• Thorn EMI was a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail. Created in October 1979, when Thorn Electrical Industries...
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    1979, EMI merged with Thorn Electrical Industries to create Thorn EMI. On 16 August 1996, Thorn EMI shareholders voted in favour of demerging Thorn from...
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  • Lumiere Pictures and Television, formerly known as EMI Films, Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, and Weintraub Entertainment Group, and later UGC DA, and...
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  • Thorn Electrical Industries Limited was a British electrical engineering company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange, but merged with EMI Group...
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    1979, EMI Ltd. merged with Thorn Electrical Industries to become Thorn EMI, whose shareholders voted on 16 August 1996 in favour of demerging Thorn from...
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    established. HBO ultimately selected Thorn EMI, and that November, Thorn EMI/HBO Video was formed to distribute Thorn EMI's existing selection of product, plus...
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  • The Thorn EMI Liberator was a laptop word processor, produced in the United Kingdom by Thorn EMI Datatech, then in Feltham Middlesex, primarily intended...
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  • merging with EMI in 1979 to create Thorn EMI, which itself demerged in the year 1996. In 1994, following a leveraged management buy-out, Thorn Lighting Ltd...
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  • [citation needed] Purchased by Thorn EMI in 1992, Sparrow's parent underwent a demerger four years later to become the EMI Group, and the label is now part...
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    EMI Classics was a record label founded by Thorn EMI in 1990 to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogues for internationally...
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    Records was sold to Thorn EMI in 1992. EMI was in turn taken over by Universal Music Group (UMG) in 2012 with UMG creating the Virgin EMI Records division...
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  • Thorn EMI Computer Software was a British video games software house set up in the early 1980s as part of the now-defunct British conglomerate Thorn EMI...
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  • an anti-human-trafficking organization Thorn Electrical Industries, an electrical engineering business Thorn EMI, a major British company involved in consumer...
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  • spot on Friday night prime time TV and by 1982 had won three national Thorn EMI Awards for TV news with the news features being broadcast nationally via...
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    1979, Thorn Electrical Industries merged with EMI after EMI's debacle with its invention of the CT Scanner, and the studios were renamed Thorn-EMI Elstree...
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  • sold to Radio Rentals, which had merged with Thorn Electrical Industries the previous year. Thorn EMI (as Thorn Electrical Industries had become) transferred...
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    Figgis. Within Thorn EMI, Dillons was placed in the HMV Group, which had been a division of Thorn EMI since 1986. EMI demerged from Thorn in August 1996...
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  • Laurentiis Productions and Bounty Productions Ltd. and distributed by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment in the UK, and Orion Pictures Corporation internationally...
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  • camps. The ownership acquisitions included a chain of 80 bingo clubs from Thorn EMI for £18.2 million in 1983, followed by another 30 by purchasing Zetters...
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    then simply as EMI in 1990, then part of EMI Records Group North America (ERG) in 1992, when the then-Thorn EMI acquired Virgin Records America. Since 2013...
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  • holiday camps. That year, Bass purchased a chain of 80 bingo clubs from Thorn EMI for £18.2 million. By 1988, Bass was down to 72 locations, but added another...
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    Ltd, prior to 1991 comprising Thorn EMI Software, Datasolve and the Corporate Management Services Division of Thorn EMI, for £95 million. Object Technology...
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  • purchase of the Thorn EMI assets, Cannon Films was severely stretched, and faced bankruptcy; in May 1987, Cannon sold its 2,000-title Thorn-EMI library for...
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  • Morons from Outer Space (category EMI Films films)
    Hodges, who agreed if EMI would make a script of his, Mid-Atlantic, and signed a two-picture deal. In December 1984, Thorn EMI offered investors the chance...
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  • Highlander (film) (category EMI Films films)
    than wearing the biker outfit he had instead. The budget was put up by Thorn EMI. When brought to Russell Mulcahy, the title was The Dark Knight. Filming...
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  • A Passage to India (film) (category EMI Films films)
    screenplay. Eventually the budget was raised from EMI, Columbia and HBO. In December 1984, Thorn EMI offered investors the chance to invest in several...
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  • Capitol Records (redirect from Capitol-EMI)
    EMI merged with Thorn Electrical Industries to form Thorn EMI and, due to business models increasingly diverging, on August 16, 1996, Thorn EMI's shareholders...
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    1989). "Thorn-EMI Gets SBK for $337 Million". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 29 December 2018. SHIVER, JUBE (9 August 1990). "Thorn EMI Buys...
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    Studios were demolished. It ended in 1984 when EMI merged with Thorn Electrical Industries to become Thorn EMI. Abbey Road's success in the scoring business...
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  • in Australia Thorn EMI in 1983 and by Universal in 1990. Betamax Released in the UK by Thorn EMI in 1982. Released in Australia Thorn EMI in 1983. DVD...
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