Ministry of Sound has signed an exclusive and long-lasting contract with Arvato Replication to produce discs for the global market.
Ministry, the UK’s fourth biggest record company, was established in the early 1990s and has achieved 19 No.1 Single-Chart hits so far with 55 million albums sold.
“We are delighted to have won with Ministry of Sound one of the world’s most prestigious labels as our customer”, says Jörg Pollmeyer, vice president of sales at arvato Replication.
“The contract includes the production of all disc releases, including print products and all packaging.”
With this contract Ministry of Sound brings together different manufacturing steps, which were previously separate.
arvato Replication performs all services from the replication to the production of printed materials and also arranging the products to be ready for dispatch.
“With arvato Replication we’ve chosen an experienced and renowned partner that combines all the services of the product manufacturing under one roof”, says Eddie Jones, sales director at Ministry of Sound. The full-process mapping via arvato Replication as a central partner simplifies job management and coordination for future releases as well as for songs from the back catalog.
“To attract attention for its compilations Ministry of Sound still relies on the physical product,” explains Magnus Rosenthal, key account manager at arvato Replication, referring to the substantial volumes of the contract.
Orders are put together as one consignment and shipped globally via Ministry of Sound’s own distribution center as well as several other retailers.
The news comes six months after MBW revealed that Arvato was quitting the UK music business, having lost the accounts of the major labels and [PIAS].
[Pictured: Eddie Jones (MoS), Jörg Pollmeyer (arvato), Gregory Reeve (MoS) and Jörg Dickenhorst (arvato)]Music Business Worldwide
