PR | Apr 20, 2011

New König & Meyer website

König & Meyer is online with a new website just in time to kick off the “Musikmesse”!
Come visit us at the same URL www.k-m.de and enjoy our modern, completely revised site in the firm’s new corporate design.
After six years, our old site has been replaced by a modern well-designed website with an easy to understand and user-friendly navigation for dealers, consumers and the press along with all important information, data and documents.

The "Product area" has a lot of detailed information, a shopping basket and product comparisons. The new site also includes a PDF catalogue for browsing.

The "Newsroom" contains all kinds of information about König & Meyer for consumers, traders and the press. Along with news & press releases, the site hosts a range of videos and pictures from, about or with König & Meyer. Keep up with all the latest news: subscribe to the latest news as RSS feed, email alert or newsletter.
For a good year now König & Meyer have been active in the "Social media" arena, also reflected on our website. The newsroom also houses channel content and users can mark the news and products they like, twitter and share with friends.

König & Meyer’s endorsers have their own space under “Bands & Artists” where each has an individual page. In addition to photos and brief information on the artist, endorser’s twitter and facebook feeds are integrated.

“Support & Downloads” provides information, such as guarantee conditions, and a direct contact forum. The new site increases support and personal contact in general.
“About König & Meyer” provides customers and consumers with all key data about the company, its effect on the environment, quality, career, service, and contract manufacture.
The trader area has been completely revamped and offers our dealers new features in a closed space.

The page can be viewed in German and in English. Additional languages are planned. We hope you all enjoy exploring the site and look forward to getting your feedback. Please use our social media channels or send an email to ej@k-m.de.

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PR | Mar 8, 2011

3 new iPad-holder

Before the musikmesse and prolight+sound 2011 begins in Frankfurt, we would like to present to you today our first new products. The iPad is becoming firmly established in the music business! In addition to digitalizing sheet music or lyrics, the iPad offers plenty of options, especially for recording. It features many different apps used by musicians ranging from instruments and tuners for synthesizers and harmonizers to multi-effect processors right up to a complete recording studio.
To make the iPad easier to handle, Ko?nig & Meyer has developed various iPad holders for these special music applications.
Because the iPad stand holder (No. 19710) can be screwed onto any 3/8" thread, it can be attached, for example, to all microphone stands. Using the special feature of the iPad holder (No. 19720), a clamp mounting, to fasten it to the tube, in any size from 7 to 30 mm in diameter.
The third version is the iPad wall holder (No. 19730), which makes it possible to mount and use the device without a stand. The holder can be attached to a wall by means of three mounting holes.
The iPad can be inserted very simply into anyone of the three black holders and switched easily from portrait to landscape position depending on the application in all the versions. Infinitely variable adjustment allowing tilting at any angle enables you to align the iPad stand holder and the iPad holder in any desired position.
All the holders feature the proven Ko?nig & Meyer material quality and workmanship - made in Germany.

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PR | Dec 1, 2010

A competition from König & Meyer: Stands for your music

Are you a musician? Do you play solo, in a duo or with a band; are you in a choir, church choir or an orchestra?!  Would 500 euro to spend on quality music accessories be useful? If you like the sound of that and want to enter our competition click on the Facebook link and simply upload a photo of yourself as musician or your band or your fellow musicians. Submit your name and a few words about yourself/yourselves and why you deserve to win or absolutely need to win! The deadline is 31.01.11. After that you and all visitors to our site have four weeks to vote for your favourite candidate. The three participants with the most votes win. There is a gift voucher worth 300 euro for the second place winner and 150 euro for the third place. The gift vouchers can be spent at König & Meyer. The winner of first place will be the happy recipient of 500 euro to spend on music accessories of their choice! Any König & Meyer product may be chosen! The winner will be notified via the Facebook fan page and the company website.
All musicians are welcome to enter. Simply clink on www.facebook.com/KoenigundMeyer

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PR | Apr 8, 2010

König & Meyer very satisfied with the exhibition results

This year’s musikmesse / prolight+sound exhibition closed recording a slight reduction in the overall number of exhibitors and visitors. A total of 2,340 companies from 128 countries exhibited their products and services at what is arguably the largest annual rendezvous for the music, sound and lighting sectors. With fifty companies fewer than last year and 110,000 visitors, the exhibition can nonetheless be seen as a through success considering the difficult economic times.

König & Meyer was likewise very satisfied with the exhibition. This year the company had 5 exhibition stands in 5 different halls at the musikmesse and prolight+sound exhibition. "This was our bid to promote the image of our brand and the König & Meyer product", says managing director Gabriela König. The new location at the prolight+sound exhibition in hall 6.1 was particularly well received.

