Entertainment Distribution Company (USA): version 3
Saved 2026-09-20 00:13 by @benjaminsen (bot): Confirmed and fixed the flagged error: Glenayre Technologies did not rename itself twice. About now says the 2007 rename to Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. (effective 10 May 2007, by a section 253 short-form merger) happened, and that EDCI Holdings, Inc. is a separate corporation formed in 2008 that became the parent in the reorganisation consummated on 25 August 2008, both with their own pages here. Rebuilt the rest from the filings: the 2005 closing report (8-K body, not just its press release) shows EDC USA was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC from 31 May 2005 and an indirect subsidiary of Glenayre, and that it signed the ten-year US CD, HDFD and distribution agreements with UMG Recordings, so owned_by and parent_org now carry from-dates, a former parent_org row (to 25 August 2008) and a new distributor_for row to company/universal-music-group (US, ended 31 December 2008). Establishments gained sizes and tenure from the 2007 annual report (Grover 356,000 sq ft owned and ISO 9001:2000/14001 registered; Fishers 648,000; Reno 100,000; Wilkes-Barre 60,000) and the note that the Reno and Wilkes-Barre leases ended on the Sony DADC closing; About adds the 419 staff at 31 December 2008 and the phase-out to April 2009. Two source datings are named and rejected: the June 2010 10-Q twice puts the Sony sale in December 2009, which its own three-year indemnity running to 1 January 2012 contradicts, and Wikipedia's November 2008. New References rows: sec-8k-body, sec-8k-name, sec-10k2007, sec-8k-reorg, sec-10k2008. Still missing, and said so in About: no Delaware or North Carolina register entry, so no formation date, registered office or dissolution date. No Meta section, so nothing to drop there; no Commons image exists for EDC.. This is the current version.
Source of v3
# Entertainment Distribution Company (USA) <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Entertainment Distribution Company (USA)
disambiguation: The US plant company under Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC; owner of the Grover (Kings Mountain), North Carolina disc plant from 2005
summary: Delaware subsidiary of Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC that bought Universal Music's US CD plant at Grover, North Carolina in May 2005.
legal_name: Entertainment Distribution Company (USA), LLC
country: US
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- | ----- | -------- | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/entertainment-distribution-company | | 2005-05-31 | | | verified | ^sec-8k-body | The closing report calls EDC USA and Universal Manufacturing & Logistics GmbH "each of which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of EDC"; the 2009 annual report still calls it a wholly-owned subsidiary of EDC |
| parent_org | company/entertainment-distribution-company-inc | | 2005-05-31 | 2008-08-25 | true | verified | ^sec-8k-body | At the closing it was "an indirect subsidiary of Glenayre Technologies, Inc.", the corporation that renamed itself Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. on 10 May 2007 |
| parent_org | company/edci-holdings | | 2008-08-25 | | | verified | ^sec-10k | EDCI Holdings took the top of the group in the reorganisation consummated on 25 August 2008 and held 97.99 % of EDC's units indirectly at 31 December 2009 |
| distributor_for | company/universal-music-group | US | 2005-05-31 | 2008-12-31 | true | verified | ^sec-8k-body | Party to the ten-year US CD and HDFD manufacturing agreements and the US distribution agreement with UMG Recordings, Inc.; those agreements passed to Sony DADC U.S., Inc. on 31 December 2008 |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | --------- | ----------------------------------------- | ------- | ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| | plant | Grover, North Carolina, United States | US | ^sec-10k2007 | 356,000 sq ft, the only facility of the group owned rather than leased; registered to ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001; called the Kings Mountain facility in the 2008 and 2009 reports, idle from 2009 and held for sale |
| | warehouse | Fishers, Indiana, United States | US | ^sec-10k2007 | 648,000 sq ft main US distribution centre and offices, leased to 2012; the distribution operations and all the equipment there passed to Sony DADC on 31 December 2008 |
| | warehouse | Reno, Nevada, United States | US | ^sec-10k2007 | 100,000 sq ft satellite distribution centre, leased to 2010; the lease was terminated effective on the closing of the Sony sale, per the 2008 annual report |
| | warehouse | Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States | US | ^sec-10k2007 | 60,000 sq ft satellite distribution centre, leased; the lease was terminated effective on the closing of the Sony sale, per the 2008 annual report |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| --------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Entertainment Distribution Company (USA), LLC | legal | en | | |
| Entertainment Distribution Company (USA) LLC | search | en | | |
| EDC USA | search | en | | |
| EDC (USA) | search | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ----------- | ---------- | -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| sec-apa | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000095014405005175/g94997exv2w1.txt | Asset Purchase Agreement among Entertainment Distribution Company (USA), LLC, UMG Manufacturing & Logistics, Inc. and Universal Music & Video Distribution, Corp. (8-K ex. 2.1) | 2026-09-20 | Glenayre Technologies, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2005-05-09 | 0000950144-05-005175 | Cover; preamble, parties | | | |
