UPC Records

Universal Programmes Corporation ( Source - And the World Listened: The Biography of Captain Leonard F. Plugge - A Pioneer of Commercial Radio Hardcover – 28 Feb. 2008 by Keith Wallis) Had been a subsidiary of International Broadcasting Company, but after damage to that company's Radio Normandie Studios and Transmitter in France during WW2 the company renamed the 35 Portland Place London studios as UPC, being renamed in May 1952 as IBC when Allen Stagg joined the company from Radio Luxembourg. Tape Boxes bearing both UPC and IBC Boxes can be found containing finished or other tapes for the use of the independent engineers and producers that used the studio facilities and also UPC runout prefixes exist on some Acetates and Metals created at or for I.B.C Studios. Distributed (and Pressed by) CBS Formed As A Commercial Label in 1969 for releases from 1970 CashBox-1969-12-13 Page 48 "IBC The Internationally Known London recording studio, is to start its own label to be known as UPC Records. Heading the venture will be Eddie Tre-Vett, and plans have been laid following a year's market research into current production techniques and trading trends. UPC will concentrate on quality rather than quantity and will commence releases early next year upon completion of a pressing and distribution deal with a major international company. Tre-Vett revealed that UPC will also be in the market for leasing deals and shared expense projects as well as producing its own discs" Eddie Tre-Vett left toward the end of 1970 and Cash Box reported in Feb 1971 that the label would be suspended but still promote the back catalogue