Faith Guitars brand reaches Spain
The Faith acoustic guitar brand is continuing its international expansion, with Barnes & Mullins having secured its first Spanish distribution deal. The firm has struck an exclusive distribution deal with…
Sweetwater Expands and Enhances Music Store
Sweetwater has completed a total redesign and expansion of its Music Store, which opened on June 1st in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Now four times the original size and one of…
GC Pro Makes Appointments to Management Team
Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Center that focuses on the needs of professional users, announces two personnel appointments: Susan Starnes has been named senior vice…
IN THE HOTSEAT WITH: Lee Anderton, Andertons
Guildford-based retailer, Andertons is one of the UK’s most highly-regarded MI stores, indeed it is the current holder of the MIA’s best large retailer award. We put eponymous boss, Mongolian…
MI Brands Provide Experience For Grand Prize Winner Of “Win Greg Koch” Sweepstakes
Sponsored by Fishman, Premier Guitar, and Hal Leonard, the “Win Greg Koch” Sweepstakes received over 15,000 entries in eleven weeks. Grand Prize-winner Mark Mizhrai from Los Angeles was visited at home…
COMMENT: We’re looking good
Like someone who has come out the other side of a messy divorce, I get the sense that UK MI retail is starting to feel good about itself again and…
Huge expansion for UK retailer
Long-established Newcastle retailer JG Windows is currently undergoing a huge expansion which it says will make it one of the UK’s destination music stores and possibly the country’s largest. The…
New TC VoiceLive processor
TC Helicon has introduced a new version of its VoiceLive 3 guitar and voice processor in the form of VoiceLive 3 Extreme. VL3X has four times the built-in memory for…
Why your store needs to be on the move
It was nice to read something about Guitar Center recently that didn’t focus on its debt problems for a change. And it is something that affects all retailers in the…
More new UK retail
Amid the closure of some long-established music stores in the UK, there are still new stores opening. Sleepy Midsomer Norton in Somerset has a new store in the form of…
Sterling Ball on why strings refuse to bend
Interesting interview in Forbes with Ernie Ball’s Sterling Ball on how string sales are bucking industry trends. “The pie isn’t going away,” he says. “It’s being redistributed.” Check out the full…
Got a spare $900K?
The acoustic guitar John Lennon played on many of The Beatles’ early hits is expected to fetch more than $900,000 (£600,000) when it goes up for auction in California this November. The…