PolyGram Entertainment

PolyGram Entertainment N.V. is an entertainment company and major music record label based in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1962 as the Grammophon-Philips Group by Dutch corporation Philips and German corporation Siemens, to be a holding for their record companies, and was renamed "PolyGram" in 1972. The name was chosen to reflect the Siemens interest Polydor Records and the Philips interest Phonogram Records. The company traced its origins through Deutsche Grammophon back to the inventor of the flat disc gramophone, Emil Berliner.

Later on, PolyGram acquired A&M Records, Island Records, Def Jam Recordings, and Motown, growing into one of the "Big Five" record labels, of which it is the smallest, behind Warner Music Group.