Gear4music is an online retailer of musical instruments, music equipment, and Audio-Visual (‘AV’) equipment. The Group operates from a Head Office in York with distribution centres in York, Bacup, Sweden, Germany, Ireland & Spain, and showrooms in York, Bacup, Sweden & Germany.
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Gear4music is the largest retailer of musical instruments and music equipment in the UK. Launched in 2003 by Executive Chair Andrew Wass, revenue has grown six-fold from £24m in FY15 to £147m in FY25. Gear4music sells Own-brand musical instruments and equipment alongside well-known premium brands including Yamaha, Roland and Fender, to customers ranging from beginners to musical enthusiasts and professionals. The Group has been selling into Europe since 2012 and internationally since 2017.
Gear4music continues to invest in developing its own bespoke e-commerce platform, with multilingual, multicurrency and fully designed websites localised to 19 countries, to rapidly expand the customer database, and build an increasing overseas presence.
The Group retails 63,300 ‘Stock-Keeping-Units’ (‘SKUs’) across all major musical instrument and equipment categories, sourced from 1,122 manufacturers.
