Plant
owned factory
Corona, CA, USA[1]. Built for 2 brands on record.
Fender headquarters plant; also hosts the Gretsch Custom Shop (2004-). Fender operation start year not in the research report. Geolocated 2026-10-15: 301 Cessna Circle, Corona (Fender Visitor Center address per Premier Guitar); Nominatim building match (postcode 92878 vs source 92880); claim C424.
More: every plant in the USA, the Guild lineage, the Gretsch lineage.
The point marks Corona, CA, USA at city level. It shows the town, not the factory gate. Recorded place[1].
Every headstock this plant has built for, on record. A contract plant can sit behind several brands at once.
The operator is not always the brand owner. Follow a company to see every plant it ran.
| Years | Operator | Source |
|---|---|---|
| undated | Fender Musical Instruments Corporation | unverified[2] |
| Years | Brand | Line | Role | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001–2004 | Guild | Guild USA | full build | secondary[2] |
| 2004–now | Gretsch | Gretsch Custom Shop | full build | primary[3, 4] |
The plant stays the same across these rows; the company behind the name does not.
| Years | Line | Owner | Parent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001–2004[5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 2] | Guild USA | Fender Musical Instruments Corporation | — |
| 2004–now[13, 14, 15, 16, 3, 17, 4] | Gretsch Custom Shop | Fender Musical Instruments Corporation | Fred Gretsch Enterprises, Ltd. (Fred W. and Dinah Gretsch) |
No supply records for this plant yet.
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.