Carl Lindström A.G. was a global record company founded in 1893 and based in Berlin, Germany.

Okeh in the U.S. survived the war intact because its president, Otto Heinemann, was an American citizen.

[1] Among Parlophone's later claims to fame, it was the label for UK releases by The Beatles and Peter Sellers.

In 1931, Columbia Graphophone merged with the Gramophone Company to form EMI with the labels retaining their identities.

Parlophone became a major powerhouse in the EMI portfolio of labels thanks to the company's signing in 1962 of The Beatles.