ToCo International is a label, tradename for ToCo Licensing N.V., one of the world's largest and leading independent brokers in music-rights. The company was set up on 1 April 1989 by Ton van den Bremer in Soest, Holland in 1989, later moved to Curaçao (The Dutch Antilles), headed by Jozef Zimmerman, and eventually to Hong Kong in 2002 (with ToCo Asia Ltd.)
ToCo Licensing N.V. has regional support offices around the globe:
ToCo Asia in Hong Kong, China - Mr.Carl Parker
ToCo Australia in Noosaville, Australia - Mr. Peter van den Bremer
ToCo Europe in Soest, The Netherlands - Mr. Marc de Raaff
ToCo Latino in Noosaville, Australia - Mr. Ton van den Bremer
ToCo Licensing N.V. is working with more than 100 record companies all over the world. ToCo acquires rights from many independent record- and production companies, artists and managers and exploits such repertoire abroad via the a.m. regional offices.
ToCo manages the repertoire coming from record- and / or production-companies like: A45 Music, ARS Productions, Berk Music, BIP Records, Byte Records, Cat Music, CNR Records, Concept, Dieffe, Digidance, Energy, Essential Dance Music, Freaky Records, Gun Records, Media Records Benelux, Mid-Town Records, Motiv8, Motivo, Movieplay, N.E.W.S., Partyhouse Records, Push Play, RdG Music, Roton, Spinnin' Records, TIME (2), Upside Records (2), White Villa, etc.
ToCo's specialities include styles such as: Euro House, Euro Pop, Progessive House, Progressive Trance, Techno, Trance, etc, from the concept such as: Club or Club Music and EuroDance. ToCo also handles a.o. Blues, Classical, Instrumental, Jazz, Oldies, Reggae, etc.
Furthermore ToCo is involved in the release planning, marketing and promotion of the products including the set-up of promotional tours in the various territories.
ToCo quarterly collects, reports and, most important, pays the royalties received from each individual country (or region) to the master-owners through a sophisticated computer program, especially developed for ToCo and unique in the world.
The Dutch office ToCo Europe was headed by Marc de Raaff and services Europe (including the former Eastern Europe Countries), the Near East (Egypt, Israel, Turkey) and Northern America (Canada and USA). Support-office ToCo España, was headed by Ronald van Swieten, assists on services for Western Europe and Northern America.
The Far East office in Hong Kong ToCo Asia covers all countries in the Middle East and the Far East and is headed by Carl Parker.
ToCo Australia, was run by Peter van den Bremer, is taking care of Australia plus New Zealand and Africa.
The Latin American office in Australia ToCo Latino is headed by Ton van den Bremer, covering all of the South- and Central- American countries. The ToCo Australia-office takes care of all administrative services for this region.
ToCo Licensing N.V. is also partner / co-owner of Dutch based, nine years old publishing company ToCo Music Publishing, which was headed by Mr Eric Boom. ToCo Music Publishing is a member of the Dutch mechanical- and performing rights society Buma / Stemra and is operating world-wide with various partners.
All ToCo brands and divisions are now consolidated under one office all run by Mr. Carl Parker from location in Thailand.
