EMI Italiana was a record label, it was an Italian offshoot of British Electric and Musical Industries, based in Milan. It was founded in 1931 as VCM and, in 1967 it was renamed EMI Italiana followed by EMI Music Italy in 1997 and, finally, EMI Records Italy Srl in 2013, when it was acquired by Universal Music Group.
History
VCM's birth
Since 1904, La voce del padrone records were published and distributed by SAIF (Società Anonima Italiana di Fonotipia), based in Milan.
The British record company was actually called Grammofono, but due to the famous painting by Francis Barraud "La voce del padrone" which portrays the little dog Nipper listening to a gramophone, used a trademark on the label, it soon took on this unofficial name.
Meanwhile, in 1912, Alfredo Bossi (one of the first Italian record companies) had founded the SNG (Società Nazionale del Grammofono) also based in Milan, which in the 1920s had signed an agreement with the British record label Columbia Graphophone Company