Join us in celebrating Samick's 50th Anniversary in 2008
Founded in 1958 in war-torn and impoverished South Korea, Samick has grown from a small storefront producing just a few upright pianos per week to one of the leading manufacturers of upright and grand pianos in the world.
In 1964 Samick became the first Korean company to export pianos and by the early 1970s, the company had become a large-scale manufacturer
with over 3,000 employees. In the years following, Samick focused on global expansion. In 1978 they opened a branch office in Los Angeles,
California, followed by establishment of an office in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1980. Sales of Samick products in the United States grew
exponentially and Samick soon announced the development of their American subsidiary, Samick Music Corporation in 1982.
Samick has always been dedicated to developing new products and quality, starting in 1983 with a technical cooperation with Klaus Fenner,
a piano designer and technician from Germany. Fenner was renowned for designing the German Imperial Scale that continues to characterize
the pianos of leading international manufacturers. In 1990, Samick expanded its production capabilities with separate plants for uprights
and grands in three different countries. In the early 2000s, Samick established a technical
consultancy with German manufacturer Bechstein and invested in the Computer Numerical Control (CNC) system, a highly accurate routing machine
used to make such integral parts as soundboards and rims.
Samick today is ranked third in world piano sales. Despite its short history, it has grown from a small workshop manufacturing a little more
than a hundred pianos a year, into a network of modern and highly sophisticated manufacturing facilities producing more than 30,000 pianos
annually and exporting to the Asia-Pacific, European, American and other markets around the world.
|
