Arvato Digital Services USA: version 1

Saved 2026-09-15 11:16 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by review: Rebuilt the thin US-plant stub and settled all three queue points. (1) Added a Relations section pointing up: owned_by company/sonopress 2004-07-01 to 2008-03-31 (status derived, because Discogs label. Current is v2.

Changes from v1 to current

1	1		# Arvato Digital Services USA <!--company-->
2	2
3	3		## Identity <!--identity-->
4	4		name: Arvato Digital Services USA
5	5		disambiguation: Bertelsmann's disc plant in Weaverville, North Carolina, 2008-2016
	6	+	summary: Bertelsmann's CD and DVD plant at Weaverville, North Carolina, run by Arvato Digital Services LLC from April 2008 until arvato closed it in 2016.
6	7		legal_name: Arvato Digital Services LLC
7	8		country: US
8	9		founded: 2008-04
9	10		<!--/identity-->
10	11
11	12		## Relations <!--relations-->
12		−	\| role \| target \| market \| from \| until \| ended \| status \| source \| note \|
13		−	\| ---------- \| ------------------- \| ------ \| ------- \| ----- \| ----- \| ------- \| ---------------- \| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \|
14		−	\| parent_org \| company/bertelsmann \| \| 2008-04 \| \| \| sourced \| ^discogs-ads-usa \| Discogs describes the plant as part of the international arvato, Bertelsmann group; no filing naming the registered shareholder of the LLC was found \|
	13	+	\| role \| target \| market \| from \| until \| ended \| status \| source \| note \|
	14	+	\| ------------ \| ---------------------------- \| ------ \| ------- \| ----- \| ----- \| ------- \| ---------------- \| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \|
	15	+	\| owned_by \| company/arvato \| \| 2008-04 \| \| \| sourced \| ^adis-2010 \| The arvato digital services site places the business, of which the Weaverville plant was the US operation, inside arvato AG, the Gütersloh services division; Discogs files the plant as part of the international arvato, Bertelsmann group \|
	16	+	\| parent_org \| company/bertelsmann \| \| 2008-04 \| \| \| sourced \| ^discogs-ads-usa \| Discogs describes the plant as part of the international arvato, Bertelsmann group, and the division's own site states that arvato AG is a division of Bertelsmann AG \|
	17	+	\| renamed_from \| company/sonopress-arvato-usa \| \| 2008-04 \| \| \| sourced \| ^discogs-ads-usa \| The same Weaverville plant traded as Sonopress Arvato, USA to 31 March 2008; Arvato Digital Services LLC was formed in April 2008 and pressed under the new name from 3 April 2008 \|
15	18		<!--/relations-->
16	19
	20	+	## Establishments <!--establishments-->
	21	+	\| mark \| kind \| address \| country \| source \| note \|
	22	+	\| ---- \| ----- \| ------------------------------------------ \| ------- \| ---------------- \| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \|
	23	+	\| \| plant \| 108 Monticello Road, Weaverville, NC 28787 \| US \| ^discogs-ads-usa \| Glass-mastering and CD, DVD and CD-ROM replication; the contact block of the Arvato Digital Services entry gives 108 Monticello Road and that of the Arvato, USA entry 109 Monticello Rd \|
	24	+	<!--/establishments-->
	25	+
17	26		## Aliases <!--aliases-->
18	27		\| name \| type \| locale \| from \| until \|
19	28		\| ---------------------------- \| ------ \| ------ \| ------- \| ---------- \|
20	29		\| Arvato Digital Services, USA \| name \| \| 2008-04 \| 2011 \|
21	30		\| Arvato Digital Services LLC \| legal \| \| 2008-04 \| \|
22	31		\| Arvato, USA \| name \| \| 2011 \| 2016-04-30 \|
23	32		\| Arvato Weaverville \| search \| \| \| \|
24	33		<!--/aliases-->
25	34
26	35		## References <!--references-->
27		−	\| ref \| url \| title \| accessed \| publisher \| kind \| published \| record_id \| locator \| licence \| attribution \| upstream \|
28		−	\| ------------------ \| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------- \| ----------------- \| ----------- \| ---------- \| --------- \| ------------------------------ \| ------- \| ----------- \| -------- \|
29		−	\| discogs-ads-usa \| https://api.discogs.com/labels/4681908 \| Discogs label 4681908: Arvato Digital Services, USA \| 2026-09-15 \| Discogs \| catalogue \| \| 4681908 \| profile, history, contact info \| CC0 \| \| \|
30		−	\| discogs-arvato-usa \| https://api.discogs.com/labels/1381941 \| Discogs label 1381941: Arvato, USA \| 2026-09-15 \| Discogs \| catalogue \| \| 1381941 \| profile, history, contact info \| CC0 \| \| \|
31		−	\| discogs-sono-usa \| https://api.discogs.com/labels/1407628 \| Discogs label 1407628: Sonopress Arvato, USA \| 2026-09-15 \| Discogs \| catalogue \| \| 1407628 \| profile, history, contact info \| CC0 \| \| \|
32		−	\| storagenews-2016 \| https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2016/01/13/arvato-closing-weaverville-cddvd-replication-plant/ \| StorageNewsletter: arvato Closing Weaverville CD/DVD Replication Plant \| 2026-09-15 \| StorageNewsletter \| publication \| 2016-01-13 \| \| full report \| © \| \| \|
	36	+	\| ref \| url \| title \| accessed \| publisher \| kind \| published \| record_id \| locator \| licence \| attribution \| upstream \|
	37	+	\| ------------------ \| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------- \| ----------------------- \| ------------ \| ---------- \| -------------------- \| ------------------------------ \| ------------- \| ----------- \| -------- \|
	38	+	\| discogs-ads-usa \| https://api.discogs.com/labels/4681908 \| Discogs label 4681908: Arvato Digital Services, USA \| 2026-09-22 \| Discogs \| catalogue \| \| 4681908 \| profile, history, contact info \| CC0 \| \| \|
