Polton was a music
record label
"Big Three" music labels
A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of Sound recording and reproduction, music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a Music publisher, ...
, established in
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
in 1983. It was one of the three (together with
Savitor and Arston) better known
Polonia-assisted Polish record labels.
[Hirek Wrona, ''Fonografia w komunizmie'', In: "Beats of Freedom - Zew wolności". Warszawa: Narodowe Centrum Kultury, 2010, p. 43. .]
In 1990-1991 it was acquiredby
Starstream Communications Group"Starstream Commun Group Inc acquires remaining interest in PZ Polton Ltd from ScanSource Inc"
/ref> and eventually by Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group Corp., commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational entertainment and record label Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the "Record label#M ...
(Polton / Warner Music Poland
Warner Music Poland Sp. z o.o., is a Polish subsidiary of Warner Music Group, it was founded in 1994 in Warsaw. The label's CEO is Piotr Kabaj.
The label started with a catalog of Polish national record label Polton which was bought from Starst ...
), the latter eventually closed its office in Poland.
References
Polish record labels
Record labels established in 1983
1983 establishments in Poland
State-owned record labels
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