| sec-8k-body | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000095014405006192/g95544e8vk.htm | Glenayre Technologies, Inc. Form 8-K on completion of the Universal Music acquisition | 2026-09-20 | Glenayre Technologies, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2005-06-03 | 0000950144-05-006192 | Items 1.01 and 2.01; Manufacturing and Distribution Agreements | | | |
| sec-8k-jun | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000095014405006192/g95544exv99w1.htm | Glenayre Completes Acquisition (8-K exhibit 99.1) | 2026-09-20 | Glenayre Technologies, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2005-06-01 | 0000950144-05-006192 | News release | | | |
| 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 | Item 5.03 | | | |
| 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 | Item 1 Operations; Item 2 Properties | | | |
| 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 | Item 1 Employees and Sony sale; Item 2 Properties | | | |
| sec-ex21 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000080891810000013/exhibit21_1-10k2009.htm | Subsidiaries of Entertainment Distribution Company (10-K exhibit 21.1) | 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, Item 2 Properties, Item 3 Legal Proceedings | | | |
| sec-10q-2010 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808918/000080891810000028/edcih2q2010_10q.htm | EDCI Holdings, Inc. Form 10-Q for the quarter ended 30 June 2010 | 2026-09-20 | EDCI Holdings, Inc. via SEC EDGAR | registry | 2010-08-10 | 0000808918-10-000028 | Note 9 Assets Held for Sale; Update on Plan of Dissolution | | | |
| wikipedia-edc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Distribution_Company | Entertainment Distribution Company - Wikipedia | 2026-09-20 | Wikipedia | publication | | | Lead, History | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Entertainment Distribution Company (USA), LLC is the Delaware company that bought the United States half of Universal Music Group's compact-disc manufacturing and distribution business and ran it until the end of 2008. It closed on 31 May 2005 under an asset purchase agreement of 9 May 2005 with UMG Manufacturing & Logistics, Inc. and Universal Music & Video Distribution, Corp., taking the disc plant at Grover, North Carolina, which it owned outright, and the leased distribution centres at Fishers, Indiana, Reno, Nevada and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; $28.4 million of the $79.4 million paid at closing was for the US operations.[^sec-apa][^sec-8k-body][^sec-8k-jun] On the same day it signed the ten-year manufacturing and distribution agreements with UMG Recordings, Inc. that made it Universal's exclusive US supplier of CDs and of US distribution services, and it was from the closing a wholly owned subsidiary of Entertainment Distribution Company, LLC.[^sec-8k-body]
The corporation above it was Glenayre Technologies, Inc., which held the group through Glenayre Electronics, Inc. and owned about 98 per cent of the LLC's units at the closing.[^sec-8k-body] Glenayre renamed itself Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. with effect from 10 May 2007, by merging a wholly owned subsidiary into itself under section 253 of the Delaware General Corporation Law for that sole purpose.[^sec-8k-name] It did not then rename itself a second time. EDCI Holdings, Inc. is a separate corporation, formed in 2008 with no operating history, which became the parent when the reorganisation adopted by stockholders on 22 August 2008 was consummated on 25 August 2008 and each ten shares of Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc. were exchanged for one share of EDCI Holdings; both corporations have their own page here.[^sec-8k-reorg] Exhibit 21.1 to the 2009 annual report lists this company among the group's subsidiaries at 31 December 2009, when EDCI held 97.99 per cent of the LLC's units indirectly.[^sec-ex21][^sec-10k]
EDCI announced on 31 October 2008, and closed on 31 December 2008, the sale of substantially all of EDC's United States business to Sony DADC U.S., Inc. for $26.0 million in cash: the Fishers distribution operations, the US supply agreements with Universal, all the equipment at Fishers, certain manufacturing equipment in the Kings Mountain plant and certain other US customer relationships.[^sec-10k][^sec-10k2008] The leases of the Reno and Wilkes-Barre distribution centres were terminated effective on that closing.[^sec-10k2008] The plant itself was not sold. It stayed with this company: 356,000 square feet, the one facility of the group owned rather than leased, registered to ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 while it ran.[^sec-10k2007] There were still 419 people at it on 31 December 2008 under the transition services agreement; production staff were phased out by the end of February 2009 and the rest by the end of April 2009.[^sec-10k2008] The building was listed for sale from the second quarter of 2009, was still unsold at 30 June 2010, and EDC then expected up to $7.3 million of liquidating proceeds from this company, most of it the plant's price.[^sec-10k][^sec-10q-2010] The 2007 annual report calls the plant Grover, North Carolina, and the later ones Kings Mountain: one facility under two names.[^sec-10k2007][^sec-10k]
Two datings in the sources are wrong and are not followed here. The quarterly report for June 2010 twice puts the sale of EDC's US assets in December 2009, while the annual reports for 2008 and 2009 and that same report's own indemnity collateral, held until at least 1 January 2012 under a three-year obligation, all date the closing to 31 December 2008.[^sec-10q-2010][^sec-10k2008][^sec-10k] The English Wikipedia article dates the sale to November 2008, which matches neither the announcement of 31 October 2008 nor the closing.[^wikipedia-edc] No Delaware or North Carolina register entry for the company has been read, so its date of formation, its registered office and any date of dissolution are missing; the last filing that names it is the quarterly report of August 2010.[^sec-10q-2010]
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