Hohner — Creating Excellent Musical Instruments For 150 Years [ Musikmesse 2007 ]

28 March 2007 — Since Mr. Matthias Hohner established the Company 150 years ago, Matth. Hohner AG has always been more than just a manufacturer of musical instruments in Trossingen. The Company has a long history as a promoter, an educator, and an innovator on the music scene worldwide, which corresponds to Hohner’s corporate vision to provide people the affordable instruments to express their emotions through music which offers people the joyful experience of making music of their own. It is especially important in the hectic world today.

Today, the Hohner Group consists of Matth. Hohner AG, the holding, as the parent company, with the following subsidiaries — Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG and Sonor GmbH & Co. KG in Germany; Hohner SA in France; Hohner, Inc. in the USA; Hohner-Sonor AG in Switzerland; Hohner Pisek in Czech Republic, as well as two joint-venture companies: the world-famous Hohner Conservatory in Trossingen and Hohner-Lansheng, Ltd. in Shanghai, China.

Traditionally, harmonicas, accordions, recorders and melodicas, as well as Sonor drums, are still the main production items in Germany. However, as the founder Matthias Hohner said himself, “the world is my field”, and today the company reports proudly that its excellent products are not only sold worldwide, but are also produced worldwide. As a successfully globalized enterprise, Hohner has a responsibility to pursue every opportunity to obtain the best resources from around the world in order to ensure that the customers get the best possible value from the company. In order to achieve this goal, the company has further strengthened the core competences at its German bases, Trossingen (Hohner) and Aue (Sonor). It designs and develops all its products in Germany, in order to guarantee that no matter where a product is manufactured, as long as it bears the Hohner brand, it is definitely imbued with the spirit of German excellence.