Hispavox, S.A.

Spanish record company established on June 27th, 1953 by José Manuel Vidal Zapater. Licensee of Columbia Records to distribute North & South America Columbia product in Spain. It owned the Hispavox label and distributed in Spain many pop & jazz foreign labels (Apple Records, Asylum Records, CTI Records, Elektra, Impulse!, Reprise Records, Vanguard, Vogue, Warner Bros. Records...). They also worked as a manufacturer, pressing releases for labels like Belter. Impuesto de lujo Permiso Nº 3637. It had its own recording studios (Estudios Hispavox), pressing plant, offices and cassette duplication operating at Torrelaguna, 102, a printing plant (Imp. Hispavox S.A., at Marcenado, 22 - Madrid), later renamed Dirograf, S.A., and a publishing section (Ediciones Musicales Hispavox). The company and label were acquired by EMI in 1985, later by Parlophone and last one Warner Music Group. Some relevant executives before EMI acquisition: José Manuel Vidal Zapater (1953-1977), Luis Vidal Zapater, José Luis Gil from 1977 to 1984, Saul Tagarro 1984, Miguel Blasco, Jesús López, Javier del Moral and finally Miguel Ángel Recuenco to close the acquisition.