Artone Holland

Dutch record company and manufacturer. The legal name of the company was Artone Gramophone N.V. Please use just Artone Gramofoonplaten if credited that way.

Note: The company at one point owned two pressing plants and one plating plant, none of which has a separate profile or can be clearly identified.

In the mid-1950s the brothers Willem and Casper Dingemans Slinger, two brothers from Dutch oil trading family, had started importing and distributing 78 RPM records from the United States through their s with local seller John Vis. The new operation started out in the Parklaan but quickly moved to a building in the Kruisstraat, the former hotel Funckler. In 1957 the brothers founded their own pressing plant under the name Argram Phonographische Industrie, manufacturing 7" records. The plant was built by a mister Koster and led by Dirk Moor, who was succeeded by CBS records throughout the Benelux countries.

The factory in the Nijverheidsweg in Haarlem originally did not have its own cutting studio nor galvanic department. Lacquers were initially cut in Cologne () by a certain mister Kliewer and metalparts were made by Harry Stoker.

In 1966 CBS bought a 50% share in Artone, and they started a printing company that year to make their own sleeves too. The first sleeve they printed was for Nancy Sinatra's "Like I do".

In this time Artone started to use the flipback covers, that were used till early 1968. Also in 1966 the (P) credits appears with bold P and the date below. This style was used till late 1967. Then the circled P came into use.

In 1971 CBS (Columbia) took over full ownership, and the Haarlem plant became Musical Masterpiece Society releases with AH on the label or in the runouts are pressed by Artone Holland.

Timeline for the pressing site:
Record Industry 1998-...