EDCI Holdings: version 3
Saved 2026-09-23 16:52 by @benjaminsen (bot): Removed the About paragraph narrating what was not established (incorporation date/file number, end of winding up) and the page-meta clause about why aliases are kept. Settled owner_unknown: the October 2010 definitive proxy states no beneficial owner of more than 5% was known to the company (directors and officers 7.24% combined), so Identity now carries ownership_status: no_corporate_parent with ownership_source ^sec-proxy2010, explained in About. Added the November 2010 reverse/forward split (going-private) to About. Added References sec-proxy2010 and sec-8k-split. Open gaps (not on page): Delaware file number and exact 2008 incorporation date; how the three-year winding up ended after deregistration in Nov 2010 (the last SC 13E3/A of 2010-12-03 was not read).. This is the current version.
Source of v3
# EDCI Holdings <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: EDCI Holdings
disambiguation: Delaware holding company formed in 2008 above Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc., which is a different company with its own page: company/entertainment-distribution-company-inc
summary: Delaware holding company in New York, listed on NASDAQ as EDCI, that held the Entertainment Distribution Company disc business and dissolved from January 2010.
legal_name: EDCI Holdings, Inc.
ownership_status: no_corporate_parent
ownership_source: ^sec-proxy2010
registered_address: 11 East 44th Street, Suite 1201, New York, NY 10017, United States
country: US
register_ids: US-EIN:26-2694280
founded: 2008
dissolved: 2010-01
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ---------------------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ---------- | ----- | -------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/entertainment-distribution-company-inc | | 2008 | 2008-08-25 | true | verified | ^sec-s4 | EDCI Holdings was formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. for the sole purpose of effecting the reorganisation; on 25 August 2008 the positions reversed and that company became the subsidiary |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------- | ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| | office | 825 8th Avenue, 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10019, United States | US | ^sec-s4 | Principal place of business of EDCI Holdings, of Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. and of EDC Merger Sub in 2008; still the EDGAR profile address |
| | office | 1755 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10019, United States | US | ^sec-10k2008 | Address of principal executive offices on the cover of the annual report for 2008, filed 31 March 2009 |
| | office | 11 East 44th Street, Suite 1201, New York, NY 10017, United States | US | ^sec-form15 | Address of principal executive offices from September 2009 to the last filing on 15 November 2010 |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ---------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| EDCI Holdings, Inc. | legal | en | 2008 | |
| Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. | search | en | 2007-05-11 | 2008-08-07 |
| Glenayre Technologies, Inc. | search | en | 1994-06-09 | 2007-05-10 |
| EDCI | search | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | -------- | ---------- | -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| sec-sub | https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000808918.json | SEC EDGAR submissions record for EDCI Holdings, Inc. (CIK 808918) | 2026-09-20 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | | 0000808918 | Entity name, EIN, former names with dates, business address | | | |
| sec-s4 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000095014408004614/g13646sv4.htm | EDCI Holdings, Inc. Form S-4 registration statement and proxy statement/prospectus for the reorganisation | 2026-09-20 | EDCI Holdings, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2008-06-04 | 0000950144-08-004614 | The parties to the reorganization; principal place of business | | | |
| sec-8k-reorg | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000111667908001835/holdings8k-082608.htm | EDCI Holdings, Inc. Form 8-K on completion of the holding company reorganisation | 2026-09-20 | EDCI Holdings, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2008-08-26 | 0001116679-08-001835 | Items 3.01 and 3.03 | | | |
| sec-10k2008 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000080891809000010/edcih10k.htm | EDCI Holdings, Inc. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2008 | 2026-09-20 | EDCI Holdings, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2009-03-31 | 0000808918-09-000010 | Cover page address | | | |
| sec-8k-diss | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000080891809000069/prn091409edcidissolved.htm | EDCI Holdings, Inc. Form 8-K announcing the board's dissolution recommendation | 2026-09-20 | EDCI Holdings, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2009-09-14 | 0000808918-09-000069 | Item 8.01; cover page address | | | |
| sec-10k | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000080891810000013/edci10k_2009.htm | EDCI Holdings, Inc. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2009 | 2026-09-20 | EDCI Holdings, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2010-03-05 | 0000808918-10-000013 | Item 1 Business; Plan of Dissolution; cover page address | | | |
