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Columbia Music Entertainment
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| Columbia Music Entertainment | |
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| Parent company | Columbia Music Entertainment, Inc. |
| Founded | 1910 |
| Founder(s) | Fredrick W. Horn |
| Distributing label | Columbia Records (In Japan) |
| Genre(s) | various |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Official Website | http://columbia.jp/company/en/en_index.html |
Columbia Music Entertainment TYO: 6791 is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as the Nippon Phonograph Company. It affiliated itself with the Columbia Graphophone Company of the United Kingdom and adopted the standard UK Columbia trademarks in 1931. It changed its name in 1946 to Nippon Columbia Company Limited and adopted its present name in 2002. Until 2001, it also manufactured electronic products under the Denon brand name. Outside Japan, the company operates as the Savoy Label Group which releases recordings on the SLG, Savoy Jazz and Denon labels.
This record label is in no relation with Columbia Records outside Japan, part of the Sony BMG group in the United States, which operates in Japan as Sony Records.
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