Yako (China; city unverified)

Name: Yako (China; city unverified)
Address: China

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

Prefix CY. Solid bodies from the 2000s; hollow bodies moved to China June-July 2021. Location null (country level only); centroid removed 2026-10-15.

More: every plant in China, the Gretsch lineage.

Where it is

No location is on record for this plant (China), 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	2000–now^{[1, 2]}

Production record

Years	Brand	Line	Role	Source
2000–now	Gretsch	Gretsch Electromatic	full build	community^{[1, 2]}

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
2000–2003^{[3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2]}	Gretsch Electromatic	Fred Gretsch Enterprises, Ltd. (Fred W. and Dinah Gretsch)	—
2003–now^{[3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2]}	Gretsch Electromatic	Fender Musical Instruments Corporation	Fred Gretsch Enterprises, Ltd. (Fred W. and Dinah Gretsch)

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
- "CY = China - Yako"Gretsch built here
2
gretsch-talk: threads/what year did electromatic production move from korea to china.218618graded community
- "transitioned to China between June and July of 2021"Gretsch built here
3
gretschguitars: support/historygraded primary
- "In 1984, Fred W. Gretsch… purchased Gretsch back"Era: Gretsch Electromatic, 2000–2003
- In late 2002 a deal was struck for Fender Musical Instruments Corp. to handle Gretsch Guitars manufacturing and distributionEra: Gretsch Electromatic, 2003–now
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, 2000–2003
- In 2002 Gretsch and Fender announced an alliance that granted Fender exclusive rights to develop, market, and distribute Gretsch guitars.Era: Gretsch Electromatic, 2003–now
5
Fred #4: Fred W. Gretsch – Leading The Return Of 'That Great Gretsch Sound.'graded primary