Rough Trade Distribution GmbH

Company legally operating from 30 December 2003 to 10 August 2023, as a subsidiary of Arvato Services. Located in Herne-Wanne and later Cologne (from November 2009).

See also RTD.

Distribution history:
From 1981 until June 1999, Rough Trade Distribution (not a legal entity) was the distribution arm for/part of Rough Trade Records GmbH.
Called Zomba Distribution from July 1999 until 2002.
Called Rough Trade Arvato from 2002 until 2004.

Corporate chronology:
ed: 23 June 1981 as 'Kos Trading Warenhandelsgesellschaft GmbH' in Herne-Wanne (company number HRB 1284)
Name change: 29 September 1983 to Rough Trade Records Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
Re-ed: 9 November 1984 in Herne (company number HRB 459)
Re-ed: 21 August 1991 as Rough Trade Records GmbH in Herne-Wanne (company number HRB 1584)
Name change: 27 July 1999 to Zomba Records GmbH
Name change: 30 December 2003 to 'Rough Trade Distribution GmbH' - this page
Immediate parent: from 18 January 2005 to 7 April 2008 'Lambourne Productions GmbH' (Herne company number HRB 9854)
Relocated: 4 November 2009 to Cologne (company number HRB 67580)
Immediate parent: from 4 November 2009 Groove Attack GmbH (Cologne company number HRB 34178)
Merged: 10 August 2023 into Groove Attack GmbH