Sobelpress S.A.

In full: [b]Société belge de Pressage[/b]. Belgian record company and manufacturer founded in 1969 by [l=S.A. Fonior N.V.] (owned by Eugene Willy Pelgrims de Bigard) by merging three companies it had purchased in the preceding years: [l=Sobedi] ([i]So-[/i]), [l=S.A. Fabeldis] ([i]-bel-[/i]) and [l=Discopress] ([i]-press[/i]). At this time, these three plants together were good for 85% of the Belgian record production. Through [l=IPG] Pelgrims de Bigard owned 11.5% of Soblepress. In 1978 the company bought [l=Fonopers]. Eventually when Fonior went bankrupt in 1980, the remaining original Sobelpress plant in Groot-Bijgaarden was sold to [l=Druco] and became [l=Elpeco]. Fonopers survived the bankruptcy as an independent company.

General manager: [a=Georges Martens].