CBS, Haarlem: version 1

Saved 2026-09-26 14:34 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the European vinyl LP of Bob Dylan's Oh Mercy (CBS 465800 1, barcode 5099746580018), which family/oh-mercy names. Identity from the two MusicBrainz releases carrying the barcode (GB, NL) and six. This is the current version.

Source of v1

# CBS, Haarlem <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: CBS, Haarlem
disambiguation: CBS vinyl pressing, tape and printing plant in Haarlem, the Netherlands, 1971 to 1990
summary: Vinyl pressing, tape duplication and printing plant in Haarlem, the Netherlands, run under the CBS name from 1971 to 1990 and CBS's largest manufacturing plant in continental Europe.
country: NL
founded: 1958
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind  | address                               | country | source      | note                         |
| ---- | ----- | ------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | ---------------------------- |
|      | plant | Nijverheidsweg 32-36, 2031 CP Haarlem | NL      | ^dc-haarlem | Given on Discogs as obsolete |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                                               | type   | locale | from | until |
| -------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| CBS International Manufacturing and Service Center | name   |        |      |       |
| CBS Haarlem                                        | search |        |      |       |
| Artone Holland                                     | name   |        | 1958 | 1971  |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref        | url                                   | title                                | accessed   | publisher | kind      | published | record_id | locator          | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ---------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | ---------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| dc-haarlem | https://api.discogs.com/labels/371454 | Discogs company 371454: CBS, Haarlem | 2026-09-26 | Discogs   | catalogue |           | 371454    | profile, contact |         |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
The CBS plant in Haarlem pressed vinyl, duplicated tapes and printed sleeves under the CBS name from 1971 to 1990; its official name was CBS International Manufacturing and Service Center, and it was the largest CBS manufacturing plant in continental Europe and the only one with its own printing operation.[^dc-haarlem] It began in 1958 as Artone Holland, a 7-inch pressing plant; CBS bought half of it in 1966 and had full ownership by 1971.[^dc-haarlem]

Printing and LP and cassette lines were added in January 1974, a fire in September 1980 destroyed most of the jacket assembly plant, and a new printing plant opened in June 1982. A 3-inch CD line ran from November 1989. Although Sony had merged with CBS Records in 1988, the plant passed to Sony Music on 1 January 1991. Its pressings print "Made in Holland" on the labels and runouts of the form 01 465800 20 1A1 A, the first pair of digits being a CBS label code and the pair after the catalogue number a sort code (20 for a 12-inch record).[^dc-haarlem]
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