Helladisc S.A.

Helladisc was a Greek record company (now defunct) founded by Victoras Antippas (Βίκκο Αντίππας) in the late 60's and acted as the Greek distributor for Philips and Polydor.

On July 1, 1970 Helladisc acquired Greek Phonograph Record House. In 1971, Helladisc acquired the distribution rights of the Rolling Stones Records label in Greece. In 1972 Helladisc was purchased by Phonogram, becoming PolyGram Records S.A. (Greece) in 1982, after the merger of Philips and Polydor, which eventually became Universal Music Greece in the late '90s.

On April 11, 2011 Cobalt Music, owned by Victoras Antippas, purchased the business of Universal Music Greece and formed Cobalt Music - Helladisc S.A. (Greece) when Universal was required to divest assets after its acquisition of EMI. Universal retained Minos-EMI in Greece.

Also appears as "Ελλαδίσκ Α.Ε." or just "Helladisc".

Unlike originally thought, Helladisc did not operate a record manufacturing plant. Their records were pressed by Philips Greece who had four 12” and two 7” manual electric presses installed at the Philips light bulb factory in Athens. The country code "410" was used in the runouts. The '410' code was later passed on to the Polygram-owned factory G.P.I. S.A. and thus became known as "Polygram country code". Cutting and plating services were provided to Philips Greece by Polygram plants in Holland and Germany for international repertoire and most probably by EMI Greece for Helladisc's local reportoire.

Managing director was Νίκος Αντύπας and international pop manager was Γιάννης Πετρίδης.

For the publishing company please use Helladisc Ed.