Omni Music is the Bangladesh's largest retailer and distributor of musical instruments, pro audio equipment, and sound systems. Our music unit is the exclusive distributor of globally renowned Yamaha instruments and pro audio equipment. The Omni School of Music is also a part of this unit and offers high quality music education to students.
Company Profile
Omni Music was established in 2002 with the
object of distributing musical instruments. Soon after, we expanded into
distribution of pro audio & audio visual equipment and are presently
market leaders.
We have a full complement of management, finance,
administration, sales, technical & after sales service team of foreign
trained engineers located at Dhaka, Chittagong & Khulna districts and
covering the whole territory of Bangladesh.
We operate from the
largest showroom/retail premise in the country covering 7,000 square
feet and located at the upmarket commercial area of Dhanmandi in Dhaka
city with proximity to the major government ministries, defence
department,
academic institutions, cultural centres
(British Council, Goethe Institut, Alliance Francaise, American Center
and several leading local musical, cultural & teaching institutions),
studios, broadcast television & radio channels, auditoriums and
community centers, bands & rental companies.
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MARKET - SHORT PROFILE BY INDUSTRY
1. Television : we now
have over 30 private television channels and 3 national terrestrial
television channels with broadcast facilities and studios in all
district headquarters broadcasting throughout the country. 13 new
television channels licences have recently been awarded.
Also 7 new terrestrial TV channels have
just been contracted to a Chinese company.
2. Radio :
over 50 private FM channels & 10 AM +
FM channels are owned & operated by the government. In addition there
are over 30
community radio stations which will be
increased to over 1000 broadcast stations.
3. Sound Recording
Studios :
In addition to over 50 professional
studios, over a thousand musicians and engineers operate private
commercial & home studios.
4. Live Sound : a very
large number of sound rental companies
operate mainly in the Dhaka and
district markets and supply musical instruments & sound equipment for
live shows of medium and large events - ranging from 1000 persons to
35,000 persons in auditoriums and open stadiums using
- liner arrays, mixing consoles,
processors, amps, equalizers including microphones etc.
5.Supply &
Installations : We bid in over 500
government & defence tenders annually for the supply of musical
instruments
sound re-inforcements,
installations & sound solutions - and
to
foreign embassies, NGOs, schools,
international organizations, transnationals, universities and other
private customers etc., for their auditoriums and large spaces. etc.,
amounting to over US$ 25.0 million annually.
6.
Business :
we have and continue to supply audio &
video wired and wireless conference systems to several public & private
organisations.
All of the above market segments all over the
country are our customers since 2002.
In view of the absence of
a distributor concept in our market, musical instruments & pro audio
products are sold through the about 20 small retail shops of 50-60
square feet in area located all over
the city, stocked with counterfeit branded goods imported through money
laundering and Customs Duties evasion methods.
We distribute to all shops & traders in the
Bangladesh market additionally covering Chittagong, Sylhet, Khulna,
North Bengal etc (10% market share) as Dhaka covers 90% of the market.
Other than Omni, none of the sellers of musical
instruments & pro audio equipment import goods formally into the
country.
For your information, Customs Duties, Sales Taxes
etc of 60% are levied on the import of all musical instruments & pro
audio equipment, including microphones.
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