Sobelpress S.A.

In full: Société belge de Pressage. Belgian record company and manufacturer founded in 1969 by S.A. Fonior N.V. (owned by Eugene Willy Pelgrims de Bigard) by merging three companies it had purchased in the preceding years: Sobedi (So-), S.A. Fabeldis (-bel-) and Discopress (-press). At this time, these three plants together were good for 85% of the Belgian record production. Through IPG Pelgrims de Bigard owned 11.5% of Soblepress. In 1978 the company bought Fonopers. Eventually when Fonior went bankrupt in 1980, the remaining original Sobelpress plant in Groot-Bijgaarden was sold to Druco and became Elpeco. Fonopers survived the bankruptcy as an independent company. General manager: Georges Martens.