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Article: Pawn and beyond with M&M/Kona: a leading supplier to pawn shops, M&M Merchandisers is wowing music retailers with its own brand of guitars. (Company Profile).
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- Music Trades
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Rejection can be a powerful motivator. Just ask Marty Stenzler. Stenzler was still teenager when, as a mater of policy, a musical instrument distributor refused to sell product to his parents' pawnshop, the oldest in Fort Worth, Texas. Assuming that other shops were being similarly snubbed, Marry, already gutsy at 19, formed his own corporation with the intention of addressing that unfilled need. A quarter century later his company has branched out to become a respected supplier to the music retail industry and, more recently, the manufacturer of the hot new Kona line of guitars.
The enterprise that would later become M&M Merchandisers, Inc. entered the world ...