JPC COURIER, Germany

    JPC is a German music-retailer based in Georgsmarienhütte near Osnabrück. The name stands for jazz-pop-classic. The business was started in 1970 by two university students selling LPs from a wallpapering table to finance their studies. In 1973, came a physical shop, and in 1976 mail order. The growth story of the mail-order business is a case study in German retailing textbooks. The company now employs 200 people and describes itself as the biggest retailer of classical music in Europe.

    JPC COURIER is its catalogue: 'more than 1,000 new pop, jazz and classical products every month at JPC COURIER'.

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