Wikipedia, 30 May 2007: Polydor Records (Polydor Records is a record company currently headquartered in the UK founded in 1924, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group; originally an independent branch of Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft as an export label; in 1994 Polydor Records and Atlas Records merged into one company (Polydor-Atlas); in 1995 Polydor-Atlas became simply Polydor Records again)