Parlophone Records

Recording company operating under this name since May 30, 2013. (Previously known as EMI Records Ltd.). Releases with this company are from May 30, 2013, or later. For the main label name, refer to Parlophone. Occasionally listed as "Parlophone Records Limited." Primary activities include the sale and distribution of recorded music (license/copyright holder). Since 2013, Parlophone Records Ltd. has been the registered owner of the Parlophone, Regal, Stateside, Food, Zonophone, Compulsion, Cooltempo, and Ensign imprints (trademarks).

Company history: EMI Records Ltd., since its incorporation, was a direct subsidiary of EMI Ltd., and as of 2011, was part of the recorded music division of EMI Group Ltd. (formerly EMI Group Plc). On November 11, 2011, Citigroup (ultimate owner of EMI Group Ltd.) signed an agreement to sell EMI Group Ltd. and its various worldwide companies to Vivendi SA. The transaction required certain regulatory approvals, which were obtained with conditions for certain divestments. The sale was completed on September 28, 2012.

As a condition of the sale to Vivendi SA (owner of Universal Music Group companies), regulatory authorities required certain EMI Group Ltd. record businesses to be divested. The Parlophone Label Group (PLG Holdco Ltd.), part of which this company is, was created for this divestment. On February 6, 2013, it was announced that a definitive agreement had been reached to sell The Parlophone Label Group to Warner Music Group, Inc. (WMG), and this transaction was completed on July 1, 2013. As of that date, Parlophone Records Ltd. became an indirect subsidiary of Warner Music Group, Inc.

In June 2016, the company sold its wholly-owned subsidiary Chrysalis Records Ltd. to Blue Raincoat Music Ltd.

Full legal entity name: Parlophone Records Limited

UK Company number: 00068172

Status: Active

Incorporated: December 10, 1900, as The Gramophone And Typewriter Ltd.

First name change: November 13, 1907, to The Gramophone Co. Ltd.

Second name change: July 1, 1973, to EMI Records Ltd.

Third name change: May 30, 2013 - this page

Immediate parent: WMG Finance Limited (UK Company number 08300633)

Ultimate parent: Access Industries LLC (parent of Warner Music Group Corp.)