	39	+	\| discogs-arvato-usa \| https://api.discogs.com/labels/1381941 \| Discogs label 1381941: Arvato, USA \| 2026-09-22 \| Discogs \| catalogue \| \| 1381941 \| profile, history, contact info \| CC0 \| \| \|
	40	+	\| discogs-sono-usa \| https://api.discogs.com/labels/1407628 \| Discogs label 1407628: Sonopress Arvato, USA \| 2026-09-22 \| Discogs \| catalogue \| \| 1407628 \| profile, history, contact info \| CC0 \| \| \|
	41	+	\| adis-2010 \| https://web.archive.org/web/20101230103301/http://www.arvatodigitalservices.com/ \| arvato digital services: Home, Internet Archive capture of 30 December 2010 \| 2026-09-22 \| arvato digital services \| manufacturer \| 2010-12-30 \| \| home page, group structure \| © \| \| \|
	42	+	\| adis-legal-2010 \| https://web.archive.org/web/20101215010200/http://www.arvatodigitalservices.com/service/legal-notice/ \| arvato digital services: Legal notice, Internet Archive capture of 15 December 2010 \| 2026-09-22 \| arvato digital services \| manufacturer \| 2010-12-15 \| \| imprint \| © \| \| \|
	43	+	\| intuit-msa-2013 \| https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/896878/000089687813000163/exhibit1001-arvato.htm \| Intuit Inc. Form 10-Q, exhibit 10.01: Amendment Seven to the Intuit Master Service Agreement with Arvato Digital Services LLC \| 2026-09-22 \| SEC EDGAR \| registry \| 2013-11-22 \| 0000896878-13-000163 \| preamble, signature block \| public domain \| \| \|
	44	+	\| storagenews-2016 \| https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2016/01/13/arvato-closing-weaverville-cddvd-replication-plant/ \| StorageNewsletter: arvato Closing Weaverville CD/DVD Replication Plant \| 2026-09-22 \| StorageNewsletter \| publication \| 2016-01-13 \| \| full report \| © \| \| \|
33	45		<!--/references-->
34	46
35	47		## About <!--about-->
36		−	Arvato Digital Services LLC was formed in April 2008 to run the Bertelsmann group's CD, DVD and CD-ROM glass-mastering and replication plant in Weaverville, North Carolina, the plant that had traded as Sonopress Arvato, USA until 31 March 2008.[^discogs-ads-usa][^discogs-sono-usa] Discogs catalogues its output as Arvato Digital Services, USA from 3 April 2008 to late 2011 and as Arvato, USA from late 2011 to 30 April 2016, identifying the discs by the arvato logo with mastering SID codes IFPI L027, L028, LB41, LB48 and LY93.[^discogs-ads-usa][^discogs-arvato-usa] In January 2016 arvato announced that it was discontinuing disc replication in the United States and closing the Weaverville plant, transferring the CD and DVD business and games packaging to CDA, Inc. in Charlotte; other lines of business continued.[^storagenews-2016][^discogs-arvato-usa] The Discogs records give the address as 109 Monticello Road on the Sonopress Arvato and Arvato, USA entries and 108 Monticello Road on the Arvato Digital Services entry; no register record was found for the LLC, so no register number or dissolution date is recorded here.[^discogs-ads-usa][^discogs-arvato-usa]
	48	+	Arvato Digital Services LLC ran the Bertelsmann group's CD, DVD and CD-ROM glass-mastering and replication plant at Weaverville, North Carolina, from April 2008 until disc production there ended on 30 April 2016.[^discogs-ads-usa][^discogs-arvato-usa] It was formed in April 2008 to take over the plant that had traded as Sonopress Arvato, USA until 31 March 2008, and it was the United States operation of arvato digital services, the media and supply-chain business of Bertelsmann's arvato division.[^discogs-ads-usa][^adis-2010] Discogs catalogues its output as Arvato Digital Services, USA from 3 April 2008 to late 2011 and as Arvato, USA from late 2011 to 30 April 2016, identifying the discs by the arvato logo with mastering SID codes IFPI L027, L028, LB41, LB48 and LY93 and mould codes IFPI 10xx.[^discogs-ads-usa][^discogs-arvato-usa]
	49	+
	50	+	The Weaverville works opened in 1984 as an RCA tape-duplication facility, took the name Quality Tape Incorporated in 1985 and was bought that year with RCA/Ariola by Bertelsmann, after which it pressed discs as Sonopress USA and then, from July 2004, as Sonopress Arvato, USA.[^discogs-ads-usa][^discogs-sono-usa] The arvato digital services site of December 2010 put the business, alongside arvato print, arvato systems and arvato services, inside arvato AG, "the internationally networked media and communication service provider", and added that "arvato AG is a division of Bertelsmann AG, headquartered in Gütersloh, Germany"; the site's legal notice gives its German company as arvato digital services GmbH of Carl-Bertelsmann-Str. 161 F, Gütersloh, entered at the Local Court of Gütersloh as HR B 2034.[^adis-2010][^adis-legal-2010] The LLC also held service contracts outside replication: it is the contractor named in the Intuit master service agreement of 28 May 2003, whose seventh amendment, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in November 2013, extended the term to 14 September 2015 and was signed for the company by senior vice-president Christian Huelsewig.[^intuit-msa-2013] In January 2016 arvato Entertainment Inc. and CDA, Inc. agreed to transfer arvato's standard-definition CD and DVD replication and its packaging support for games customers to CDA's Charlotte facility; arvato discontinued replication in the United States and closed the Weaverville plant, while its other lines of business continued.[^storagenews-2016][^discogs-arvato-usa]
37	51		<!--/about-->

