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Matt Parker

“Guitars were no longer the priority”: Fender had $100 million worth of retail sales canceled in 2022

Fender amps – the firm's CFO Matt Janopaul says the firm lost $100 million in orders in 2022

Fender’s CFO Matt Janopaul has revealed that in 2022 the electric guitar giant had to deal with almost $100 million worth of canceled orders. 

Most players know by now that one of the few upsides of the pandemic was a boom in guitar sales. Indeed, after some years on the wane, guitar sales returned to their highest figures since the ’60s Beatlemania boom. 

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