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Gramophone Company
FoundedApril 1898; 126 years ago (1898-04)
Defunct31 March 1931; 93 years ago (1931-03-31)
SuccessorElectric and Musical Industries (EMI)
HeadquartersUnited Kingdom

The Gramophone Company Limited (The Gramophone Co. Ltd.), based in the United Kingdom and founded by Emil Berliner, was one of the early recording companies, the parent organisation for the His Master's Voice (HMV) label, and the European affiliate of the American Victor Talking Machine Company. Although the company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1931 to form Electric and Musical Industries Limited (EMI), its name "The Gramophone Company Limited" continued in the UK into the 1970s.

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