Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc.: version 1
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| 1 | 1 | # Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. <!--company--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | name: Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. | |
| 5 | − | disambiguation: Intermediate holding company under EDCI Holdings, Inc. and majority owner of Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC; EDCI's own SEC registration carried this name from 2007 to 2008 | |
| 6 | − | summary: American holding company through which EDCI Holdings held its majority interest in the Entertainment Distribution Company optical disc business. | |
| 5 | + | disambiguation: The Delaware corporation named Glenayre Technologies, Inc. until May 2007; not EDCI Holdings, Inc. formed above it in 2008, nor Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC below it | |
| 6 | + | summary: Delaware corporation, named Glenayre Technologies until May 2007, that held the Entertainment Distribution Company disc business under EDCI Holdings. | |
| 7 | 7 | legal_name: Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. | |
| 8 | + | registered_address: 825 8th Avenue, 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10019, United States | |
| 8 | 9 | country: US | |
| 10 | + | register_ids: US-EIN:98-0085742 | |
| 11 | + | founded: 1987-09-21 | |
| 9 | 12 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 10 | 13 | ||
| 11 | 14 | ## Relations <!--relations--> | |
| 12 | − | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 13 | − | | -------- | --------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 14 | − | | owned_by | company/edci-holdings | | | | | verified | ^sec-10k | The 2009 annual report calls EDCI Holdings a holding company and the parent of this company; EDC's own site calls it a wholly owned subsidiary of EDCI Holdings | | |
| 15 | + | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 16 | + | | -------- | --------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 17 | + | | owned_by | company/edci-holdings | | 2008-08-25 | | | verified | ^sec-8k-reorg | On consummation of the reorganisation this company became a wholly owned subsidiary of EDCI Holdings and its own stock ceased to trade; the 2009 annual report and the EDC website state the same chain | | |
| 15 | 18 | <!--/relations--> | |
| 16 | 19 | ||
| 20 | + | ## Establishments <!--establishments--> | |
| 21 | + | | mark | kind | address | country | source | note | | |
| 22 | + | | ---- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 23 | + | | | office | 825 8th Avenue, 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10019, United States | US | ^sec-10k2007 | Principal executive offices on the cover of its own annual report for 2007 and on the May 2007 name-change report; still the EDGAR business address | | |
| 24 | + | <!--/establishments--> | |
| 25 | + | ||
| 17 | 26 | ## Aliases <!--aliases--> | |
| 18 | − | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 19 | − | | -------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | | |
| 20 | − | | Entertainment Distribution Company Inc | search | en | | | | |
| 21 | − | | EDC, Inc. | search | en | | | | |
| 27 | + | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 28 | + | | ---------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---------- | ---------- | | |
| 29 | + | | Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. | legal | en | 2007-05-10 | | | |
| 30 | + | | Glenayre Technologies, Inc. | legal | en | | 2007-05-10 | | |
| 31 | + | | Glenayre Technologies | search | en | | 2007-05-10 | | |
| 32 | + | | Glenayre | search | en | | 2007-05-10 | | |
| 33 | + | | Entertainment Distribution Company Inc | search | en | | | | |
| 34 | + | | EDC, Inc. | search | en | | | | |
| 35 | + | | EDCI | search | en | 2007-05-11 | 2008-08-25 | | |
| 22 | 36 | <!--/aliases--> | |
| 23 | 37 | ||
| 24 | 38 | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 25 | − | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 26 | − | | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ------- | ----------- | -------- | | |
| 27 | − | | 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; Note 1 Business | | | | | |
| 28 | − | | edcllc | https://web.archive.org/web/20110727135323id_/http://www.edcllc.com/ | Welcome to EDC - edcllc.com home page (archived 27 July 2011) | 2026-09-20 | Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC via Internet Archive | manufacturer | 2011-07-27 | | Ownership statement | | | | | |
| 29 | − | | 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, former names with dates | | | | | |
| 39 | + | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 40 | + | | ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- | | |
| 41 | + | | sec-10k2007 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000095014408001960/g12251e10vk.htm | Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2007 | 2026-09-20 | Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2008-03-14 | 0000950144-08-001960 | Cover page; Item 1 Business Overview; Notes 1 and 2 | | | | | |
