Arvato Entertainment

Arvato Entertainment, formerly Sonopress, is the CD and DVD replication business of Bertelsmann AG. Founded in 1958 to supply gramophone record for Bertelsmann's music club and music label businesses, Sonopress became the world's second biggest replicator of optical discs (CDs and DVDs). Much of that growth was overseen by long term CEO Uwe Swientek, who was at the company's helm for almost 30 years. Sonopress has factories and sales offices on all five continents, and predominantly serves customers in the music, software, and games industries.

It is one of the four major units of Arvato AG, the media and communications services company that in turn is one of the six divisions of Bertelsmann. Accordingly, Sonopress was occasionally also referred to as Arvato Storage Media, or, following a recent re-organization, Arvato Digital Services. In 2008, to celebrate 50 years in the business, the name Sonopress was dropped and replaced by Arvato Digital Services.^[1]

In 2013, Arvato Digital Services north america spun off the replication business into Arvato Entertainment.

In 2015, arvato Entertainment changed it name to Sonopress and is now doing business under its former name.

References

↑ Timeline - Arvato Digital Services

External links

Official website

Bertelsmann

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arvato

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Other assets

BMG Rights Management
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↑ joint venture with Tele München Fernseh, Heinrich Bauer Verlag and Burda.
↑ joint venture with The Walt Disney Company.
↑ joint venture with Axel Springer, Heinrich Bauer Verlag, Lühmanndruck Harburger Zeitungsgesellschaft and Morgenpost Verlag.
↑ joint venture with Rheinland-Pfälzische Rundfunk.
↑ joint venture with Amperwelle Studio München Programmanbietergesellschaft, Axel Springer AG, Hubert Burda Media, Studio Gong, Mediengesellschaft der bayerischen Tageszeitungen für Kabelkommunikation, Medienpool and Radio Bavaria Rundfunkprogrammgesellschaft
1 2 joint venture with TF1 Group.
↑ joint venture with AB Groupe.
↑ joint venture with L'Équipe.
1 2 3 joint venture with TVI, LEMAIRE ELECTRONICS and Rossel.

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