Sony Music Entertainment International Services: version 1
Saved 2026-09-26 12:39 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the 2024 20th-anniversary Peach Dream vinyl LP of Natasha Bedingfield's *Unwritten* (0196588377310), named by family/unwritten-natasha-bedingfield. Identity from Discogs release 31665233 (barcod. This is the current version.
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# Sony Music Entertainment International Services <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Music Entertainment International Services
summary: German company of the Sony Music group that coordinates Sony Music's European supply chain, operated by Arvato; its Gütersloh PO box is printed on Sony Music releases made in the EU.
legal_name: Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH
registered_address: Balanstraße 73, Haus 31, 81541 München, Germany
country: DE
register_ids: DE-HRB:München 225935
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------ | ------ | ---- |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | -------------------------------------- | ------- | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| | office | PO Box 510, 33311 Gütersloh, Germany | DE | ^mb-smeis | Postal address printed on releases; Discogs calls it obsolete (^discogs-smeis) |
| | office | Balanstraße 73, Haus 31, 81541 München | DE | ^discogs-smeis | Registered address |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH | legal | de | | |
| Sony Music International Services GmbH | name | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| discogs-smeis | https://api.discogs.com/labels/737249 | Discogs label 737249: Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH | 2026-09-26 | Discogs | catalogue | | 737249 | profile, contact info, parent label | | | |
| discogs | https://api.discogs.com/releases/31665233 | Discogs release 31665233: Natasha Bedingfield – Unwritten (LP, Album, Peach Dream vinyl, Europe, 2024) | 2026-09-26 | Discogs | catalogue | | 31665233 | identifiers, labels, tracklist, credits, notes, images | | | |
| mb-smeis | https://musicbrainz.org/label/9350e9d7-6c78-441d-9013-9dd5bb4ba630 | MusicBrainz label: Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH | 2026-09-26 | MusicBrainz | catalogue | | 9350e9d7-6c78-441d-9013-9dd5bb4ba630 | disambiguation, aliases, area | CC0 | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH is the German company that coordinates Sony Music's supply chain in Europe; MusicBrainz describes it as Sony Music Entertainment's supply chain coordinator for Europe, operated by Arvato and located in Gütersloh, and lists the shorter form Sony Music International Services GmbH.[^mb-smeis] Discogs, which names Sony Music Entertainment as its parent label, gives its registered address in Munich and a Gütersloh PO box.[^discogs-smeis]
According to the corporate chronology on Discogs, Sony Music outsourced its European supply chain organisation to Arvato in 2009, and the present company was re-registered in Munich on 25 May 2016 under HRB 225935, after the earlier company of the same name, renamed in March 2009, had merged into Sony Music Entertainment Services GmbH in April 2016.[^discogs-smeis] Its Gütersloh address is printed on the 2024 Peach Dream vinyl edition of Natasha Bedingfield's Unwritten.[^discogs]
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