In 2010, Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024) controlled the Epiphone name. Its 5 lines on record were built at Japan special-model builder (Epiphone; FujiGen named generically), PT Cort Indonesia, Ngoro, Other Korean contractors (Epiphone; unverified), FujiGen, Terada Gakki, Chinese contract factories for Epiphone (Daewon, Muse, Saein, Zaozhuang Saehan) and Gibson Qingdao (Japan, Indonesia, South Korea and China).[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
A Epiphone guitar from 2010 belongs to whichever era was running on its product line that year. An era is a stretch when the company that controlled the name and the plant that built the line both stayed the same. If you know the line, the table below tells you which version of Epiphone you have. The name dates from 1904[S355], 106 years before.
Nothing changed in 2010. Every era running that year carried on from an earlier year, so a Epiphone from 2010 is the same version as one from 2009.
Where Epiphone was built in 2010
Chinese contract factories for Epiphone (Daewon, Muse, Saein, Zaozhuang Saehan), Gibson Qingdao, PT Cort Indonesia, Ngoro, Japan special-model builder (Epiphone; FujiGen named generically), FujiGen, Terada Gakki and Other Korean contractors (Epiphone; unverified). See every brand each plant built for, and every plant in the same country:
Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.
In 2002, Epiphone began producing a range of higher quality instruments under the "Elite Series" moniker which were built by Terada and FujiGen in Japan.Epiphone in 2010: owners and plants