MUSICIAN'S FRIEND WEBSITE CONTINUES TO WIN TOP HONORS— MusiciansFriend.com wins first place recognition in the 25th Annual MCM Awards —
— Site also gains first place recognition from Internet Retailer —
Musician’s Friend, Inc., the largest direct response retailer of musical instruments and gear in the U.S., and a division of Guitar Center since 1999, is proud to be recognized once again with top honors by two prominent online retailer authorities.
First, the site was acknowledged during the 25th Annual Multichannel Merchant Awards held in Orlando, Florida, where MusiciansFriend.com earned Website of the Year honors, receiving the highest score of all websites judged in all categories. Additionally, the MusiciansFriend.com site won a Gold Award in the Computer and High-Tech Equipment and Software category. This marks the fourth year in a row that Musician’s Friend has been a finalist, having also won Gold awards in the Computer and High Tech Equipment category in 2007 and 2009 and a Silver award in 2008. As in past years, Musician’s Friend was in good company – other Gold and Silver winners included Crutchfield, L.L. Bean, Harry & David and The Orvis Co. – all significant leaders in direct marketing.
Additionally, Musician’s Friend has also taken the number-one position, based on sales, in Internet Retailer magazine’s annual Top 100 Web Retailers List in the Specialty/Non-Apparel category for 2010. Among all domestic web retailers, Musician’s Friend ranks #38 in annual sales, maintaining the company’s consistent top-40 streak.
Craig Johnson, Musician’s Friend CEO, stated, “I’m delighted to report our most recent set of accolades from the Multichannel Merchant Awards and Internet Retailer magazine. These outstanding honors from our industry peers are the collective effort of every member of the Musician’s Friend team and I personally thank and congratulate them. We thank these two organizations for recognizing our hard work, and look forward to continuing to provide our customers with the best e-commerce and catalog shopping experience possible.”
About Musician’s Friend
Founded in 1983, Musician’s Friend, Inc., is the largest direct response retailer of musical instruments in the U.S. Through marketing and merchandising music products in their catalog and on their web site, www.MusiciansFriend.com, the company offers customers a complete selection of guitars, basses, amps and effect pedals, DJ equipment, woodwind, brass and stringed band and orchestra instruments, live sound reinforcement, recording equipment, keyboards, drums and percussion equipment, and associated musical accessories. In addition to an assortment of more than 80,000 unique products for sale, the Musician’s Friend website offers informative musicians’ resources, including in-depth buying guides, tech tips, hands-on gear reviews, articles from highly respected music industry professionals, interviews with well-known artists, and 860,000 customer-written product reviews and ratings.With their corporate office based in Medford, Oregon, Musician’s Friend also maintains a contact center/customer service operation based in Draper, Utah (a suburb of Salt Lake City), a state-of-the-art distribution center in Kansas City, Missouri, and The Woodwind & Brasswind, a band and orchestra division and retail store in South Bend, Indiana.
Musician’s Friend is a wholly owned subsidiary of Guitar Center, Inc., the nation’s leading retailer of guitars, amplifiers, percussion instruments, keyboards, live-sound/DJ and recording equipment. Other brand or product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
Musician’s Friend can be contacted at 1-800-776-5173 or by visiting www.MusiciansFriend.com.
About Internet Retailer
Published by Chicago-based Vertical Web Media LLC, Internet Retailer is a monthly national business magazine that is at the core of an e-commerce conference and four directories that serve the retailing community. The Internet Retailer family of products focuses on the Internet’s vital role in a wide array of retailing activities, including web merchandising, supply chain management and multichannel integration. Its 42,500 subscribers are senior executives primarily from retail chains, independent stores, catalogs, virtual merchants and brand name manufacturers. Internet Retailer’s circulation represents the largest multichannel readership base of any retailing magazine. The magazine also publishes the most widely read e-mail newsletter in retailing, IRNewsLink, which is distributed four times a week to 30,000+ opt-in subscribers, operates the largest retailing information website, InternetRetailer.com, sponsors the largest conference in the e-retailing industry and publishes an annual ranking of the 500 largest web sites.About the MCM Awards
The MCM Awards are the industry’s top honors for b-to-b and b-to-c multichannel marketers. Formerly the Annual Catalog Awards and the I.Merchant Awards, the MCM Awards continue the tradition of recognizing superior print catalogs and websites from around the globe. Gold and Silver awards are given out for quality in both print and web. Cross Channel entries are eligible for Business-to-Business Multichannel Merchant of the Year and Consumer Multichannel Merchant of the Year honors.MEDIA CONTACT: Robert Clyne, Clyne Media, at (615) 662-1616
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