| 42 | + | | sec-8k-name | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000095014407004654/g07373e8vk.htm | Form 8-K reporting the change of name from Glenayre Technologies, Inc. | 2026-09-20 | Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2007-05-11 | 0000950144-07-004654 | Cover page; Item 5.03; Exhibit 3.1 | | | | | |
| 43 | + | | 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; transfer restrictions | | | | | |
| 44 | + | | 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 | | | | | |
| 45 | + | | sec-ex21 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000080891810000013/exhibit21_1-10k2009.htm | Subsidiaries of Entertainment Distribution Company (Form 10-K exhibit 21.1, 31 December 2009) | 2026-09-20 | EDCI Holdings, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2010-03-05 | 0000808918-10-000013 | Subsidiary list | | | | | |
| 46 | + | | 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; Note 1 Business | | | | | |
| 47 | + | | edcllc | https://web.archive.org/web/20110727135323id_/http://www.edcllc.com/ | Welcome to EDC - edcllc.com home page (archived 27 July 2011) | 2026-09-20 | Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC via Internet Archive | manufacturer | 2011-07-27 | | Ownership statement | | | | | |
| 48 | + | | 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; former names with dates; business address | | | | | |
| 30 | 49 | <!--/references--> | |
| 31 | 50 | ||
| 32 | 51 | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 33 | − | Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. is the American company through which EDCI Holdings, Inc. held its majority interest in Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC, the optical disc manufacturer and distributor formed out of Universal Music Group's CD and DVD business in May 2005. EDCI's annual report for 2009 describes EDCI as a holding company and the parent of this company, which together with its wholly owned and controlled majority owned subsidiaries made up the group's one reportable business segment.[^sec-10k] EDC's own website set out the same chain, calling EDC majority owned by Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EDCI Holdings, Inc.[^edcllc] | |
| 52 | + | Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. is the American corporation that held the Entertainment Distribution Company optical disc business, and it is the company that was named Glenayre Technologies, Inc. until May 2007. It was incorporated in Delaware on 21 September 1987 as the successor to a corporation organised on 7 April 1945, and it was itself the public company at the top of the group, listed on NASDAQ and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, until August 2008.[^sec-10k2007] In May 2005 it acquired the United States and central European CD and DVD manufacturing and distribution operations of Universal Music Group and held them through Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC, of which it held 97.99 per cent of the Class A and Class B units.[^sec-10k2007] On 25 August 2008 it became a wholly owned subsidiary of EDCI Holdings, Inc.[^sec-8k-reorg] | |
| 34 | 53 | ||
| 35 | − | The name is easily confused with the parent's. The SEC registration under CIK 808918 was filed as Glenayre Technologies, Inc. until 10 May 2007, as Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. from 11 May 2007 to 7 August 2008 and as EDCI Holdings, Inc. after that, so filings made under that name belong to the registrant that is now EDCI Holdings and not to this subsidiary, which the 2009 annual report names alongside it.[^sec-sub][^sec-10k] No register entry for this company itself has been read here, so its state of incorporation, its formation date, its registered office and any date of dissolution are not recorded, and no separate SEC filer record for it was found. | |
| 54 | + | The name changed by merger, not by re-incorporation. On 10 May 2007 a wholly owned subsidiary, Entertainment Distribution Company Merger Sub, Inc., was merged into the registrant under section 253 of the Delaware General Corporation Law for the sole purpose of changing its name; the corporation survived the merger, amended its certificate of incorporation and traded under the symbol EDCI from the next day.[^sec-8k-name] The notes to its own annual report for 2007 date the change to 11 May 2007, and EDGAR likewise runs the Glenayre registration name to 10 May 2007 and this one from 11 May 2007, so the two dates are the effective date and the first day under the new name rather than a disagreement about the event.[^sec-10k2007][^sec-sub] Throughout, it was the same registrant: commission file number 0-15761, CIK 0000808918, incorporated in Delaware, employer identification number 98-0085742.[^sec-10k2007][^sec-8k-name] | |
| 55 | + | ||
