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Pye Ltd.

UK electronics company founded in 1896 in Cambridge
Organization business Q7262958
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Pye Ltd.

Summary

Pye Ltd. is a business[1]. Pye Ltd. ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (169 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pye Ltd. is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • Pye Ltd.'s instance of is recorded as business[4].
  • Pye Ltd.'s founder is recorded as William George Pye[5].
  • Pye Ltd. was followed by Sepura[6].
  • Pye Ltd.'s child organization or unit is recorded as Pye Records Ltd.[7].
  • Pye Ltd.'s child organization or unit is recorded as Pye Nixa Records[8].
  • Pye Ltd.'s Commons category is recorded as Pye Ltd.[9].
  • Pye Ltd.'s industry is recorded as electronics[10].
  • 1896 marks the founding of Pye Ltd.[11].
  • Pye Ltd. was dissolved in 1988[12].
  • Pye Ltd.'s product or material produced is recorded as television[13].
  • Pye Ltd.'s legal form is recorded as private company limited by shares[14].
  • Pye Ltd.'s owner of is recorded as Nixa Record Co. Ltd.[15].
  • Pye Ltd.'s owner of is recorded as Polygon Record Co. Ltd.[16].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

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  • Type: Holding[17]

  • Country: GB[18]

  • Began / founded: 1896[19]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1988[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 47b43075-991a-4cc9-ae59-8d7e39d26cbc[21]

Body

Founding

Pye Ltd.'s founder is recorded as William George Pye[5]. 1896 marks the founding of Pye Ltd.[11].

Identity

Pye Ltd. was followed by Sepura[6].

Operations

Subsidiaries include Pye Records Ltd.[7], a record company[22], in United Kingdom[23], founded in 1959[24], headquartered in Cambridge[25] and Pye Nixa Records[8], a record company[26], in United Kingdom[27], founded in 1956[28].

Industry

Pye Ltd.'s industry is recorded as electronics[10].

Ownership

Pye Ltd.'s product or material produced is recorded as television[13].

Dissolution

Pye Ltd. was dissolved in 1988[12].

Why It Matters

Pye Ltd. ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (169 views/month).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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