Fender vs Ovation

Fender and Ovation share 0 plants and 1 company on record.

Two names on two headstocks can come out of the same building. When they do, the difference between them is the badge, the spec and the price, not the factory. When they share an owner, one company decided what each name stood for. Here is everything Fender and Ovation have in common, from the records.

Side by side

	Fender	Ovation
Founded	1946^{[1, 2]}	1965^[3]
Eras on record	14, from 1946	8, from 1966
Owners	4	4
Plants	15	2
Countries built in	USA, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and China	USA, South Korea, China and Indonesia

Companies behind both

Company	With Fender	With Ovation
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation	owns 1985–now^{[4, 5, 2]} parent company 1985–2015^{[4, 5, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]}	owns 2007–2015^{[14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20]}

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Sources

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.

1
Fender ownership historygraded secondary
2
Fender Musical Instruments Company Historygraded secondary
3
Kaman Music Corporation (company history)graded secondary
- formed a new company called Ovation Instruments, Inc. to market the guitar.Ovation, founded
4
Fender Musical Instruments Corp, Form S-1/A (2012), accession 0001193125-12-298421graded primary
5
The End of the CBS Era: Inside the 1985 Fender Buyoutgraded community
6
Fender Japangraded community
7
Fender Japan history (Fachblatt article, 1987)graded secondary
8
Fender Japan: A Brief Guidegraded community
9
Fender Japan Historygraded community
10
Fender factoriesgraded community
11
Fender Custom Shopgraded community
12
re: korean squires (forum thread)graded community
13
35 years of Fender Mexico: a timelinegraded secondary
14
Fender to buy Kaman Music Corp.graded secondary
- "closing is set to happen by January 1, 2008"Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, owns, 2007–2015
15
Ovation sold to Drum Workshop (Jan 6, 2015)graded secondary
- "Yesterday, FMIC announced that KMC Music… has sold the Ovation guitar brand to Drum Workshop, Inc."Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, owns, 2007–2015
16
FMIC announces KMC Music sale of Ovation to DW (Jan 6, 2015); KMC sold to JAM Industries (Feb 12, 2015)graded secondary
- "FMIC announced that KMC Music… has sold the Ovation guitar brand to Drum Workshop, Inc."Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, owns, 2007–2015
17
Kaman Corporation Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2007graded primary
- We sold our Music segment on December 31, 2007 for $119.5 million to Fender and recorded a pre-tax gain of $18.1 million.Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, owns, 2007–2015
18
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation Announces Sale of KMC Music's Percussion Brands and Ovation Guitars to Drum Workshop, Inc.graded primary
- as well as the Ovation® guitar brand.Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, owns, 2007–2015
19
Fender Musical Instruments Corp. Form S-1 (2012)graded primary
- In December 2007 we acquired KMC, which was our largest acquisition to date.Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, owns, 2007–2015
20
Fender Musical Instruments Corp, Form S-1/A Amendment No. 5graded primary
- since the acquisition of Kaman Music Corporation (now known as KMC Musicorp), or KMC, in 2007Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, owns, 2007–2015

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