Sonopress (known as Arvato Entertainment from 2008-2015), is the CD and

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replication business of

Bertelsmann Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA () is a German private multinational conglomerate corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of the world's largest media conglomerates, and is also active in the service sector and ...

. Founded in 1958 to supply

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for

's music club and

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businesses, Sonopress became the world's second biggest replicator of optical discs (CDs and DVDs). Much of that growth was overseen by long term

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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 Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

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, and

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. It was one of the four major units of Arvato AG, the

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and

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services company that in turn is one of the six divisions of Bertelsmann. Accordingly, Sonopress was occasionally referred to as Arvato Storage Media. In 2008, to celebrate 50 years in the business, the name Sonopress was dropped and replaced by Arvato Digital Services. In Jan 7, 2013, Arvato Digital Services North America spun off the replication business into Arvato Entertainment LLC. In 2015, Arvato Entertainment was re-organized and is now doing business under its former name (i.e. Sonopress) within the

Bertelsmann Printing Group The Bertelsmann Printing Group is a German group of companies in the printing industry with headquarters in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was established in 2016 and is the market leader in Europe among offset and gravure printing com ...

division.

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