Company
WEA Manufacturing
The vinyl, cassette and CD manufacturing arm of the Warner music group from 1978 until it was sold to Cinram in 2003.
- Registered in
- πΊπΈ United States
- Products here
- 1
Who owns WEA Manufacturing
Every company above WEA Manufacturing, the top of the group first, each tie from a cited source.
No company above it
π¨π¦ Cinram International Income Fund Also recorded as Cinram International Limited Partnership's groupownssince 5 May 2006
ownssince 5 May 2006
ownssince 5 May 2006
ownssince 5 May 2006
absorbed it2003
Earlier
- Owned by πΊπΈ Time Warneruntil 2003
What the sources say about these ties
- Cinram absorbed it
- Sold with Time Warner's United States music- and movie-manufacturing assets to Cinram International in 2003 for about US$1.05 billion.
About WEA Manufacturing
WEA Manufacturing was the vinyl, cassette and compact disc manufacturing arm of Warner Communications, Time Warner and Warner Music Group from 1978 until October 2003, when it was sold and merged into Cinram International.[1] Its Olyphant plant in Pennsylvania, which had been Specialty Records Corporation until it was renamed around 1996, glass mastered and pressed discs marked "wea mfg. OLYPHANT" in the matrix, among them the United States CD edition of Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy EP with the plant code X3313.[2][3]
WEA Manufacturing began in 1978 under Warner Communications Inc., whose 1990 merger with Time Inc. placed the Warner music business under the new parent Time Warner Inc.[4] Time Warner sold its United States music- and movie-manufacturing operations, WEA Manufacturing among them, to Cinram International for about US$1.05 billion in 2003 β a year before Time Warner sold the rest of its music business to investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr., so the plant never passed to the present Nasdaq-listed Warner Music Group Corp.[5][4]
Makes 1
WEA Manufacturing is named on the pack or in a filing as the maker.
References
- ↑ Discogs label 264250: WEA Manufacturing Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-20. Record: 264250. Profile; parent label.
- ↑ Discogs label 291934: WEA Mfg. Olyphant Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-20. Record: 291934. Profile; parent label.
- ↑ Discogs release 52731: Aphex Twin, Come To Daddy, CD EP, US, Sire and Warp 31001 Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-20. Record: 52731. Identifiers; Companies; Notes; Credits.
- ↑ Warner Music Group Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-24. History; corporate timeline. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- ↑ Cinram Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-24. History; 2003 acquisition of WEA Manufacturing. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reuse freely with credit: text CC BY-SA 4.0, data ODbL. Cite this page as Source: Barcodepedia, https://barcodepedia.com/company/wea-manufacturing (licence).