Guitar Center 401(k) plan

Guitar Center, Inc., Westlake Village, CA. EIN 85-4210591. Annual reports 2009–2025.

Guitar Center, Inc. has one active retirement plan on file, the Guitar Center, Inc. 401(k) Plan, with 14,882 participants and $216 million in assets in 2025. Fidelity has been its recordkeeper since 2009. No traditional pension plan appears in Guitar Center's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 14,882
Plan assets: $216 million
401(k) recordkeeper: Fidelity
Plans on file: 1
Industry: Retail

The plan

Guitar Center, Inc. 401(k) Plan

401(k)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2025 plan year.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 85-4210591
Participants (2025): 14,882
Net assets (2025): $216 million
Recordkeeper: Fidelity2009–2025
Plan administrator: Guitar Center, Inc. Benefits Committee
5795 Lindero Canyon RD.
Westlake Village, CA 91362
(818) 735-8800As filed for 2025
In effect since: November 1, 1981

Earlier plan names: Guitar Center, Inc. 401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	14,882	$216 million	Fidelity
2024	15,197	$182 million	Fidelity
2023	14,588	$158 million	Fidelity
2022	14,207	$128 million	Fidelity
2021	15,314	$152 million	Fidelity
2020	13,592	$128 million	Fidelity
2019	13,441	$107 million	Fidelity
2018	12,633	$82.6 million	Fidelity
2017	11,333	$83.9 million	Fidelity
2016	11,172	$68.9 million	Fidelity
2015	10,425	$60.9 million	Fidelity
2014	9,907	$64.1 million	Fidelity
2013	10,775	$59.3 million	Fidelity
2012	9,093	$50.4 million	Fidelity
2011	8,438	$46.2 million	Fidelity
2010	8,078	$48.8 million	Fidelity
2009	10,035	$43.2 million	Fidelity

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Fidelity (fidelity.com), which runs the Guitar Center, Inc. 401(k) Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((818) 735-8800). That number was filed for 2025; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.

The plan

Guitar Center, Inc. 401(k) Plan

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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