At a glance

Gear4music is an online retailer of musical instruments and music equipment, and since 2021, of Audio-Visual (‘AV’) equipment, including HiFi speakers and home cinema systems. Gear4music operates 21 websites in 15 languages and 9 currencies.

Gear4music is the largest retailer of musical instruments and music equipment in the UK. Launched in 2003 by Chief Executive Officer Andrew Wass, revenue has grown six-fold from £24m in FY15 to £144m in FY24.

The Group operates from a Head Office in York, Distribution Centres in York, Bacup, Sweden, Germany, Ireland & Spain, and showrooms in York, Sweden & Germany.

Gear4music sells own-brand musical instruments and music 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 the Rest of the World since 2017.

Gear4music continues to invest in developing its own bespoke e-commerce platform, with multilingual, multicurrency and fully responsive design websites localised to 19 countries, to rapidly expand the customer database, and build an increasing overseas presence.

The Group retails 63,000 ‘Stock-Keeping-Units’ (‘SKUs’) across all major musical instrument and equipment categories, sourced from 1,096 manufacturers, and range from £1 kazoos to digital pianos, drum kits and guitars costing thousands of pounds.