Warner Music Czech Republic (formerly EMI Czech Republic and Parlophone Czech Republic) is a

record label A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produ ...

based in the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

. The company was founded under the name Monitor in 1990.

EMI EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records Ltd. or simply EMI) was a British Transnational corporation, transnational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in March 1 ...

purchased the label in 1994 and maintained it under the name Monitor/EMI s.r.o. Later, the label was renamed EMI Czech Republic s.r.o. It was sold to the

Warner Music Group Warner Music Group Corp. ( d.b.a. Warner Music Group, commonly abbreviated as WMG) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the " big three" recording companies and t ...

in 2013, with EMI labels, for £487 million.

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* {{Authority control 1990 establishments in Czechoslovakia Czech record labels EMI Warner Music labels