Jugoton

Jugoton was founded in 1947 in Zagreb, Croatia (then Yugoslavia) when the record label Elektroton was nationalised. It started pressing microgroove records in 1957, and in 1961 first stereo records were produced. In 1963 the new, bigger factory was opened to meet the demands of the growing market, and production numbers soon went up to 30.000 records a day. In 1971 cassette production started, and by 1982 daily production raised to 20.000 copies. Although maintaning a frequent production of licensed releases, Jugoton lowered the number of foreign artists' releases in favor of Yugoslav authors as the years have passed, and had eight different editorial boards with numerous expert collaborators. The most known programme departments were Fonoars, Discothalia and Fonolingua. At its peak, Jugoton was the largest record label, pressing plant and chain record store in Yugoslavia, and it's notable for releasing some of the most important former Yugoslav pop and rock records.

After the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1991, Jugoton changed its name to Croatia Records.