The Ugly Truth of Cort Guitars. Cor-tek Exposed.

The Ugly Truth of Cort Guitars ( Cor-tek corporation ) . Hello everyone in this video We talked about the abruptly closure of the Cort Guitars factories in South Korea and How this changed the lives of many workers in a Lawsuit that lasted over 13 years.

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Cort International builds for so many companies.
Few folks realize that other than a very very tiny custom shop Ibanez doesn't even own any factory. Hoshino Gakki owns the name and contracts Ibanez guitars to be built by OEM manufacturers.
Cort builds many Ibanez guitars.
Fender Squier lines are often built by Cort.
Etc...etc...
Those Dillions and ESP ltds and some Mitchells and many Harley Bentons are built by Inyen Vina in Vietnam. ESP/ltd does not own a factory in Vietnam.
Heck Gibson tries to fool us into believing they OWN a factory in China.
Lol...they have clever lawyers but in-fact if you read closely you read ," Gibson opened a new factory in China"
I can " open" a new restaurant without actually owning the real estate. Tricky.
Quingdoa is NOT owned by Gibson.
A quick Google tells us that no foreign entity can own land in China, excepting a single family residence and only with meeting a lot of requirements.
Before PRS contracted SE series axes to Cort, they contracted them to Samick International to be built in Korea.
The whole biz is a bit deceitful.
When a guitar company says " our factory" they rarely mean that they own the land or buildings. They can own some of the machines and materials.
40+ years in the biz and at some time I have been an authorized repair center for numerous brands, SLM, C. Bruno, Hoshino G. etc. Very few actually own their own factory.

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