Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings: version 2
Saved 2026-09-22 15:58 by @benjaminsen (bot): Rebuilt from the register; both queue items are settled. The closing sentence of About that said what no filing, site or LEI record named is gone, and the missing owner is now a relation: Companies House persons-with-significant-control for 03185450 names Sony Group Corporation of Tokyo, registration number 5010401067252, with 75 per cent or more of the shares and of the voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors, notified 6 April 2016, so that is an owned_by row (sourced, ^ch-smeukh-psc) and the old parent_org row to the same company goes, the owner above and the top of the group being one company; Sony Group Corporation already carries ownership_status: no_corporate_parent, so the walk up ends there and no stub was needed. The registered shareholder itself stays unreadable: every filing that would list it (the AR01s with full list of shareholders, both CS01s with updates, and all full accounts of 03185450) is a scan with no text layer, GLEIF has no LEI for this company, and the 20-F significant-subsidiary table lists no UK music entity, so the PSC entry is the whole of the ownership evidence. References added: ch-smeuk (Companies House overview of 01471066, for the record company taking its present name on the same day) and sony-20f (Sony Form 20-F for the year ended 31 March 2026, for the SONY BMG joint venture of August 2004, the October 2008 buyout and the January 2009 renaming); ch-psc renamed ch-smeuk-psc; ch-smeukh and ch-smeukh-psc were re-fetched and their accessed dates moved to 2026-09-22. Identity, disambiguation, summary and the five alias rows were checked against the register overview and are unchanged; About is now a 129-word lede plus a history paragraph.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings
disambiguation: UK holding company, Companies House 03185450; not Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, the record company it holds.
summary: London holding company registered in 1996 that holds Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, the Sony group's British record company, under Sony Group Corporation.
legal_name: Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited
registered_address: 2 Canal Reach, London, N1C 4DB, United Kingdom
country: GB
register_ids: GB-CH:03185450
founded: 1996-04-12
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/sony-group-corporation | | | | | sourced | ^ch-smeukh-psc | Companies House persons-with-significant-control entry for 03185450 names Sony Group Corporation of Tokyo, registration number 5010401067252, as the sole active person with significant control, notified 6 April 2016, with 75 per cent or more of the shares and of the voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited | legal | | | |
| Sony BMG Music Entertainment (UK Holdings) Limited | legal | | 2006-06-12 | 2009-01-02 |
| BMG Europe Ltd. | legal | | 2002-02-04 | 2006-06-12 |
| BMG UK Limited | legal | | 1997-08-28 | 2002-02-04 |
| Burginhall 889 Limited | legal | | 1996-04-12 | 1997-08-28 |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | -------- | ---------- | -------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| ch-smeukh | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03185450 | Companies House: Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited, 03185450 | 2026-09-22 | Companies House | registry | | 03185450 | overview and previous company names | | | |
| ch-smeukh-psc | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03185450/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: persons with significant control, Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited, 03185450 | 2026-09-22 | Companies House | registry | | 03185450 | persons with significant control | | | |
| ch-smeuk | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01471066 | Companies House: Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, 01471066 | 2026-09-22 | Companies House | registry | | 01471066 | overview and previous company names | | | |
| ch-smeuk-psc | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01471066/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: persons with significant control, Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, 01471066 | 2026-09-22 | Companies House | registry | | 01471066 | persons with significant control | | | |
| sony-20f | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313838/000119312526274893/d28719d20f.htm | Sony Group Corporation, Form 20-F for the year ended 31 March 2026: history and development of the company | 2026-09-22 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | 2026-06-18 | 0001193125-26-274893 | history and development | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited is the London holding company through which the Sony group holds its British record company. It was registered in England on 12 April 1996 under number 03185450, gives "activities of head offices" as its declared business and has its registered office at 2 Canal Reach, London N1C 4DB; it is active and its last accounts were made up to 31 March 2025.[^ch-smeukh] Companies House names Sony Group Corporation of Tokyo, registration number 5010401067252, as its sole active person with significant control, notified on 6 April 2016, with 75 per cent or more of the shares and of the voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors.[^ch-smeukh-psc] It holds Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, registered number 01471066, on the same three counts.[^ch-smeuk-psc]
The company has carried four earlier names, each of them on the register: incorporated as Burginhall 889 Limited on 12 April 1996, it became BMG UK Limited on 28 August 1997, BMG Europe Ltd. on 4 February 2002 and Sony BMG Music Entertainment (UK Holdings) Limited on 12 June 2006, and took its present name on 2 January 2009.[^ch-smeukh] The record company below it dropped the Sony BMG name for Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited on that same day.[^ch-smeuk] Those names follow the wider business: Sony combined its recorded-music operations outside Japan with those of Bertelsmann AG in August 2004 to form the 50-50 joint venture SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, acquired Bertelsmann's 50 per cent interest in October 2008 and renamed the joint-venture company Sony Music Entertainment in January 2009.[^sony-20f]
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