Olga Musik

Use this entry for company roles only; for the affiliated label please use Olga. Danish record company, renamed from Olga Production in August 1984 when Birger Hansen and Allan Hejlesen joined forces with Teddy Hoffbeck. Located in Ry, the company initially released local folk artists on the Olga label. Hejlesen and Hoffbeck left in 1988. Same year the company started distribution of classical music via bookshops, a novelty in Denmark assuring a network of 400 resellers including smaller cities with no record shops. In 1989 Olga Musik is appointed official distributor of Dacapo Records, eventually reaching international distribution in more than 50 countries via deals with Marco Polo, later Naxos. Hansen leaves the company in 2002 and it relocates to Copenhagen. In 2006 the company became part of Naxos Denmark. Name variation: Olga Music