Polydor Ltd. (UK)

Polydor Ltd., now a dormant company, was the former Polydor Records Ltd. renamed in 1972, and was the UK division of the German Polydor International GmbH. The company is usually mentioned as "Polydor Ltd. (UK)", or a similar form, for holding copyrights or mentioned as in (exclusively) licensed to..., it's not a label.
Also listed in the database as Polydor Ltd., or Polydor Ltd. (London).

Also credited as :
- Polydor (UK) Ltd
- Polydor UK Ltd.
- Polydor U.K. Ltd.
- Polydor Ltd. UK
- Polydor Ltd (UK)
- Polydor Ltd; (UK)
- Polydor Ltd. (U.K.)
- Polydor Limited UK
- Polydor Limited (UK)
- Polydor Limited (U.K.)

Legal entity history
First UK company number: 00536224
Incorporated: 28 July 1954 as Heliodor Record Company Limited
First name change: 25 September 1958 to Deutsche Grammophon (Great Britain) Ltd.
Second name change: 29 September 1965 to Polydor Records Ltd.
Third name change: 14 January 1972 to 'Polydor Limited'
Fourth name change: 2 September 1975 to Polygram Leisure Ltd
Fifth name change: 25 July 1997 to 'Makeback Limited'
Dissolved: 21 January 2020

Second UK company number: 00880146
Incorporated: 26 May 1966 as 'Polydor Records (Sales) Limited'
Name change: 2 September 1975 to 'Polydor Limited'
Immediate parent: 'Universal Music Leisure Limited'
Ultimate parent: 'Universal Music Group N.V.' (registered in Netherlands)