Phonogram Inc.

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Phonogram Inc.

Founded	1970
Founder	Philips Records and Deutsche Grammophon
Successor	PolyGram / Polydor / Fontana Records
Headquarters	Netherlands
Parent	PolyGram

Phonogram Incorporated was started in 1970 as a successor to Philips Phonographic Industries, a unit of the Grammophon-Philips Group (GPG), a joint venture of Philips N.V. of the Netherlands and Siemens A.G. of Germany.

Phonogram was the name of a parent company that owned and or distributed many different record labels. Phonogram was never a record label as such, but a holding company for labels which included Philips, Fontana, Vertigo and Mercury and many other licensed labels.