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Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Amit Sharma

“I kept seeing outdated business models that didn’t make sense in today’s social media-driven world”: The unstoppable rise of signature guitar companies, as explained by Ola Englund

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Rewind two-and-a-half decades, and it was perfectly normal to find signature products made in collaboration with some of the world’s biggest artists.

You could walk into any high-end music store and stumble upon Gibson Les Pauls customized by the likes of Slash, Joe Perry and Gary Moore, or Fender Strats bearing the names of Eric Clapton, Yngwie Malmsteen and Jeff Beck.

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