WEA Musik GmbH

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WEA Musik GmbH was founded on June 13, 1972, ed legally in West on November 10, 1972, and started operations in January 1973 as the successor to Kinney Music GmbH. It was located in Hamburg and distributed the WEA International labels (Warner Bros., Elektra, Atlantic, etc.).

Labels which have been distributed and - from 1977 on - manufactured by WEA Musik GmbH:
Westbound Records (LC 0121) (from 1977 on)

After the merger with ATARI Electronikvertriebs GmbH on 25 March 1986, the new company was called Warner Music GmbH.

Corporate chronology:
ed: 20 April 1971 as 'Kinney Music Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung' in Munich (company number HRB 43332)
Managing Director: Siegfried E. Loch from 19 May 1971 to 24 March 1983
Relocated: 8 December 1971 to Hamburg (company number HRB 14429)
'WEA Musik Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung' was ed on 10 November 1972 as the successor of Kinney Music GmbH
Merged: 25 March 1986 into 'ATARI Elektronikvertriebs GmbH' and renamed 'WEA Musik GmbH Neue Medien und Elektronikvertrieb' (Hamburg company HRB 25476)