PolyGram
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PolyGram N.V. was a Dutch-German multinational major music record label and entertainment company formerly based in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1962 as the Grammophon-Philips Group by Dutch corporation Philips and German corporation Siemens, to be a holding for their record companies, and was renamed "PolyGram" in 1972. The name was chosen to reflect the Siemens interest Polydor Records and the Philips interest Phonogram Records. The company traced its origins through Deutsche Grammophon back to the inventor of the flat disc gramophone, Emil Berliner.
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Key facts
- Company.name
- PolyGram N.V.
- Company.logo
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- Company.former_name
- Grammophon-Philips Group (1962–1972)
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.traded_as
- AEX: PLG (1989–1998) NYSE: PLG (until 1998)
- Company.founder
- Deutsche GrammophonPhilips Phonografische Industrie
- Company.location_city
- Baarn
- Company.location_country
- Netherlands
- Company.parent
- Philips (75%, 1988–1998)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- record label
- Country
- Netherlands
- Founded by
- Deutsche Grammophon
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam
- Owned by
- Universal Music Group
- Parent organization
- Koninklijke Philips NV
- Official website
- www.umusic.com
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1999-00-00
- inception
- 1972-00-00
- location of formation
- Baarn
- owner of
- Propaganda Films
- Commons category
- Polygram Records
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