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12-634: PIAS or Pias may refer to: PIAS Group , a Belgian music company PIAS Recordings (Play It Again Sam), an independent record label based in Brussels and owned by the PIAS Entertainment Group PIAS Group, a Japanese cosmetic company Protein inhibitor of activated STAT , a regulator of cytokine signaling Philadelphia International Auto Show , an annual auto show held in

24-551: A 49 percent stake in PIAS. As part of the deal, the catalogues of several Universal artists were transferred to PIAS, including Jurassic 5 , DJ Shadow , The Dandy Warhols , Texas , and Eels . The PIAS-Universal alliance was further extended with the Universal Music's acquisition of the existing shareholding owned by the company's founders Kenny Gates and Michel Lambot, announced on 15 October 2024. On 8 August 2011, during

36-1015: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages PIAS Group In November 2022, Universal Music Group acquired 49% shareholding of the PIAS Group, then, in October 2024, acquiring the rest of shares owned by the company's founders Kenny Gates and Michel Lambot, effectively making PIAS a Universal Music Group subsidiary. [PIAS] Label Group (PIAS Recordings) division will continue to operate autonomously, while [Integral] (formerly [PIAS] Artist & Label Services) will be integrated with Universal's Virgin Music Group division. Within [PIAS] Recordings Michel Lambot and Kenny Gates met circa September 1981 at Michel's record store then called "Casablanca Moon", exclusively selling records from independent labels and they quickly became friends. In June 1982

48-550: Is the standard industry practice, for release in Europe, Australia and Japan. This in-house licensing division has an exclusive international marketing team with representation in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Australia and Japan. In February 2013 [PIAS] acquired Co-Op from Universal Music Group . In 2018, PIAS Cooperative was absorbed into PIAS Group , PIAS Cooperative brand

60-614: The 2011 riots in England , a Sony DADC warehouse in the London Borough of Enfield which also acted as PIAS' primary distribution centre was destroyed by fire. Most of PIAS' inventory was considered lost including records from the over 100 British independent labels which PIAS distributes. Several album and single releases were affected by the fire, including the Arctic Monkeys single " The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala ",

72-533: The Battles single "My Machines" and the Charlie Simpson album Young Pilgrim . The total stock loss was reported to be between 3.5 million and 25 million units. PIAS distributes and services over 100 independent labels including the following: Cooperative Music [PIAS] Cooperative , formerly Cooperative Music , often referred to as Co-Op , was a group of indie labels based in

84-615: The Coop-owned V2 Records label) from Universal Music Group , for a fee in the region of £500,000 forming the new business division [PIAS] Cooperative. The same year, [PIAS] acquired Rough Trade Distribution in the Benelux . [PIAS] and Universal Music entered into a strategic global alliance on 9 June 2021. The agreement will see UMG finance [PIAS] in addition to accessing the company's international distribution network. In November 2022, Universal Music Group purchased

96-578: The UK but that have offices around the world, owned by [PIAS] . Through their partner labels [PIAS] Cooperative worked with artists such as iamamiwhoami , Phoenix , Bloc Party , The Knife , Fleet Foxes , Prinzhorn Dance School , Citizens! , Interpol , The Black Keys and Mumford & Sons . In April 2005, Cooperative Music was set up by the V2 Music Group as a transnational marketing and distribution operation which licenses independent labels, as opposed to individual artist companies which

108-522: The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Places [ edit ] Pias (Cinfães) , Portugal Pias (Ferreira do Zêzere) , Portugal Pias (Lousada) , Portugal Pias (Monção) , Portugal Pias (Serpa) , Portugal See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "pias"  or "piases" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with Pias All pages with titles beginning with PIAS All pages with titles containing PIAS Pia (disambiguation) , for

120-483: The singular Play it again, Sam (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title PIAS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PIAS&oldid=1143764184 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

132-502: The store "Casablanca Moon" was closed down and they made plans to start an import company named "Play It Again Sam". Play It Again Sam started importing from the UK in October 1982 and were based in the basement of Kenny's parents' house in Brussels, Belgium. Michel and Kenny were then respectively 21 and 19 years old. The company was incorporated in March 1983 with a starting capital of €5000 and

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144-1003: The strategy rapidly became a "distributor" rather than an importer / wholesaler; that meant offering a full range of services to labels, such as promotion and marketing. The activities were then extended to production through the creation of their own label in 1984. In 1990, [PIAS] set up offices in Hilversum, Holland, then followed the takeover of Vital in 1993 (which was renamed [PIAS] UK in 2008). [PIAS] offices were set up in Paris and London in 1994, in Hamburg in 1995, in Madrid in 2000 and in New York in 2013 as well as two joint ventures called [PIAS] Nordic in Scandinavia and [PIAS] Australia. In early 2013, [PIAS] acquired Cooperative Music (and

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