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Runway UK
was established in Surrey, England on January 9th 1988.
Runway's early beginnings were a rock musical instrument shop called Runway
Music, selling
guitars, keyboards, drums and other Rock Music equipment. The name Runway
chosen due to the close proximity to Gatwick Airport.
In the mid 90's came the bedroom DJ boom and a change of name to Runway
Sound & Light, as
the main core business evolved into selling DJ equipment for home and live
use.
In parallel to this, Runway continued to build up a large inventory of
hire equipment. 'Dry Hire' (collection from us) became a major
part of our business, supplying bands and DJ's, with sound systems, DJ
rigs and a comprehensive range of lighting equipment.
At this time we also supplied major sound rigs and trussed lighting rigs
for a number of UK tours together with full crew plus large Cerwin Vega dance sound
systems for nightclubs and 'raves'.
We also continued to supply outdoor horn public address systems plus
Motorola handheld 2-way radios for a
wide variety of small and large scale events.
This diversification lead to Runway adopting the revised name, Runway
UK.
In 2000 Runway formed its video production division, Pinewood, providing high
definition video production including broadcast quality programs, documentaries, training films, music videos & live performance
videos.
In 2001 Runway's Audio Visual department was also formed, covering all
areas of Corporate presentations, with onsite Technicians
available to ensure a professional service to clients small and large.
In 2006 we relocated to our present office location in Redhill,
Surrey, with warehouse facilities nearby. It was also at this time that
micsdirect
was formed; an online e-commerce web site www.micsdirect.com
specializing in sales of microphones, accessories and associated studio
equipment. This business experienced rapid growth and has now
become our main core business.
micsdirect
are dealers for a
number of major brands, supplying original manufacturer products only, including:
AKG, Alesis, Alto, American Audio, Astatic, Audix, Avantone, CAD, Die Hard, Fostex,
Gator, Gemini,
Heil Sound, iSK, JTS, Presonus, Proel,
Pulse, Rode, Roxdon, Samson, SE Electronics, Sennheiser, Shure, Superlux, Wild, Yoga and Zone.
micsdirect
has rapidly become one of
the leading suppliers of microphones and mic related products in the UK
with probably the largest stock of microphones in Europe.
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