Danish record company also known as Skandinavisk Grammophon A/S, founded 1903 and renamed Skandinaviska Grammophon AB.
Skandinavisk Grammophon Aktieselskab was founded on 13 June 1903 by Emil Hartkopp (1882-1939), after whose death his son, Eugen Hartkopp (b. 1906), took over as director of the company. The company had general representation for Electric & Musical Industries Ltd., Hayes, Middlesex, England, known worldwide under the brand name: "His Master's Voice", which released records on the Columbia, Parlophone and Odeon labels.
On March 1st 1949, Skandinavisk Grammophon Aktieselskab established a gramophone record factory at Høffdingsvej 18, Valby, Copenhagen. Before that, all records had been pressed by The Gramophone Company, Limited (»His Master's Voice«), and Columbia Graphophone Company, Limited, Hayes, Middlesex, England, but from March 1949 the company's new production equipment allowed it to annually produce between 50 and 60% of the number of records that had previously been imported from England.