Source of v1

# Arvato Digital Services USA <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Arvato Digital Services USA
disambiguation: Bertelsmann's disc plant in Weaverville, North Carolina, 2008-2016
legal_name: Arvato Digital Services LLC
country: US
founded: 2008-04
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target              | market | from    | until | ended | status  | source           | note                                                                                                                                                 |
| ---------- | ------------------- | ------ | ------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| parent_org | company/bertelsmann |        | 2008-04 |       |       | sourced | ^discogs-ads-usa | Discogs describes the plant as part of the international arvato, Bertelsmann group; no filing naming the registered shareholder of the LLC was found |
<!--/relations-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                         | type   | locale | from    | until      |
| ---------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ------- | ---------- |
| Arvato Digital Services, USA | name   |        | 2008-04 | 2011       |
| Arvato Digital Services LLC  | legal  |        | 2008-04 |            |
| Arvato, USA                  | name   |        | 2011    | 2016-04-30 |
| Arvato Weaverville           | search |        |         |            |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref                | url                                                                                              | title                                                                  | accessed   | publisher         | kind        | published  | record_id | locator                        | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | ------------------------------ | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| discogs-ads-usa    | https://api.discogs.com/labels/4681908                                                           | Discogs label 4681908: Arvato Digital Services, USA                    | 2026-09-15 | Discogs           | catalogue   |            | 4681908   | profile, history, contact info | CC0     |             |          |
| discogs-arvato-usa | https://api.discogs.com/labels/1381941                                                           | Discogs label 1381941: Arvato, USA                                     | 2026-09-15 | Discogs           | catalogue   |            | 1381941   | profile, history, contact info | CC0     |             |          |
| discogs-sono-usa   | https://api.discogs.com/labels/1407628                                                           | Discogs label 1407628: Sonopress Arvato, USA                           | 2026-09-15 | Discogs           | catalogue   |            | 1407628   | profile, history, contact info | CC0     |             |          |
| storagenews-2016   | https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2016/01/13/arvato-closing-weaverville-cddvd-replication-plant/ | StorageNewsletter: arvato Closing Weaverville CD/DVD Replication Plant | 2026-09-15 | StorageNewsletter | publication | 2016-01-13 |           | full report                    | ©       |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Arvato Digital Services LLC was formed in April 2008 to run the Bertelsmann group's CD, DVD and CD-ROM glass-mastering and replication plant in Weaverville, North Carolina, the plant that had traded as Sonopress Arvato, USA until 31 March 2008.[^discogs-ads-usa][^discogs-sono-usa] Discogs catalogues its output as Arvato Digital Services, USA from 3 April 2008 to late 2011 and as Arvato, USA from late 2011 to 30 April 2016, identifying the discs by the arvato logo with mastering SID codes IFPI L027, L028, LB41, LB48 and LY93.[^discogs-ads-usa][^discogs-arvato-usa] In January 2016 arvato announced that it was discontinuing disc replication in the United States and closing the Weaverville plant, transferring the CD and DVD business and games packaging to CDA, Inc. in Charlotte; other lines of business continued.[^storagenews-2016][^discogs-arvato-usa] The Discogs records give the address as 109 Monticello Road on the Sonopress Arvato and Arvato, USA entries and 108 Monticello Road on the Arvato Digital Services entry; no register record was found for the LLC, so no register number or dissolution date is recorded here.[^discogs-ads-usa][^discogs-arvato-usa]
<!--/about-->