Mercury Record Manufacturing Company

Richmond, Indiana, USA, pressing plant, known prior to 1966 as Richmond Record Pressings, Inc., this plant operated up to late 1969 when the equipment was auctioned off on December 9. Replaced by a new facility, Philips Recording Company, Inc., constructed in 1969 and opened in 1970, which was renamed PRC Recording Company, Richmond, IN, after being purchased by the Hainick Group in 1972. In 1990, PRC was sold to Cinram. NOTE: This entry is only to be used for LP and 45 pressings from this plant as pressed between 1966 and 1969 on Mercury and its sublabels (i.e., Philips, Smash Records (4), Fontana), which are distinguished by a small hand-etched 'MR' in the deadwax (and, by the later '60s, a 2.75" diameter pressing ring in the label area of LPs). Some deep-catalogue albums from the early part of this period have a small etched 'MR' on one side and an 'RR' from Richmond Record Pressings days on the other.