Company
Gramophone Company
British record company behind His Master's Voice, founded in London in 1898; its legal entity became EMI Records in 1973 and is Parlophone Records today.
- Registered in
- π¬π§ United Kingdom
- Founded
- 10 December 1900
- Owned by
- EMI
- Brands here
- 1
- Products here
- 0
Who owns Gramophone Company
Every company above Gramophone Company, the top of the group first, each tie from a cited source.
Its owners are on its page
ownssince 20 July 2011
πΊπΈ Warner Music Group Also recorded as Warner Music Holdings's groupownssince 3 June 2020
ownssince 29 June 2018
ownssince 6 April 2016
ownssince 6 April 2016
new name1 July 1973
Earlier
- Owned by π¬π§ EMIMarch 1931 to 1 July 1973
What the sources say about these ties
- Parlophone Records new name
- Same registration, 00068172: renamed EMI Records Limited on 1 July 1973 and Parlophone Records Limited on 30 May 2013; that page carries today's owners
About Gramophone Company
The Gramophone Company was a British phonograph manufacturer and record company, founded in London in April 1898 by William Barry Owen and Edmund Trevor Lloyd Wynne Williams for Emil Berliner, the inventor of the gramophone record; it bought the His Master's Voice painting and trademark rights in 1899 and made the name a label for its phonographs and releases in 1909.[1] Its legal entity, registration 00068172, was incorporated on 10 December 1900 as Gramophone and Typewriter Limited and took the name The Gramophone Company Limited on 13 November 1907.[2] In March 1931 it merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form Electric and Musical Industries (EMI).[1] The same registration was renamed EMI Records Limited on 1 July 1973 and Parlophone Records Limited on 30 May 2013, and is still active.[2]
The December 1900 name followed Owen's purchase of the manufacturing rights of the Lambert Typewriter Company, an attempt to diversify in response to lawsuits by Edison Bell.[1] On 8 May 1925 the company founded Electrola GmbH in Nowawes near Potsdam as its German company, in place of Deutsche Grammophon, which the First World War had severed from it, and Electrola received its record licence that December.[3][4] The company bought 3 Abbey Road in 1929, and the studios there, later known as Abbey Road Studios, opened on 12 November 1931.[1] Under EMI the "Gramophone Company, Ltd." name stayed in use for decades, especially in copyright notices on records, and the His Master's Voice label ran until 1993, when EMI Classics replaced it.[1] After Universal Music Group bought EMI, the company, by then Parlophone Records, passed to Warner Music Group.[1] Wikidata's item for the legal entity, Q1521373, carries the same Companies House number.[5]
Brands tied to Gramophone Company 1
References
- ↑ Gramophone Company β Wikipedia Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-24. Lead, History, Formation of EMI. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- ↑ Parlophone Records Limited (00068172): company overview and previous names Companies House. registry. Accessed 2026-09-24. Record: 00068172. Incorporated on, Previous company names.
- ↑ Electrola β Wikipedia (German) Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-24. Unternehmensgeschichte, Katalog. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- ↑ Electrola β Wikipedia Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-24. Lead, History. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- ↑ Wikidata: The Gramophone Co. Ltd. (Q1521373) Wikidata. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-24. Record: Q1521373. P2622 (Companies House number). CC0.
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