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Our Business

Our Customers

Our Customer Base

Gear4music’s customer base is made up of private individuals (96%+), from beginners and parents buying instruments and equipment for their children, through to professional musicians. The Group supplies schools, other educational establishments and a small number of trade accounts.

>2.2m

Registered users

1.03m

Active customers

0.84m

New customers in FY26

FY25: 0.72m

0.2m

Customers returned to place at least one follow-up order

FY25: 0.17m

Customer engagement

Effective communication with our customers is central to understanding their needs and wants and developing our customer proposition. We monitor and respond to Trustpilot reviews and look to learn from things that didn’t meet the customer’s expectations.

We invest significant resource in generating high quality engaging content, in terms of product descriptions, and studio quality photographic and video content.

Improving customer experience is a key objective when designing and implementing software development projects.

We are profitable from the first transaction and maintain an appropriate cost of customer acquisition. We report on these metrics in our investor presentations, which are available here.

Customer Profiles

Active Customers

FY26
1,028,719
FY25
846,230
FY24
798,561
FY23
864,504
FY22
921,223

New Customers

FY26
839,724
FY25
715,770
FY24
673,812
FY23
738,102
FY22
793,291

Repeat Customers

FY26
189,834
FY25
168,262
FY24
171,593
FY23
162,596
FY22
174,221