Polygram

PolyGram was a Dutch entertainment company, a division of Seagram. It started as a major record label recording company founded by Philips and Siemens as a holding company for their music interests in 1972. The name was chosen to reflect the Siemens interest Polydor Records and the Philips interest Phonogram Records The company traced its origins through Deutsche Grammophon back to the inventor of the flat disk gramophone, Emil Berliner. Later on, PolyGram expanded into the largest global entertainment company, creating film and television divisions.  In May 1998, it was sold to Seagram which owned MCA Inc. .PolyGram was merged into Universal Music Group,