The American Record Company
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Headquarters: New York, NY
Founder: Louis G. Sylvester
Founding: 1929
Closing: 1938
ARC resulted from a merger of Regal Records, Cameo, Banner Records, the US branch of Pathé and the Scranton Button Company, the parent company of Emerson Records, In December of 1931 Warner Bros. Records leased Brunswick Records, Vocalion and associated companies to ARC. ARC bought the Columbia Records catalogue in 1934. In December of 1938, the entire ARC complex was purchased from Consolidated Film for $700,000 by CBS. This allowed the rights to the Brunswick and Vocalion labels to return to Warner Bros. Records, which assigned the rights to those labels to Decca Records.