PMDC, USA: version 2

Saved 2026-09-20 03:54 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled the flagged gap and re-verified every source. Ownership is now in Relations: `owned_by company/polygram` from June 1992 to 30 September 1999 (ended), sourced to the Discogs PMDC group profile (new References row `discogs-pmdc-group`, api.discogs.com/labels/265455), which states that the PMDC name marked PolyGram's ownership of its pressing plants, lists PMDC, USA (label 360848) among them and dates Grover as the first plant renamed, in June 1992 - the same row the French sister plant company/pmdc carries. Added `parent_org company/universal-music-group` from 1998, sourced to the New Yorker piece the page already cited, which I re-fetched and which says the 1998 Seagram purchase of PolyGram from Philips comprised the global pressing network including the Kings Mountain plant: About asserted that group ownership in prose but no relation carried it. `renamed_to` is unchanged. Also new: References row `discogs-pdo-usa` (label 358102) for the plant's 1986-1992 life as Philips and Du Pont Optical's US plant, which is where June 1992 as the start of PolyGram ownership comes from; no renamed_from row, because Discogs says the PMDC company was incorporated on 18 June 1992 while calling the plant a rename of PDO, USA, and the two readings are not settled. Aliases gained the searches people actually type: PMDC USA, Made in USA by PMDC and the four mastering SID codes IFPI L005, L006, L007 and L009 from the plant profile. About rewritten to carry the ownership chain, the PDO predecessor and the sister-plant distinction, and its last paragraph now also records that Wikidata has no item for the company (checked, wbsearchentities returns nothing), Commons no logo, and that the incorporation and renaming dates rest on Discogs alone. Nothing was removed: every earlier fact, date and source is still on the page. Accessed dates on the two existing References rows moved to 2026-09-20 because I re-fetched both today. Unsettled and stated on the page: Delaware and North Carolina registers stay unreachable, so no register number or registered address. Filed a cleanup flag on company/polygram, the owner page this now points at: its About names Philips, Siemens and the 1998 Seagram sale but its Relations table has no owned_by row, so the walk up the group stops there.. Current is v3.

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# PMDC, USA <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: PMDC, USA
disambiguation: PolyGram's CD plant at Grover, North Carolina, 1992-1999; not the PMDC plant at Louviers in France
summary: PolyGram's US compact-disc plant at Grover, North Carolina, whose discs read "Made in USA by PMDC", renamed UMG Manufacturing & Logistics in 1999.
legal_name: PolyGram Manufacturing and Distribution Centers, Inc.
country: US
founded: 1992-06-18
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target                              | market | from       | until      | ended | status  | source              | note                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| ---------- | ----------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- | ----- | ------- | ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by   | company/polygram                    |        | 1992-06    | 1999-09-30 | true  | sourced | ^discogs-pmdc-group | Discogs' PMDC group profile says the name marked PolyGram's ownership of its pressing plants and lists PMDC, USA among them; Grover was the first plant renamed, in June 1992.                     |
| parent_org | company/universal-music-group       |        | 1998       |            |       | sourced | ^newyorker          | Seagram bought PolyGram from Philips in 1998 and merged it with Universal Music Group, the pressing network and the Kings Mountain plant included; PolyGram remained the owner named on the discs. |
| renamed_to | company/umg-manufacturing-logistics |        | 1999-10-01 |            |       | sourced | ^discogs-pmdc-usa   | Discogs dates the renaming to 30 September 1999 on this profile and to 1 October 1999 on the UML profile.                                                                                          |
<!--/relations-->

## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind  | address                                                        | country | source            | note                                                              |
| ---- | ----- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
|      | plant | 700 South Battleground Avenue, Grover, NC 28073, United States | US      | ^discogs-pmdc-usa | The same plant continued under the UML name after September 1999. |
<!--/establishments-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                                                  | type   | locale | from       | until      |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| PolyGram Manufacturing and Distribution Centers, Inc. | legal  | en     | 1992-11-02 | 1999-09-30 |
| PMDC, Inc.                                            | legal  | en     | 1992-06-18 | 1992-11-02 |
| PMDC                                                  | search | en     |            |            |
| PMDC USA                                              | search | en     |            |            |
| Made in USA by PMDC                                   | search | en     |            |            |
| IFPI L005                                             | search | en     |            |            |
| IFPI L006                                             | search | en     |            |            |
| IFPI L007                                             | search | en     |            |            |
| IFPI L009                                             | search | en     |            |            |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref                | url                                                                                | title                                                                  | accessed   | publisher      | kind        | published  | record_id | locator                             | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | -------------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| discogs-pmdc-usa   | https://api.discogs.com/labels/360848                                              | Discogs label 360848: PMDC, USA (Grover, North Carolina)               | 2026-09-20 | Discogs        | catalogue   |            | 360848    | profile, contact info               |         |             |          |
| discogs-pmdc-group | https://api.discogs.com/labels/265455                                              | Discogs label 265455: PMDC, the PolyGram plant group and its sublabels | 2026-09-20 | Discogs        | catalogue   |            | 265455    | profile, sublabels, parent label    |         |             |          |
| discogs-pdo-usa    | https://api.discogs.com/labels/358102                                              | Discogs label 358102: PDO, USA (Philips DuPont Optical, Grover)        | 2026-09-20 | Discogs        | catalogue   |            | 358102    | profile, contact info               |         |             |          |
| newyorker          | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-broke-the-music-business | The Man Who Broke the Music Business                                   | 2026-09-20 | The New Yorker | publication | 2015-04-27 |           | Kings Mountain plant, PolyGram sale |         |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
PMDC, USA was PolyGram's compact-disc manufacturing plant at 700 South Battleground Avenue in Grover, near Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Discogs records the company as incorporated as PMDC, Inc. on 18 June 1992, renamed PolyGram Manufacturing and Distribution Centers, Inc. on 2 November 1992, and renamed again to UMG Manufacturing & Logistics Inc. on 30 September 1999; the discs it pressed are credited "Made in USA by PMDC" and carry the mastering SID codes IFPI L005, L006, L007 and L009 and mould SID codes beginning IFPI 03, which the successor inherited.[^discogs-pmdc-usa] The PMDC name itself marked PolyGram's ownership of its pressing plants, and Grover was the first of them to take it, in June 1992, before the Dutch, German and French plants in 1993 and the British one in 1996; each carried a national credit and its own mould SID block, 03xx being this one.[^discogs-pmdc-group]

The plant had opened as PDO, USA, the American arm of Philips and Du Pont Optical, and traded under that name from December 1986 until PolyGram took it over in June 1992, which is why early PMDC discs are hard to tell from late PDO ones.[^discogs-pdo-usa] In 1998 Seagram bought PolyGram from Philips and merged it with Universal Music Group; the deal comprised the global pressing and distribution network, the Kings Mountain plant included, so Universal sat above PolyGram as the group owner while the company kept the PMDC name for another year.[^newyorker] PolyGram ran a separate PMDC plant at Louviers in France, which has its own entry here; the two were sister manufacturing subsidiaries trading under one name in different countries, not one company.[^discogs-pmdc-group]

Delaware's company register cannot be searched from here and North Carolina's refused our requests, so no registered office address or register number is given; Wikidata holds no item for the company and Wikimedia Commons no logo, and the incorporation date and the two renamings rest on the Discogs profile alone, no filing for them being readable from here.
<!--/about-->