Ibanez vs Squier: shared owners and factories

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Ibanez vs Squier

Ibanez and Squier share 2 plants and 0 companies on record. FujiGen built for both at the same time.

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 Ibanez and Squier have in common, from the records.

	Ibanez	Squier
Founded	1935^{no source}	1890^{[1, 2]}
Eras on record	8, from 1935	12, from 1982
Owners	3	3
Plants	9	8
Countries built in	Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, China and USA	Japan, South Korea, China and Indonesia

Ibanez

Squier

Founded

1935^{no source}

1890^{[1, 2]}

Eras on record

8, from 1935

12, from 1982

Owners

Plants

Countries built in

Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, China and USA

Japan, South Korea, China and Indonesia

Plants that built both

Plant	Ibanez	Squier	Both at once
FujiGen Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan^[3]	Ibanez Japan (FujiGen: J Custom, Prestige) 1969–now^[4]	Squier Japan (JV Series) 1982–1985^{[5, 6, 7]}	1982–1985
PT Cort Indonesia, Ngoro Ngoro, Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia^[8]	Ibanez Indonesia Standard year unknown^[9]	Squier Indonesia 1998–now^{[10, 11]}	never

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.