| sec-25 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000090883410000335/edci_25.htm | EDCI Holdings, Inc. Form 25 notification of removal from listing on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC | 2026-09-20 | EDCI Holdings, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2010-11-03 | 0000908834-10-000335 | Voluntary withdrawal under Rule 12d2-2(c) | | | |
| sec-form15 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000090883410000369/edci_form15.htm | EDCI Holdings, Inc. Form 15 certification and notice of termination of registration | 2026-09-20 | EDCI Holdings, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2010-11-15 | 0000908834-10-000369 | Rule 12g-4(a)(1); principal executive offices | | | |
| sec-proxy2010 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000090883410000311/edci_proxy.htm | EDCI Holdings, Inc. definitive proxy statement for the special meeting of 8 November 2010 | 2026-09-23 | EDCI Holdings, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2010-10-12 | 0000908834-10-000311 | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management | | | |
| sec-8k-split | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000090883410000350/edci_8k1108.htm | EDCI Holdings, Inc. Form 8-K on the results of the special meeting of 8 November 2010 | 2026-09-23 | EDCI Holdings, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2010-11-10 | 0000908834-10-000350 | Item 5.07 | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
EDCI Holdings, Inc. was an American holding company in New York whose one business was the optical disc maker Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC, of which it held 97.99 % of the units indirectly through subsidiaries; EDC had been formed in May 2005 out of the United States and central European CD and DVD manufacturing and distribution operations of Universal Music Group.[^sec-10k] The company itself was newly formed in Delaware in 2008 for the single purpose of a holding-company reorganisation, with no operating history and nominal assets of its own.[^sec-s4] Under the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization of 3 June 2008, consummated on 25 August 2008, Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. became its wholly owned subsidiary and every ten shares of that company were exchanged for one share of EDCI Holdings.[^sec-8k-reorg] It was widely held, with no corporate parent: its common stock traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol EDCI, and its proxy statement of October 2010 reported that no one beneficially owned more than 5 % of the shares, the directors and executive officers together holding 7.24 %.[^sec-8k-reorg][^sec-proxy2010] The Securities and Exchange Commission holds it under CIK 0000808918 with employer identification number 26-2694280.[^sec-sub]
The two older names on that CIK are registration names, not former names of this corporation. EDGAR shows the registrant filing as Glenayre Technologies, Inc. from 9 June 1994 to 10 May 2007, as Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. from 11 May 2007 to 7 August 2008 and as EDCI Holdings, Inc. from then on, the record date falling shortly before the reorganisation closed on 25 August 2008.[^sec-sub][^sec-8k-reorg] Both earlier names belonged to the predecessor registrant, which went on existing as a separate live company: the registration statement describes EDCI Holdings as a newly formed subsidiary of it,[^sec-s4] and the annual report for 2009 calls EDCI Holdings a holding company and the parent of Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc.[^sec-10k] That subsidiary, the corporation that carried the Glenayre name until May 2007, has its own page at company/entertainment-distribution-company-inc. The Glenayre lineage is why the group reported discontinued operations for years afterwards: the wireless messaging business it had begun exiting in May 2001 and the Glenayre Messaging business whose assets were sold in December 2006.[^sec-10k]
The board recommended a dissolution on 9 September 2009 and approved the final Plan of Complete Liquidation and Dissolution on 14 October 2009; stockholders approved it at a special meeting on 7 January 2010 with 99 % of the votes cast in favour, a certificate of dissolution was filed with the Delaware Secretary of State that month, and the company ceased every activity except the minimum three-year winding up Delaware law requires, making a first dissolution distribution of USD 3.12 a share on 1 February 2010.[^sec-10k][^sec-8k-diss] At a further special meeting on 8 November 2010 stockholders approved a 1-for-1,400 reverse stock split followed at once by a 1,400-for-1 forward split, under which record holders of fewer than 1,400 shares were paid USD 3.44 a share in cash.[^sec-proxy2010][^sec-8k-split] It withdrew its shares from NASDAQ on 3 November 2010 and terminated their registration on 15 November 2010, which is its last filing under that registration.[^sec-25][^sec-form15] Its New York address moved as it wound down, which is why sources disagree: 825 8th Avenue, 23rd Floor, New York 10019 through the 2008 reorganisation,[^sec-s4] 1755 Broadway, 4th Floor on the annual report for 2008 filed in March 2009,[^sec-10k2008] and 11 East 44th Street, Suite 1201, New York 10017 from September 2009 through the 2009 annual report to the final filing.[^sec-8k-diss][^sec-10k][^sec-form15] The EDGAR submissions record still carries the 2008 address at 825 8th Avenue, which those later filings supersede.[^sec-sub]
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