Private | |
Industry | Music, Artist management |
Founded | 2004 (Gold Label Entertainment) 2008 (Gold Typhoon Entertainment) |
Headquarters | Beijing, China |
Area served
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Macau CHN, Hong Kong CHN, China, Taiwan |
Key people
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Chiara Scaglia, Group CEO, CEO(China) Desmond Lee, Group COO, CEO(Hong Kong) Tony Hwang, General Manager (Taiwan) |
Number of employees
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150+ |
Parent | Warner Music Group |
Subsidiaries | Gold Typhoon Pictures Ltd Gold Typhoon Music Co.Ltd Gold Typhoon Beijing Ltd Famous Star Entertainment Berhad |
Website | Gold Typhoon official website |
Gold Typhoon Group is a Chinese entertainment company. Gold Label was founded in 2003 in Hong Kong, launched with the support of EMI, and acquired EMI Music Taiwan / EMI Music China (Typhoon Records) in 2008, reforming to Gold Typhoon. On 1 January 2011, it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Global Management Asia (PGMA) under the leadership of Chairman Louis Pong.
Gold Typhoon represents many Chinese and international artists, and has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Taipei and Hong Kong. In 2004, former Go East Entertainment CEO Paco Wong decided to not work with the parent company of Go East, Universal Group Hong Kong, but to instead work for EMI Hong Kong as they promised to launch a new label. Paco Wong was to have total control of the new label which became Gold Label Entertainment.
The company was acquired by Warner Music Group in April 2014.
In 2004, former Go East Entertainment CEO Paco Wong decided to not work with the parent company of Go East, Universal Group Hong Kong, but to instead work for EMI Hong Kong as they promised to launch a new label. Paco Wong was to have total control of the new label which became Gold Label Entertainment.
All products of Gold Label Entertainment share the same ISRC and bar-code system with EMI which include, "07243-", "00946-" and newly released "50999-". Gold Label under EMI has released the first DRM-free music downloading agreement with Hong Kong's local mobile brand CSL mobile. In addition to marketing and distribution, the company is also involved in artist and concert management.
EMI Music Hong Kong decided to delegate its local activities to Gold Label, leaving EMI to concentrate on international artists. Gold Label has also taken over EMI Hong Kong's local artists roster, which includes Kary Ng, Stephy Tang, Cookies, Ping Pung, Edmond Leung. With the launch of Capitol Music Taiwan by EMI, Gold Label is now working to market Taiwanese diva Jolin Tsai in Hong Kong. The label has signed local singers Miriam Yeung and Sandy Lam. Together, with re-shaping local stars Ronald Cheng, Leo Ku and Edmond Leung, Gold Label is now one of the largest music companies in Hong Kong.