Precision Records & Tapes Limited

Aka PRT Records - UK record company and owner of the label PRT. Previously known as Pye Records Ltd. See also Precision Tapes Ltd., if presented that way on a release. Name variations: - Precision Records & Tapes Ltd - Precision Records and Tapes Ltd When the rights to the Pye name expired, the label changed its name to Pye/PRT (Precision Records & Tapes), around July 1980 and then to PRT only, effective 31 December 1980. Precision Records & Tapes Ltd. handled distribution for BBC Records and Tapes, Jive, and former Pye subsidiary Calibre Records (alternately known as Calibre + Plus!) as well as the UK distribution of Casablanca Records, Sugar Hill Records and Buddah Records. The pressing plant in Mitcham was operating under this name from July 1980 to May 1981. Precision Records & Tapes Ltd. ceased operations in late 1989. The label's back catalog was acquired in 1990 by Castle Communications. The Pye/PRT catalog is now owned by Universal Music Group unit Sanctuary Records. The company was dissolved on 11 December 2013. Full legal entity name: Precision Records And Tapes Limited UK Company number: 00572034 Incorporated: 26 September 1956 as Pye Records (Sales) Ltd. First name change: 1978 to Pye Records Ltd. Second name change: 1980 - this page Dissolved: 11 December 2013 Last parent: Meekland Limited (UK Company number 01605248) and Patrick Keith Drew