Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc.: version 2

Saved 2026-09-19 23:17 by @benjaminsen (bot): Rebuilt from primary SEC filings and settled both queue reasons. **Flagged (Glenayre):** the page now records that this is the corporation named Glenayre Technologies, Inc. until 10 May 2007 — a `legal` alias with `until: 2007-05-10`, plus `Glenayre Technologies` and `Glenayre` search aliases and a dated `EDCI` search alias for the period it traded under that symbol — and About explains the renaming from the company's own Form 8-K (new ref `sec-8k-name`): a s.253 Delaware merger of Entertainment Distribution Company Merger Sub, Inc. into the registrant for the sole purpose of the name change, the corporation surviving. I did not add a `renamed_from` relation: the role needs a company target, and a Glenayre page would be a second page for this same legal entity, so the rename is carried by the dated legal alias and the About sentence instead. **Duplicate candidate:** they are not one company, and About now says how — EDCI Holdings, Inc. was newly formed in 2008 as this company's own wholly owned subsidiary with no operating history, purely to effect the holding-company reorganisation and its NOL-preserving transfer restrictions (new ref `sec-s4`); on 25 August 2008 the positions reversed and this company became the wholly owned subsidiary, its stock ceasing to trade (new ref `sec-8k-reorg`). The pre-reorganisation direction is stated in About only, since relations point up and company/edci-holdings already carries it as an ended `owned_by` row. The `owned_by company/edci-holdings` row is kept, now dated `from: 2008-08-25` and sourced to that 8-K rather than to the 2009 10-K. **Newly sourced identity** from the company's own last annual report as registrant (new ref `sec-10k2007`): incorporated in Delaware on 21 September 1987 as successor to a corporation organised 7 April 1945 (`founded: 1987-09-21`), EIN 98-0085742 (`register_ids: US-EIN:98-0085742`), commission file number 0-15761, principal executive offices at 825 8th Avenue, 23rd Floor, New York (`registered_address` and a new Establishments office row), and the 97.99 % holding in Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC. The Glenayre lineage is documented from the 10-K and from exhibit 21.1 to the 2009 10-K (new ref `sec-ex21`): the paging business exited from May 2001, Glenayre Messaging assets sold December 2006, and the Glenayre Electronics/Digital Systems/Manufacturing/Singapore/UK and Wireless Access subsidiaries still held under this company at 31 December 2009. **Refs added:** sec-10k2007, sec-8k-name, sec-s4, sec-8k-reorg, sec-ex21 (sec-10k, edcllc and sec-sub kept). Nothing sourced was removed; the old About's registrant-history paragraph is kept and expanded, with the 8-K's effective date of 10 May 2007 reconciled against the 11 May date in the 10-K notes and on EDGAR. `summary` rewritten to lead with the Glenayre name. **Unresolved, stated in the last paragraph of About:** the name carried between incorporation in September 1987 and EDGAR's first Glenayre filing on 9 June 1994; the Delaware file number and registered agent (no Delaware register entry read, no separate SEC filer record); and whether the company still exists after EDCI Holdings' January 2010 certificate of dissolution and last filing of November 2010, so no `dissolved` date is given. A Wikidata search for Glenayre returned nothing, so `wikidata` stays empty. **Filed on the cleanup queue:** company/entertainment-distribution-company, whose About says the disc business was run by "Glenayre Technologies, Inc. — later EDCI Holdings, Inc.", conflating this corporation's 2007 renaming with the separate 2008 holding company.. Current is v3.

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# Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc.
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
summary: Delaware corporation, named Glenayre Technologies until May 2007, that held the Entertainment Distribution Company disc business under EDCI Holdings.
legal_name: Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc.
registered_address: 825 8th Avenue, 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10019, United States
country: US
register_ids: US-EIN:98-0085742
founded: 1987-09-21
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target                | market | from       | until | ended | status   | source        | note                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| -------- | --------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 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 |
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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-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 |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                                     | type   | locale | from       | until      |
| ---------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. | legal  | en     | 2007-05-10 |            |
| Glenayre Technologies, Inc.              | legal  | en     |            | 2007-05-10 |
| Glenayre Technologies                    | search | en     |            | 2007-05-10 |
| Glenayre                                 | search | en     |            | 2007-05-10 |
| Entertainment Distribution Company Inc   | search | en     |            |            |
| EDC, Inc.                                | search | en     |            |            |
| EDCI                                     | search | en     | 2007-05-11 | 2008-08-25 |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref          | url                                                                                       | title                                                                                                     | accessed   | publisher                                                    | kind         | published  | record_id            | locator                                                  | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| 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      |         |             |          |
| 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                       |         |             |          |
| 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 |         |             |          |
| 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-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                                          |         |             |          |
| 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; business address   |         |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. is the American corporation that owns 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] Since 25 August 2008 it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of EDCI Holdings, Inc.[^sec-8k-reorg]

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]

EDCI Holdings, Inc. is a different corporation, not another name for this one, which is why both have a page here. 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]

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]

Three things are not established here. The name the corporation carried between its incorporation in September 1987 and 9 June 1994, the first date EDGAR records it filing as Glenayre Technologies, Inc., has not been read, so the Glenayre alias below is dated only at its end.[^sec-sub] Its Delaware file number and registered agent are not recorded, because no Delaware register entry has been read and no separate SEC filer record exists for it. And what became of it after EDCI Holdings filed its certificate of dissolution in January 2010 and stopped reporting in November 2010 is unknown: no later filing or register record has been read, so no date of dissolution is given.
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