Peerless (Korea; city unverified)

Name: Peerless (Korea; city unverified)
Address: South Korea

South Korea (location known to country level only)^{no source}. Built for 1 brand on record.

Prefix KP; end per forum. guitarinsite's Epiphone page (S057) puts Peerless's factory in Gimhae, headquarters in Busan; not geocoded. Location null (country level only); centroid removed 2026-10-15.

More: every plant in South Korea, the Gretsch lineage.

Where it is

No location is on record for this plant (South Korea), so it is not mapped.

Brands built here

Every headstock this plant has built for, on record. A contract plant can sit behind several brands at once.

Brand	Lines	Years
Gretsch	Gretsch Electromatic, Gretsch Synchromatic/Historic	1999–2008^{[1, 2]}

Who ran the plant

The operator is not always the brand owner. Follow a company to see every plant it ran.

Years	Operator	Source
1999–2008	Peerless (Korea)	community^{[1, 2]}

Production record

Years	Brand	Line	Role	Source
1999–2008	Gretsch	Gretsch Electromatic	full build	community^{[1, 2]}
1999–2008	Gretsch	Gretsch Synchromatic/Historic	full build	community^[1]

Owners while this plant was building

The plant stays the same across these rows; the company behind the name does not.

Years	Line	Owner	Parent
1999–2003^{[3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2]}	Gretsch Electromatic	Fred Gretsch Enterprises, Ltd. (Fred W. and Dinah Gretsch)	—
1999–2003^{[3, 4, 5, 6, 1]}	Gretsch Synchromatic/Historic	Fred Gretsch Enterprises, Ltd. (Fred W. and Dinah Gretsch)	—
2003–2008^{[3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2]}	Gretsch Electromatic	Fender Musical Instruments Corporation	Fred Gretsch Enterprises, Ltd. (Fred W. and Dinah Gretsch)
2003–2008^{[3, 4, 5]}

Where its materials come from

No supply records for this plant yet.

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
reverb: news/how to date a gretsch guitargraded secondary
- "Starting in 1999… budget-level Electromatic… in Korea"Gretsch built here
2
gretsch-talk: threads/gretsch korean plants.105525graded community
- "KP = Korea - Peerless"Gretsch built here
3
gretschguitars: support/historygraded primary
- "In 1984, Fred W. Gretsch… purchased Gretsch back"Era: Gretsch Electromatic, 1999–2003
- In late 2002 a deal was struck for Fender Musical Instruments Corp. to handle Gretsch Guitars manufacturing and distributionEra: Gretsch Electromatic, 2003–2008
4
The Story of Gretschgraded secondary
- In 1984 Fred made good on his promise when he and his wife Dinah bought the Gretsch Company back from Baldwin.Era: Gretsch Electromatic, 1999–2003
- In 2002 Gretsch and Fender announced an alliance that granted Fender exclusive rights to develop, market, and distribute Gretsch guitars.Era: Gretsch Electromatic, 2003–2008
5
Fred #4: Fred W. Gretsch – Leading The Return Of 'That Great Gretsch Sound.'graded primary
- His offer was accepted, and in November 1984, Fred was able to fulfill his 17-year dream of buying back the Gretsch Company.