1974
The first Musik Produktiv store (90 m²!) opens in Ubostraße, Ibbenbüren.

Anecdote: "A long, long time ago a young, long haired musician figured he should do his fellow musicians some good. He followed his instinct and counted on his sales abilities and so boarded a ferry to the land of milk and honey - the home of those obscure objects of lust, like those of a certain Jim Marshall. (UK) He obtained his goods and left the country the same day heading back to Ibbenbüren to disturb Germany's peace forever. As he needed the right atmosphere in order to offer his loot to the slobbering crowd, he rented an old milk shop in Ibbenbüren, a peaceful little place in Westphalia/Germany. Here, people revered the goods, as if they were the standing before the messiah, many were able to obtain them in exchange for some silver coins or a side of beef. The triumphal procession had begun ..."

1976
The motto "Try before you buy" had many musicians flocking into the shop. As the space can handle no more, a move is made to a 400 m² shop a few roads further. This is the new, big place for Musik Produktive, at least for a few years.

1978
In the seventies and eighties there were hardly any media available with which musicians could inform themselves about instruments and technical equipment. Computers or even the internet were visions from Starwars and so Musik Produktiv invented its handbook for Musicians. The first issue was written with an old typewriter and copied in a cellar on a matrix machine. The first ever handbook included information to amplifiers, frequency ranges, microphones and other "Secrets of the modern musicians life".

The intro of the first 70 page catalogue in 1978: "You can try out lots of gear in our store. We have more than 30 different effects units ... we have installed several microphones and you can compare the sound differences with headphones. We stock more than 10 different mixers, and have more than 20 PA speakers lined up next to one another, so you can switch from speaker to speaker and combine ..."

1979 to 1985
Musik Produktiv gained nationwide popularity due to the large product range of the time, and soon became the incarnation of a modern music store. Standards were set as a new building with 1000 m² floor space was opened in the mid eighties, several extensions later the store had grown to over 1800 m².

1995
By 1995 the area at the Gildestraße had become too small for further expansions. Musik Produktiv builds new headquarters in the Fuggerstr. 6 in Ibbenbüren and is still situated there today. The old headquarters are now home to the Musik Produktiv whole sales company TRIUS, which consists of Trius Pro Audio und Trius Music.

1996:
Due to the need of more space, Musik Produktiv has to use free space in the old HQs.

1997 (May)
The grand opening of MP Switzerland. Musik Produktiv Switzerland is the largest Swiss musician's equipment store with about 2500 m² floor space and has everything a musician could ask for.

1998 (March)
The Launch of Musik Produktiv's online shop.
Musik Produktiv opens its own online store as one of the first music equipment retailers in Germany with the domain www.musik-produktiv.de soon followed by the international shop www.musik-produktiv.com, covering the demands of musicians all over Europe. The internet appearance and all applications where developed in-house and were optimised to present the wide range of products.

1998 (November)
The start of the first Musik Produktiv fair marks the start of one of the most successful events hosted by Musik Produktiv. The 3-day event has developed itself to the largest music exhibition in Germanys north and is a date not to me missed by musicians all over Europe.

The tenth exhibition in 2007 saw over 80 exhibitors showing the newest developments and trends in the music industry on around 4000 m² floor space. In and around the Musik Produktiv superstore there were a total of five event stages offering a music marathon to the approx. 19000 visitors, consisting of more than 140 workshops.

The upcoming event will be held in November 2008. News regarding the event and the past events can be found on the exhibitions own homepage: www.musik-produktiv-messe.de.

2001 (April)
The Mega store gets an extension to increase the floor space to 6000 m² (4100 m² show room). The department’s brass and woodwind, book shop, acoustic guitars, home keyboards and the specialist department Art Acoustica, were able to nearly double their stocked items. The departments electric guitar/bass, PA/sound systems, lighting equipment, drums & percussion as well as recording/synthesizers, were also able to extend their already impressive selection.

2002/2003
In 2002 and 2003 Musik Produktiv continues to invest. Due to the increasing demands of the mail-order sector, new warehousing facilities become essential. For this purpose a new building is constructed next to the Mega-store with more than 1,300 m² floor-area, and a storage capacity of 12,000 cubic metres. This space enables MP to process orders in more than 50 countries.

2004
The Musik Produktiv call centre is considerably extended. The huge amount of orders from countries of the EU made it necessary to hire a crew to cover the most important European languages. Under the motto “We speak your language” we have native speakers from Finland, France, Spain, Poland, England, Portugal, Italy, Russia and Germany.

Sunday, Oct. 29th 2006, 7:26 AM
Musik Produktiv´s darkest day. An overheated rechargeable lithium battery sparks a fire that destroys the entire foyer. The fire alarms call the fire brigade at 7.26 AM. The firemen prevent the fire from spreading to the much larger part of the building complex, making it possible to stay in business. Despite the circumstances the Musik Produktiv trade fair is not cancelled and is run as scheduled just 2 weeks after the blaze. With about 20000 visitors it is the must successful fair in its history.

2006/2007
Rapid refurbishments and alterations in the saved buildings enable the lost departments to stay in business in the remaining buildings. On over 3000 m² retail space musicians still find a product range second to none in Europe.

2007 (April)
Time to relaunch the Musik Produktiv online shop. Improved search functions, comparing function and loads of info and super deals are visited by many 1000 musicians a day.

2007 (May)
The ever increasing number of orders from other European countries made structural changes inevitable. Musik Produktiv has opened offices in Strasbourg and Stettin to be able to serve the new growing markets.