Record 1,057 Parcels Shipped In Twelve Hours By Online Music Retailer

Gear4Music is hitting all the right notes with its dynamic online store in the run-up to Christmas.
By: Docnet
 
Dec. 9, 2009 - PRLog -- Gear4Music, one of the UK’s largest online retailers of musical instruments passed a landmark in its company history on Monday. For the first time since it launched, it shipped over 1,000 orders in less than 12 hours (on average, about one every 41 seconds) through its web store, www.gear4music.com. This surge in orders reflects increasing consumer confidence in online retail and demonstrates how successful the most effective web sites can be.

Over the past two years, Gear4Music, who sell a wide range of musical instruments including electric guitars, orchestral instruments and drums has grown tremendously, more than doubling its annual turnover. From the end of 2007 to the present Gear4Music have increased sales from £4.4m to almost £10m per annum.

In addition to being one of the UK’s largest online musical instrument retailers, over the past year Gear4Music has sold and dispatched instruments to customers in countries all across Europe, including locations in Turkey, The Canary Islands, Estonia, Slovakia and Gibraltar. Gear4Music’s international reach has been growing steadily since it first launched in 2003 and continues to expand.

Gear4Music’s web site is designed and hosted by the Manchester-based full service e-commerce company Docnet, who also design and run web sites for winners of Drapers’ Independent Etailer of the Year 2009 Award, Sarah Coggles (www.coggles.com) and the UK distributor of award-winning Xen-Tan fake tan range, Skin Solutions Ltd (www.xen-tan.co.uk).

On passing this prestigious landmark, Gear4Music owner and Managing Director, Andrew Wass said, “Monday was a fantastic day for Gear4Music, and the signs are just as good for the rest of December. Christmas is always a very busy time of year for us - but the past few days have been exceptional. It is thanks to our innovative and highly successful web site that we’re able to ship as many instruments as we have.”

Managing Director of Docnet, Chris Maule added, “We are very pleased to see Gear4Music passing this milestone and are happy to have helped underpin their success. From the first parcel Gear4Music ever shipped to over 1,000 in a single day, it has been a pleasure to work with Andrew and his team. In turn, my team are 100% behind Gear4Music in helping them to sell their excellent product range online and we have exciting plans to help empower their future growth.”

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Notes for Editors:

About Gear4Music:

Gear4Music’s mission is simple: to make purchasing and owning musical instruments and equipment easy for everyone by providing great prices and excellent service.

Founded and launched by Red Submarine Ltd in 2003, Gear4Music stocks over 6,500 musical instruments from over 300 internationally recognised manufacturers, as well as selling their own range of self-branded stock. The web site boasts over 140,000 registered customers who are able to book their own delivery date and arrange to receive email or SMS text updates on the progress of their orders.

Gear4Music also have a large showroom and exhibition centre based on the outskirts of York where customers can try the stock for themselves.

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Docnet is a full-service e-commerce provider. Based in Manchester UK, Docnet’s services include e-commerce, email marketing, customer relationship management (CRM), pay-per-click (PPC) and search engine optimisation (SEO) for SMEs and larger organisations.

Docnet believe in a service-led approach to e-commerce and online marketing, helping clients create workable strategies for online success and providing the tools and advice to achieve it. Success stories of the past include Gear4Music, Sarah Coggles (winners of Drapers’ Independent Etailer of the Year Award 2009), Waterstones, BAA and ARK Clothing.
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