Leatherman

Leatherman is the trade name for the line of multitools and knives manufactured and marketed by Leatherman Tool Group of Portland, Oregon, USA. The company was founded in July 1983 by Timothy S. Leatherman and Steve Berliner in order to market his idea of a capable, easily-portable hand tool with multiple functions. That same year Leatherman sold the first multitool, which was called the PST (Pocket Survival Tool). The company has been in business more than 29 years and is directing new design effort toward specialized markets such as military and emergency medical applications in addition to fine tuning their core concepts and evolving the multitool.