E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems.
Beatport is an American electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle. The company is based in Denver, Los Angeles, and Berlin. Beatport is oriented primarily towards DJs, selling full songs as well as resources that can be used for remixes.
Archambault, is the largest music retailer in the province of Quebec, Canada, as well as a major retailer of books, DVDs, periodicals, musical instruments, sheet music, games, toys and gift ideas. Its e-commerce site, www.archambault.ca, is the largest French-language retail site in North America. Archambault currently operates 14 stores in Quebec.
YesAsia is an online retail company founded in 1998 that sells Asian entertainment products worldwide. After initially focusing on CD and video retailing, it has expanded into other entertainment and hobby products such as manga, video games and consoles, electronics and toys.
Blue Nile is an online jewelry retailer founded in 1999. It is based in Seattle, Washington. As of February 2017, it is a subsidiary of Bain Capital.
Bizrate Insights Inc., doing business as Bizrate Insights, is a market research company, providing consumer ratings information to over 6,000 retailers and publishers across the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Canada. Bizrate Insights is a Meredith Corporation company based in Los Angeles, CA.
Moosejaw.com is an online and brick and mortar retailer specializing in outdoor recreation apparel and gear for snowboarding, rock climbing, hiking, and camping. The company was founded in 1992 by Robert Wolfe and David Jaffe, two longtime friends who chose to sell camping equipment instead of becoming wilderness guides. Moosejaw is known for its nonsensical marketing called "Moosejaw Madness".
Music & Arts is a music retailer founded in 1952, specializing in band and orchestra instrument sales and rentals, guitars, keyboards, sheet music and books, musical accessories, repairs and private music lessons. In 2005, Music & Arts Center was acquired by Guitar Center, Inc. At the time of the purchase, Music & Arts Center had 60 retail locations, and 7 educational support centers throughout the mid-Atlantic and Southeast. The company has now grown to include over 150 retail locations, and over 100 affiliate locations.
Elderly Instruments is a musical instrument retailer in Lansing, Michigan, United States, with a reputation as a "megastore", a repair shop and a locus for folk music including bluegrass and "twang". Specializing in fretted instruments, including acoustic and electric guitars, banjos, mandolins, and ukuleles, Elderly maintains a selection of odd or rare instruments. Elderly is known as a premier repair shop for fretted instruments, as one of the larger vintage instrument dealers in the United States, and as a major dealer of Martin guitars in particular.
Sweetwater is the largest online retailer of musical instruments and pro audio equipment in the United States. Sweetwater is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Design Toscano, Inc. is an American-based, privately held, multinational mail order catalog and electronic commerce company, founded by Michael Stopka in 1990. It is currently headquartered in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. It manufactures and sells statuary, historical reproductions, furniture and home decor. Its products were also featured in the Skymall catalog.
Cascio Interstate Music is one of the largest musical instrument retailers in the U.S., with its headquarters and retail outlet in New Berlin, Wisconsin and its distribution center located in nearby Waukesha, Wisconsin. Cascio Interstate Music owns and operates Internet retail operations through the InterstateMusic.com e-commerce domain. For nearly 70 years, Cascio Interstate Music has been a key national player in the music products industry through its multi-channel retail, wholesale, and manufacturing operations.
Niche Retail is an eCommerce company based in Sylvan Lake, Michigan. Since its inception in 2001, Niche Retail has been specializing in Direct-to-consumer and Business-to-business online sales channels. Niche Retail's tagline is "Everything but the brand".
Power Equipment Direct (PED) is an online retail company based in Bolingbrook, Illinois, USA. The company began in 2002 selling pressure washers, and now operates ten niche Web sites selling different types of outdoor power equipment, including air compressors, chainsaws, electric generators, log splitters, lawn mowers, snow blowers, sump pumps, water pumps and accessories.
Vulcan Tire is an American online retailer. Their merchandise includes tires, tire chains, TPMS, tire accessories and cargo control devices. Vulcan Tire was founded in 1997 and is based in Sandy, Utah.
Menchey Music Service, Inc. is a family-owned chain of seven musical instrument stores in Pennsylvania and Maryland. From its store locations and through direct arrangements with schools, Menchey Music sells and rents musical instruments and accessories, offers music lessons, and provides musical instrument repair.
AmericanMuscle is an American online retailer of automotive parts and accessories for Ford Mustang and Ford F-150 model automobiles. Founded by Steve Voudouris, it is one of the flagship brands and websites of Turn5 Inc., a holding company that owns and operates a group of specialty after market parts companies.
Andertons Music Co. is a musical instrument retailer based in Guildford, Surrey, UK. Its online store is one of the United Kingdom's top 150 e-commerce sites, with sales approaching $40 million per year. It is widely known among guitarists for video demonstrations by owner Lee "The Captain" Anderton and Rob "Chappers" Chapman.
St. Louis Music (SLM) is a manufacturer and distributor of musical instruments, accessories, and equipment. SLM distributes products from over 260 music products industry brands, and is the corporate owner of Austin Guitars, Knilling String Instruments, Hamilton Stands, SIGMA Guitars USA, Dixon Drums, and Zonda Instruments & Reeds. Additionally, SLM is the exclusive worldwide distributor and producer of Alvarez and Alvarez-Yairi guitars.
