These excellent products are exported around the world-55% of production output goes to the USA, and another 20% is exported to Japan. Here, 900 employees, including a highly skilled production staff, handcraft 13,000 instruments monthly. Grand Reward Education & Entertainment (GREE) was established in October 1995 serves more than ten OEM customers, as well as promoting its own brand name: Farida. Thanks to Ralf (SFIV1967) over on LetsTalkGuild for this information about the GREE factory! The GREE factory is where Guild GAD models were produced and where the Westerly Collection models are manufactured
If you have more information about the SPG plant, especially if you have pictures, I’d love to include that information here and will of course give you credit for anything you provide. There are a few guitar factories in Korea which no doubt leads to the confusion, but the Guild Newark Street guitars are made in SPG. Sadly, this is not one of those times.įender bought Guild in 1995 but didn’t move the factory out of Westerly until 2001. That’s how the creative part of my brain works. Here’s an article about them that I found interesting.Īfter posting these pics on the Let’s Talk Guild forum, someone asked, “I wonder what the Hoboken Site is like today?”, and the rest of my day was spent researching Guild factories for this article. The current occupant of this part of the building is the Jonnycake Center food pantry and thrift store. Just read my other articles and see for yourself. I commented to my daughter who took the picture of me in front of the building, that the majority of the guitars I’ve owned in my life came from this very building. This is the longest tenure in Guild’s history and for me, this is and will always be the home of Guild. The Westerly plant started production after Guild was sold to the Avnet Corporation in 1966 and stayed in this location until 2001, which makes the Westerly Guild factory home to the brand for 35 years.
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