The Gramophone Company Limited was a British phonograph manufacturer and record label, founded in April 1898 by Emil Berliner.

[5] Owen was acting as agent for Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone record, whilst Williams provided the finances.

[6] In 1898, Fred Gaisberg moved from the U.S. to London to set up the first disc recording studio in Europe; it was situated in Maiden Lane.

Among early artists he recorded was Syria Lamont, an Australian soprano whose single "Coming through the Rye" was one of the first ever issued.

[7] The Berliner Gramophone Company was hit the hardest with a lawsuit that involved a former employee, Frank Seaman.

Berliner had hired Seaman, part of The National Gramophone Company, to handle the distribution of record players and disk as an exclusive sales agent.

[16] In March 1931, Gramophone merged with the English Columbia Graphophone Company to form Electric and Musical Industries Ltd (EMI).