All the major national and international dealers and end users interested in our products visited the König & Meyer exhibition stand for information about our tried-and-tested classics and this year’s new developments, such as the new LED music stand lights, the compact stool, the practical guitar holder for microphone stands and the multimedia and pro audio table stand.

The exhibition stand also celebrated the premiere of videos produced by Wertheimer featuring six highlight products. Other videos for further products are planned. The videos are available for viewing on the product page and on the König & Meyer YouTube channel with a range of other interesting films to watch.

On the exhibition Friday, König & Meyer presented the rock band “THE JERKS” who gave a great performance on the Agora Stage. A particular highlight at the König & Meyer stand on the Saturday of the exhibition was the autograph session given by the band “DONOTS”, whose new CD the “The Long Way Home” had been launched in the shops one day previously. Hundreds of fans and exhibition visitors waited patiently for an autograph or for the opportunity to be photographed with the musicians. Lots of photos of the Agora Stage, the autograph signing session and indeed the whole exhibition can be viewed on König & Meyer‘s Facebook page.

Although recovery from the financial crisis is no doubt going to take some time, the industry is looking with cautious optimism to the future. The relatively stable job market and low inflation are factors which continue to maintain consumer confidence.  According to a GFK survey, the market in Germany is going to stagnate in 2010. The consumer will buy less, prompted by fear of unemployment, but, when purchasing then it is going to be the quality products that are bought. Infuriated by the banks’ morals the consumer will be looking for traditional brands which can be trusted and are true to sustainable values.

There was a general sense of optimism and confidence with fresh ideas in the air at the musikmesse / prolight+sound exhibition in Frankfurt, a mood which over the next few months can only grow. The next rendezvous is on 6th – 9th April 2011 in Frankfurt.

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PR | Oct 7, 2009

60th Anniversary Celebration

On September 18th and 19th 2009 König & Meyer GmbH & Co. KG celebrated its 60th anniversary with a number of different events.

400 people from home and abroad were invited to attend our jubilee celebrations in a marquee on the factory grounds on September 18th. During the welcoming speeches at this celebration, the senior partner, Martin König, the CEO, Gabriela König, the CTO Heiko Wolz and the Chief Mayor Stefan Miculicz went into the history of the company, the technical developments and the commercial significance of this music stand and accessory manufacturer. Here Martin König aired some most entertaining anecdotes about the development of the company. The celebration then went on into the early hours of the morning with music and dancing. Many formal and informal conversations took place in the cocktail and cigar lounge. With the warm weather many guests spent their time outside under the open sky.

There must have been around 1,300 visitors at our open day on September 19th, who took advantage of the opportunity to get to know the medium-sized company. Not only numerous citizens of Wertheim, also customers, suppliers and friends of our company were given a live demonstration of the manufacturing stages of – in the meantime – 1,500 end products by our production personnel. There was an entertaining supporting program with a bouncy castle and face-painting for the kids, an original giant table-soccer game and a variety of musical entertainment.

König & Meyer currently employs 250 people, has an export share of 60%, business connections in 80 countries around the world and is market leader in the quality music accessories branch. Our comprehensive product range includes stands for virtually every instrument as well as music stands, microphone stands, drummer’s thrones, 19-inch equipment, speaker and lighting stands; and we also make stands for medical and office equipment. Recently König & Meyer has also supplied holders and stands for multi-media purposes.

Today K&M still produces the classic products from its very beginning, such as the 101 music stand or the 210/2 microphone stand, that are still made in virtually the same way. But many innovations have also established themselves over the years, such as the instrument stands with plastic pegs and screw-on feet, the spider keyboard stands, the 18950 table style keyboard stand or speaker stands with crank, push-button or locking bolt systems.

Various other branches of product have consistently been tried out over the decades, such as the production of glass syringes, ice skates, stands for hairdryer hoods or plastic parts for household equipment. But in the end, music has remained the König & Meyer business sign, and the brand has enjoyed a worldwide reputation for top-quality music accessories. One of the reasons for this is the consistent driving force of our investment policy, with around five million Euros being invested in machines and buildings over the last three years. This year a new 800m2 dispatch hall was put into operation, and our next project will be the installation of an additional tube laser cutting machine.

In the next years and decades König & Meyer will be safeguarding and building even further on its market position through consistent investment in production facilities, innovative product ideas, prompt delivery, the very best quality and extraordinarily good customer service.

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