| 56 | + | EDCI Holdings, Inc. is a different corporation, not another name for this one. EDCI Holdings was newly formed in 2008 as a wholly owned subsidiary of this company, with no operating history, for the single purpose of a holding-company reorganisation; the transfer restrictions it introduced were meant to help preserve the group's net operating loss carryforwards.[^sec-s4] Under the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization of 3 June 2008, adopted by this company's stockholders on 22 August 2008 and consummated on 25 August 2008, the two positions reversed: this company became the wholly owned subsidiary, each ten of its shares were exchanged for one share of EDCI Holdings, and its own common stock ceased to trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market.[^sec-8k-reorg] EDCI Holdings then succeeded to the registration under CIK 808918, which is why filings from August 2008 onwards carry the parent's name while the Glenayre and 2007-2008 filings under that CIK are this company's.[^sec-sub] The annual report for 2009 names this company as the subsidiary through which EDCI held the disc business, and EDC's own website described the same chain, calling Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC majority owned by Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EDCI Holdings, Inc.[^sec-10k][^edcllc] | |
| 57 | + | ||
| 58 | + | The Glenayre lineage stayed with this company rather than passing to the parent. Its operations formerly included the Wireless Messaging, or paging, business it began exiting in May 2001 and the Glenayre Messaging business whose assets were sold in December 2006, both reported as discontinued operations.[^sec-10k2007][^sec-10k] At 31 December 2009 the subsidiaries held directly or indirectly under its name still included Glenayre Electronics, Inc. of Colorado, Glenayre Digital Systems, Inc. of North Carolina, Glenayre Manufacturing Limited of Canada, Glenayre Electronics Singapore Pte Limited, Glenayre Electronics (UK) Limited and Wireless Access, Inc. of California, alongside the disc companies Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC, EDC UK Holdings Limited and EDC Blackburn Limited.[^sec-ex21] Its principal executive offices were at 825 8th Avenue, 23rd Floor, New York, which is also the address EDGAR still shows for the CIK.[^sec-10k2007][^sec-sub] | |
| 59 | + | ||
| 60 | + | EDGAR first records the registrant filing as Glenayre Technologies, Inc. on 9 June 1994.[^sec-sub] The annual report for 2009 still describes EDCI Holdings as the parent of this company, which with its subsidiaries operated in the manufacturing and distribution segment of the optical disc industry; after its stockholders approved a Plan of Dissolution at a special meeting on 7 January 2010, EDCI Holdings filed a certificate of dissolution with the Delaware Secretary of State that month.[^sec-10k] | |
| 36 | 61 | <!--/about--> |
Source of v1
# Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc.
disambiguation: Intermediate holding company under EDCI Holdings, Inc. and majority owner of Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC; EDCI's own SEC registration carried this name from 2007 to 2008
summary: American holding company through which EDCI Holdings held its majority interest in the Entertainment Distribution Company optical disc business.
legal_name: Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc.
country: US
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | --------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/edci-holdings | | | | | verified | ^sec-10k | The 2009 annual report calls EDCI Holdings a holding company and the parent of this company; EDC's own site calls it a wholly owned subsidiary of EDCI Holdings |
<!--/relations-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Entertainment Distribution Company Inc | search | en | | |
| EDC, Inc. | search | en | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| 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; Note 1 Business | | | |
| edcllc | https://web.archive.org/web/20110727135323id_/http://www.edcllc.com/ | Welcome to EDC - edcllc.com home page (archived 27 July 2011) | 2026-09-20 | Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC via Internet Archive | manufacturer | 2011-07-27 | | Ownership statement | | | |
| 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, former names with dates | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. is the American company through which EDCI Holdings, Inc. held its majority interest in Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC, the optical disc manufacturer and distributor formed out of Universal Music Group's CD and DVD business in May 2005. EDCI's annual report for 2009 describes EDCI as a holding company and the parent of this company, which together with its wholly owned and controlled majority owned subsidiaries made up the group's one reportable business segment.[^sec-10k] EDC's own website set out the same chain, calling EDC majority owned by Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EDCI Holdings, Inc.[^edcllc]
The name is easily confused with the parent's. The SEC registration under CIK 808918 was filed as Glenayre Technologies, Inc. until 10 May 2007, as Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. from 11 May 2007 to 7 August 2008 and as EDCI Holdings, Inc. after that, so filings made under that name belong to the registrant that is now EDCI Holdings and not to this subsidiary, which the 2009 annual report names alongside it.[^sec-sub][^sec-10k] No register entry for this company itself has been read here, so its state of incorporation, its formation date, its registered office and any date of dissolution are not recorded, and no separate SEC filer record for it was found.
<!--/about-->