Guitar Center CEO Gabe Dalporto already faces the challenge of steering the guitar gear retailer through uncertain waters in the face of a digital market boom, but he’s also faced with the ...

T he news over the past several years has not been good for Guitar Center, Inc. (GCI), the music retail giant that’s still straining under more than $1 billion in debt, the legacy of an ill ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD -- Guitar Center, a chain that bills itself as the world's largest instrument retailer, is opening a new 12,000-square-foot store and lesson facility at 935 Riverdale St.

Instruments retailer Guitar Center just spent $5 million renovating its flagship store and has a plan to retake its place in music. Guitar Center, Once on a Precipice, Is Now Opening New Stores ...

Credit: Guitar Center. Guitar Center CEO Gabe Dalporto has spoken at length in the past about how he’s hoping to safeguard the store’s future by improving its stock of electric guitar gear and ...

Guitar Center CEO Gabe Dalporto is on a mission to raise store standards – and says he’s not above scrubbing restrooms Matt Owen Mon, June 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM UTC ...

Guitar Center has been able to expand in part because of weak competition. The country’s next biggest music-store chain, privately held Sam Ash, has 40 stores concentrated on the East Coast.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Danziger reports on retail, focused on the luxury consumer market. The 300-store Guitar Center chain recently appeared on ...

Guitar Center Inc., which opened its first store in Hollywood almost half a century ago and expanded to become the largest purveyor of musical instruments in the U.S., is being acquired for $2.1 ...

Construction is underway at 1615 38th St. S. on a new Guitar Center store on the campus of the West Acres Shopping Center. The store, seen Saturday, March 26, 2022, ...

Guitar Center announced today that it is not only re-opening its Harahan location (1000 S. Clearview Pkwy) this weekend, but will open its doors with a drastically expanded roster of in-house services ...