Parlophone Records Ltd.

Record (holding) company operating under this name since 30 May 2013. (Formerly known as EMI Records Ltd.).
Any release with this company is 30 May 2013 or later.
For the main label name, use Parlophone.
Sometimes listed as "Parlophone Records Limited"

Principal activities - sale and distribution of recorded music (license / copyright holder). since 2013 Parlophone Records Ltd. has been the immediate registered owner of the Parlophone, Regal, Stateside, Food, Zonophone, Compulsion, Cooltempo and Ensign imprints (trademarks)

Company history:
EMI Records Ltd., since incorporation was an immediate subsidiary of EMI Ltd., and as of 2011 formed part of the recorded music division of EMI Group Ltd. (Formerly known as EMI Group Plc) On the 11th Nov 2011, Citigroup (ultimate owner of EMI Group Ltd.) signed a definitive agreement to sell EMI Group Ltd., and its various worldwide operating companies to Vivendi SA. The transaction was subject to certain regulatory approvals. Regulatory approvals were obtained with the requirements of certain divestments, the sale completed on the 28th September 2012.

As a condition of the sale to Vivendi SA. (owner of the various companies that formed part of the Universal Music Group), the regulatory authorites required certain record businesses owned by EMI Group Ltd. to be divested. The Parlophone Label Group (PLG Holdco Ltd.), which the company forms part of was created for this divestment. On the 6th Feb 2013 it was announced that a definitive agreement had been entered into to sell the The Parlophone Label Group to the Warner Music Group, Inc. (Warner Music Group) and this transaction was completed on the 1st July 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: 10 December 1900 as The Gramophone And Typewriter Ltd.
First name change: 13 November 1907 to The Gramophone Co. Ltd.
Second name change: 1 July 1973 to EMI Records Ltd.
Third name change: 30 May 2013 - this page
Immediate parent: WMG Finance Limited (UK Company number 08300633)
Ultimate parent: Access Industries LLC (parent of Warner Music Group Corp.)