Toshiba EMI Ltd

Major Japanese record company active from 1973 - 2007. Please do not enter as a label! Also appears as : - Toshiba-EMI Ltd. - TOSHIBA-EMI LIMITED Principal activities - manufacturing, sound recording, distribution and publishing. Predominantly associated with Japanese releases of international EMI Records. 東芝EMI株式会社 - printed in Japanese mostly on back of obi or on packaging / inserts. In 1969 Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. and Capitol Industries, Inc. acquired 50% of Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd. and was renamed Toshiba EMI Ltd on 1 October, 1973. On the 3rd Oct 1994 Toshiba-EMI Ltd (TOEMI) becomes a subsidiary of Thorn Emi Plc after it increases it's shareholding in the company from 50% to 55% and gains a controlling interest. On June 2007, EMI Group Plc acquired all remaining shares of the company and Toshiba EMI Ltd. is subsequently renamed EMI Music Japan Inc.