Takeover Entertainment

Takeover Entertainment Ltd.

Type	Private ownership, Private limited company
Industry	Music industry & Fashion
Genre	Hip hop, alternative hip hop, alternative rock, R&B, soul, neo soul, electronic, post-dubstep, dubstep, grime
Founded	9 February 2006
Founder	Archie Lamb & Jack Foster
Headquarters	64 New Cavendish Street London United Kingdom W1G 8TB
Area served	Asia United Kingdom European Union United States
Key people	Kwasi Danquah III (Chairman and A&R executive) Archie Lamb (President and CEO) Jack Foster (Vice President, COO and CFO)
Products	Entertainment
Total assets	£45.7 million (FY 2010) €50.8 million (FY 2010) US$73.8 million (FY 2010)
Owner	Takeover Group
Number of employees	16
Divisions	Star in the Hood
Subsidiaries	Takeover/Cloud 9 Takeover Roc Nation

Takeover Entertainment is a British entertainment company. The organization operates an independent record label, talent agency, a music production company, as well as its own music publishing house. The company was founded in 2006 and is run by Kwasi Danquah III (known by his pseudonym Tinchy Stryder), Archie Lamb and Jack Foster. It specializes in producing R&B, hip hop and electronic music.

The first person to be signed to Takeover Entertainment was English rapper and entrepreneur Tinchy Stryder. Success followed by Stryder becoming the biggest selling UK male artist of 2009 with his second studio album, Catch 22, which spawned hits, including "Take Me Back", and #1's "Never Leave You", and the N-Dubz collaboration "Number 1".

The company was formed on Thursday 9 February 2006 by Archie Lamb and Jack Foster. Then part-time promoters, the duo put on nightclubs in the United Kingdom that featured artists including Roll Deep and Lethal Bizzle. Upon meeting Danquah in 2006 they branched out into management, and signed him to a record deal. The Star in the Hood clothing company was founded in the same year.

In 2008 Takeover Entertainment, signed a joint venture with EMI Music Publishing to create the global music publishing company Takeover/Cloud 9, and enabled Takeover Entertainment to sign artists and songwriters and develop the signed artists and songwriters in partnership with EMI.