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Hal Leonard has launched an enhanced and redesigned mobile-friendly dealer access website specific for their retailers. The website makes it even easier to place and track orders, research Hal Leonard…
A few years ago, MMR retooled aspects of our auditing methodology, employing more accurate data collection and analysis tools, which resulted in numbers for 2014 that were, at the time,…
Sakae Drums recently partnered with The Drum Shop, located in Tulsa’s historical London Square shopping Centre, to treat drum enthusiasts to a private trunk show of Sakae’s lines including the…
Fishman has appointed Tom Ostrander as vice president of Global Retail Sales and Gary Lenaire as director of New Product Marketing and Sales to maximize the company’s sales effort. Ostrander…
Following the departure of long-serving sales head Antony Gunter, Orange Amplification has promoted James Deacon to international sales manager. Deacon joined Orange in 2011 as internal UK sales executive. A…
SLM extended a heartfelt congratulations and a special gift to the Summer NAMM show’s Top 100 Dealers. NAMM’s Top 100 Dealers are awarded each year for setting the bar in…
Jakob Winter is a European manufacturer of instrument cases. The “GreenLine” product series has been hugely popular in Europe and around the world and is sold in more than 100…
Former Marshall UK sales manager, Michael Clapham, has joined Tanglewood as regional sales manager. He joins the acoustic guitar specialist after a two and a half year stint at Marshall…
Guitar Center has been expanding its footprint on the East Coast with recent store grand openings in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and West Springfield, Massachusetts. These two grand openings further underscore…
Erstwhile Orange Amps sales chief, Antony Gunter, has re-emerged with a new start-up and is handling sales for US firm Boutique Amps in Europe. The new company is called G4 Sales…
Winners were announced on Friday night for the annual "NAMM Top 100 Dealers." Contemporary Music Center (Chantilly, Virginia) - owned by longtime, valued MMR contributor Menzie Pittman - got top nods…
Musical Innovations, NAMM’s 2015 Top 100 Dealer of the Year, is expanding, in order to continue providing its trademark exemplary service to schools and families in the Southeast. Four new…
