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- Corporate Name:
- Ishibashi Music Corporation
- Date of Foundation:
- June, 1979
- Inauguration of Business:
- June, 1938
- Capital Fund:
- 3 hundred million yen (approximately 301 million USD)
- President (CEO):
- Kiyokazu Ishibashi
- Employee number:
- 361 (August, 2008)
- Sales Amount:
- 11,406,000,000 JPY (1.16 hundred million USD) (End of the fiscal year, 2008)
Business Content:
- Retail sales of musical instruments and music related products
[Categories]
Electric and acoustic guitars, Drum Kits, Synthesizers, Digital Pianos, Wind and Brass instruments, DJ gears, Professional Audio equipments, Recordings, Sound booths, Software, Music scores, books, Manuals and many other items related to music!
- Merchandise development of private brand products
(Development plan, manufacturing, wholesale trade and retail sales of new instruments or related products)
- Online Sales (Mail-order)
- Operation of (Yamaha) Music Schools
- Retail sales of second hand (used) instruments
- Imports of musical instruments and related products
(Imports of overseas brand musical instruments and related products, Purchasing vintage and second hand instruments at a particular location, Developmental Import of private brand instruments from oversea subcontract factories)
Ishibashi Music Corp is an exclusive agent/importer and seller of the following overseas brand…
[Exclusive Agent]
- AXL Musical Instruments Co. Ltd. Corp [AXL/Recording King] (USA)
- (Categories: Amplifiers and Acoustic guitars)
- COR-TEK CORPORATION (SOUTH KOREA)
- Categories: Electric guitars and basses, Acoustic guitars)
- Grand Reward Education and Entertainment Co., Ltd. [FARIDA] (CHINA)
- Categories: Electric guitars and basses, Acoustic guitars)
- Stick Enterprises, Inc. (USA)
- Category: Stick instruments)
- Guitarras Almansa, S.A. (Spain)
- Category: Classic guitars)
- Galli Musical Strings (Italy)
- Category: Strings for electric/acoustic guitars and basses)
- Guitares Maurice Dupont (France)
- Category: Selmer-Maccaferri style guitars)
- Status Graphite (UK)
- Category: Electric bass guitars)
- Adler Guitars (USA)
- Category: Electric bass guitars with more than 5 or 6 strings)
- Caldwell Bennett Inc. (USA)
- Category: Musical Instrument Cables etc)
- Conklin Guitars and Basses (USA)
- Category: Electric guitars and basses with more than 5 or 6 strings)
- Curt Mangan Strings (USA)
- Category: Strings for electric guitars and basses)
- E.R.B. Dugain Pick (France)
- Category: Guitar Picks)
- Evidence Audio (USA)
- Category: Musical Instrument Cables etc)
- Knucklehead Music, LC (USA)
- Category: Strings for electric guitars and basses)
- Kenneth Lawrence Guitars (USA)
- Category: Electric bass guitars with more than 5 or 6 strings)
- Mooradian Cover Company (USA)
- Category: Gig bags for string instruments)
- Wegen Picks (Belgium)
- Category: Guitar picks)
- U.S. Music Corp [Washburn] (USA)
- Categories: Electric guitars, basses and acoustic guitars)
Partner Companies
Yamaha Corporation
Roland Corporation
Yamano Music Co., Ltd
Gibson Guitar Corporation Japan
Kanda Shokai Corporation
KORG INC.
Banking Relationship
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
SHOKO CHUKIN BANK
Chiba Bank
Tokyo Tomin Bank
Corporate History
| 1938 | June | Ishibashi begin operation as a small shop handling musical instruments in Suruga-dai, Kanda, Chiyoda-ku. |
| 1950 | | Ishibashi changes its name as “Ishibashi Music” |
| 1953 | January | With a capital fund of 300 thousand yen, “Ishibashi Music S/A” is established. |
| 1973 | March | With a capital 10 million yen, “Ishibashi Music S/A” reorganize as “Ishibashi Music Corporation.” |
| April | “Rock Side” opens in Ochanomizu. Tokyo, which is specialized in digital musical instruments. |
| 1976 | April | “Shibuya” branch opens in Shibuya Koen St. |
| 1979 | February | “Keyboard Mart” branch opens in Ochanomizu |
| 1981 | February | “Shinjuku” branch opens near Isetan Department Building in Shinjuku St. |
| 1983 | June | Add capital stock to 40 million yen. |
| 1986 | April | “Ikebukuro” branch opens in Ikebukuro Sunshine Street. |
| 1988 | January | “Yokohama” branch opens in Kanagawa prefecture. |
| June | Add capital stock to 1 hundred million yen. |
| 1989 | November | “Shinsaibashi” branch opens in Osaka prefecture. |
| 1991 | October | “Shinsaibashi” branch re-opens in Shinsaibashi Parco department building. |
| 1994 | March | “Ikebukuro” branch re-opens in Ikebukuro P’Parco department building. |
| 1995 | July | “Shibuya” branch re-opens in Capri Building. |
| 1996 | September | Ishibashi Web Shop opens. |
| 1997 | December | “Kawagoe” branch opens in Saitama prefecture. |
| 1998 | October | “Tsudanuma” branch opens in Chiba prefecture. |
| 1999 | March | “Machida” branch opens in Machida City, Tokyo. |
| 2000 | April | Add capital fund to 125 million yen. |
| October | “Kobe Sannomiya” branch opens in Hyogo prefecture. |
| November | “Nagoya Sakae” branch opens in Aichi prefecture. |
| 2001 | November | “Ochanomizu Book Side” branch reopens and “*1 Kaitori Center” opens in Ochanomizu.
*1 Kaitori Center: A place where we buy used (second hand) instruments from our customers. |
| 2003 | June | “Yokohama” branch reopens with floor space expanded. |
| 2004 | November | “Shibuya” branch reopens in Shibuya BEAM building with floor space expanded. |
| 2005 | April | “Nagoya Sakae” branch reopens in Skyle department store building. “Lesson” (A Music School for
Grown-ups) begin a series of musical instrument lessons. |
| October | “Umeda” branch opens in Nu Chayamachi department building of Osaka. |
| 2007 | March | “Kawagoe” branch opens inside Kawagoe Modi department store building with floor space expanded. “Lesson” begins series of musical instrument lessons for grown-ups at the same time. |
| September | “Tachikawa” branch opens in Tokyo. |
| October | “Machida” branch reopens inside Machida Jorna department store building. |
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