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zionstrat

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Good news is they list brand and music requirements...

Not as good = pivate equity and muti org consolidation...

Gibson needs to simplify and get customer focused but these 2 requirements are better fit for current Gibson model.

However, any movement is likely better than sitting still if they can generate data and use that data drive change...


https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/08/09/gibson-guitar-ceo-wanted-ad/

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I am going to submit my resume. The Gibson board will either think I have the biggest balls in the world and fly me in for an interview or think I am a lunatic and get a restraining order. If I were Gibson I would go with lunatic.
 
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Gibson needs to be bought out by a company who knows how to run a business, but who understands Gibson's historical significance. I think that a company like Yamaha might work.
 
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Red_Label said:
Gibson needs to be bought out by a company who knows how to run a business, but who understands Gibson's historical significance. I think that a company like Yamaha might work.
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Do you think a Japanese company would keep production in the us for very long?
 
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Securb said:
Do you think a Japanese company would keep production in the us for very long?
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That's my only concern. I think that buyers of high-end Les Pauls want American made guitars. They're buying Americana... like guys who buy old Ford Mustangs, Corvettes, etc. Knowing your market is life and death in corporations. Henry doesn't know ****. Yamaha does, BUT...it's hard to take that nationalistic pride out of Japanese companies. So a willingness to keep Gibson an American company would be imperative to their success.
 
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Securb said:
Do you think a Japanese company would keep production in the us for very long?
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Absolutely...but they would send everything offshore except the last few screws that had to be tightened...then they could call it assembled in the USA....
 
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I'd do it but I'd rather go work for Paul and make good guitars.
 
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zionstrat said:
Good news is they list brand and music requirements...

Not as good = pivate equity and muti org consolidation...

Gibson needs to simplify and get customer focused but these 2 requirements are better fit for current Gibson model.

However, any movement is likely better than sitting still if they can generate data and use that data drive change...


https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/08/09/gibson-guitar-ceo-wanted-ad/

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I could run that Company & be successful but in no way want their problems on my back.
 
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You wouldn't HAVE to have music background to run the company - but you would have to have a "A" team of trusted individuals who were semi-musically inclined.

You can turn any company with the right balance of skills:

Financial - make money / spend less-reduce costs
Customer - Live by the voice of the customer / grow market share with right products and services
Process - Be effective and efficient; Quality, Cost, Timeliness, Quantity at proper levels for the customer / customer segments
People - Hire the right people for the right jobs and eliminate BS that prevents them from doing their best (Including your own ego)

The CEO needs to set the big direction and assemble the right team.

Henry - no direction, wrong direction, and Team Was spelled "Henry"
 
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And no one here will ever get a resume even in the pile to be considered....
 
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Aceman said:
And no one here will ever get a resume even in the pile to be considered....
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Yeah, I assumed one of the prerequisites was that you had to be the top result if they Google your name.
 
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Red_Label said:
Gibson needs to be bought out by a company who knows how to run a business, but who understands Gibson's historical significance. I think that a company like Yamaha might work.
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Yags certainly has resources and process knowledge to do this well and certainly can't write this option off.

As much as US would like to keep work in US, they can make a very good case for better quality/pricepoints and international market doesn't see any advantage to made in us.

However, there is a real downside... Yamaha is already the big fish... From a competitive perspective diversity is good for price and quality...

Fender is not in wonderful shape and it would be good to keep a bigger ecosystem.

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Has it occurred to anyone how many cars are being built in the United States by foreign brands? Japanese brands? I thought of that amidst all the talk about Japanese companies not wanting to build Gibsons in the U.S. I just wouldn’t be so sure.
 
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If Gibsons are made in Asia they will have no differentiation from Epiphone.
 
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Securb said:
Do you think a Japanese company would keep production in the us for very long?
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Granted, all of Line 6's stuff is made overseas, with the exception of the James Tyler Variac line. But that said, since Yamaha bought out Line 6, they have helped them out a great deal. They still have the same folks working at the Line 6 facility in California that were there before. And honestly, if it weren't for Yamaha, we wouldn't have the Helix.
 
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had a JTV-69...it started sounding like a moose with a bad case of indigestion...called Line 6 customer service and got zero help...I kept pestering them....Yamaha deal closed and suddenly the sent me a shipping label to return it for evaluation and repair...they replaced the main module, set up the guitar and shipped it back no charge...it work perfectly and I sold it immediately (fun to play with for a while but really not much of guitar....true story....I think Yamaha came in a step one was to pound customer service into the company...Yamaha knows how to run a successful business and build high quality products...but they never built anything as good as an EB MM Silhouette...:unitedsta
 
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Do you think a Japanese company would keep production in the us for very long?
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If it's Yamaha, they wouldn't even think in doing otherwise. All the brands that the company acquired in the last few years stayed exactly where they originally were. Cubase is still in Germany, Line6 is still in California, and AFAIK; they've never even been rumours of moving anything overseas.

Gibson QC dept. could certainly use some of the thousand-years-old japanese craftmanship work ethics in their assembly lines. I'm pretty sure they could learn a thing or two about motivating the artisans to get back to the optics of being proud of the work done, the workplace where they work, and the level of confidence and responsability given by their employers, which starts with being treated with the respect they deserve.

Don't forget Gibson won the "worst workplace" prize for three years in a row just after Henry took over. Thirty years after, as this statement attests, it still is:

Date: November 10th, 2017
I worked at Gibson Brands full-time for more than 10 years.

If you make it to the top, you'll be a part of a bonus structure that the rest of the company doesn't know about.

If you don't make it to the top, you'll be awarded with zero raises, no 401K match, constant fear and intimidation that stems from the owner, and so much bureaucracy that you'll beg to be killed. Nepotism is very real at this company. And the two children involved are not qualified. Your middle management will change monthly, because the few skilled people that Gibson acquires...all quit or will be fired. The owners do not allow their managers to help grow the company. I've never seen a company that is so top heavy, regarding decision making, etc... Horrible, horrible experience. Please don't waste your life working for these horrible, horrible people.

Advice to Management: Leave. Get out. You're not helping.
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/Peter
 
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mxaniac said:
If Gibsons are made in Asia they will have no differentiation from Epiphone.
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Of course they would. In order to be considered equals with Epiphone they would have to improve their quality considerably.
 
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If Ed Roman were still alive today he would make the perfect CEO of Gibson. He did briefly work for Gibson in the 1990's I think as a consultant.



;>)/
 
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