Sobedi

Société belge du Disque: Belgian record company and manufacturer, owned by Fernand Janssens and located in Brussels (main office and recording studio) and Ghent (pressing, plating and printing plant).

In 1935 Sobedi took over the pressing and printing plant at the Waalse Krook in Ghent which had formerly belonged to Georges Martens stayed on as executive manager. The last-known reference to the pressing and printing plant as a separate entity is from 1973.

The recording studio at the Boulevard Lemonnier was founded in 1945. It was equipped with a Universal Microphone Company cutting lathe, the technician was Pierre Neirinckx as chief engineer.

Sobedi's house label for own recordings was Cobedi S.A. (Consortium belge du Disque).

After World War II Janssens also set up an office in Léopoldville (Belgian Congo). Sobedi technicians toured the Congo in order to record local musicians for releases on Olympia's Loningisa providing them with recording equipment and pressing their releases in Belgium. The Léopoldville office was closed shortly before Congolese independence in 1960.

Sobedi was represented in Canada by Pathé Marconi.