The marketing class at Harlan Christian School had the opportunity to visit Sweetwater located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. While there, they heard several speakers from various departments: Rachel Murphy-Directory of Photography and Digital Assets Manager, Jon Schefer-Managing Editor, Lynn Fuston-Manager of Written Content, Steve Dwyer- Directory of Brand and Content, Zac Bogart-Director of Digital Marketing, Joshua Gustin-Web Programming Manager, and David Stewart-Executive Vice-President, Chief Marketing Officer. After the presentation, the students took a tour of Sweetwater of the music store, recording studios, distribution center, and performance theatre, had lunch at the Downbeat Café, played games at the arcade center and went down the famous Sweetwater slide.
Sweetwater is one of the United States’ largest dealers in musical equipment for musicians, recording studios, schools, churches, concert sound companies and broadcasters. Sweetwater sells pro audio equipment, digital recording systems, pianos along with keyboards, guitars, microphones, mixers, loudspeakers signal processors, and drums. Sweetwater was founded in 1979 by Chuck Surack.