Long & McQuade

Long & McQuade
Musical Instruments
www.long-mcquade.com
I N N O V A T I O N
As much as the business has evolved, however, many of its
successful strategies can still be traced back to the earliest
stores. A program used to rent instruments is based on
friends who asked to borrow products, while the in-house
financing program evolved from casual agreements to spread
out payments. Programs like these were certainly unusual,
especially when early music retailers operating much like
pawn shops where all sales were final, Long adds. “Rock
and roll stores used to be thrown together. ”
While some manufacturers have moved
assembly lines to offshore locales, Yorkville
Sound also remains one of the only Canadian
makers of guitar amplifiers. “We do everything
there,” Long notes with pride, referring to
the maker of professional sound equipment.
“We design the product, the engineering is
done there. The quality control is done there.
We’re really vertically integrated.”
largest retail markets in the nation. Eleven of the music
retailer’s stores are located in this region, and a new full
line store will soon be added to the mix at the intersection
of Notion Road and Highway 2.
Think of this as the place where music begins.
And whenever any of the related products need to be
shipped, the Pickering warehouse offers quick access to
Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe, which remains one of the
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