Gerber Scientific

Gerber Scientific Inc., is a parent company headquartered in Tolland, Connecticut, USA.

It supplies software and hardware systems for apparel and technical textiles, sign-making and specialty graphics, and composites and packaging applications.

Gerber Scientific is owned by Vector Capital, a San Francisco-based global private equity firm specializing in the technology sector that manages more than $2 billion of equity capital.

On August 18, 2011, Gerber Scientific's stockholders approved the take-private transaction of Gerber Scientific, Inc. by Vector Capital in a transaction valued at approximately $283 million.

CITIC Capital Partners, a leading China-based private equity firm, has a minority stake in Gerber Scientific alongside Vector.

The variable scale invented by Joseph Gerber in 1948