body's own tissues to restore normal body function.

We take our reputation for product leadership seriously, continually delivering new products and better solutions to the marketplaces of the world.

Our Culture: How we work sets us apart. Gore encourages hands-on innovation, involving those closest to a project in decision making. Teams organize around opportunities and leaders emerge.

Gore Locations Worldwide: Perhaps best known for its consumer products like GORE-TEX® fabric and ELIXIR® guitar strings, Gore is a leading manufacturer of thousands of advanced technology products for the electronics, industrial, fabrics, and medical markets. The company is headquartered in Newark, Delaware, and has approximately 9,000 employees, called associates, located in 30 countries worldwide, with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Germany, Scotland, Japan, and China, and sales offices around the world.

Gore at a Glance: Fast facts and figures about W. L. Gore and Associates.

Diversity at Gore: Our culture welcomes different viewpoints and people from a variety of environments and backgrounds. Our unique lattice organization and core principles are catalysts to participation, communication, and creativity.

Our History: Founders Bill and Vieve Gore started W. L. Gore & Associates in the basement of their home in 1958. The company initially served the electronic products market. Fifty years later, Gore is celebrating its long success at translating dreams into tangible, valuable realities for customers and communities around the world.

Visit Other Gore Web Sites: Check out these other Gore Web sites for brands, product information, and region-specific sales and customer service.

REACH: As a company committed to sound science, we support the aim of the EU legislation called REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) which is to "ensure a high level of protection of human health and the environment…while enhancing competitiveness and innovation."

Read about Gore: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., is as well known for its unique organizational style as it is for its unique products. If you're interested in reading what others have to say about our company, the books and articles below are good places to start.