Deluxe was a brand used by various manufacturing plants owned by the content company Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, which emerged from a film processing lab established in 1915.
The Deluxe name was first used for manufacturing purposes in May 1998 when Rank Video Services America, a VHS replicator with activities in Little Rock, AR and Northbrook, IL was renamed Deluxe Video Services. The company ran one or more manufacturing plants in Illinois, which were largely consolidated in 2000. (The Little Rock, AR plant added DVD manufacturing equipment in 2003.) Another manufacturing plant, in Carson, CA, was acquired from Pioneer in 2000 (label).
In August 2002, Deluxe Video Services (by then a child company of The Rank Group plc, London), which had until then only owned plants in the US (AR, CA, IL), purchased an 80% interest in label, the US and European DVD manufacturing operations of Taiwan-based Ritek Corp, thus becoming Deluxe Global Media Services. This acquisition included a manufacturing plant in Ontario, CA, USA.
In June 2003, Deluxe Global Media Services purchased Disctronics, acquiring CD and DVD replication facilities in the UK (Blackburn, Southwater), France (Albi) and Italy (Milan). The company offered complete in-house disc services as well as audio cassette duplication, fulfilment, and online e-commerce services.
In 2004, DVD replication machinery was transferred from California to Little Rock, AR, and two plants in California (Carson and Ontario) were closed.
In 2005, Deluxe's parent company The Rank Group began looking to sell off its Deluxe Global Media Services assets, but struggled to find a single buyer. Instead, individual assets were eventually sold to separate purchasers:
· a former Disctronics plant in Blackburn, UK was sold to Entertainment Distribution Company LLC (EDC) and thus renamed EDC Blackburn Ltd (July 2006)
· another former Disctronics manufacturing plant in Southwater, UK was sold to Sony DADC along with a distribution centre in Enfield (July 2006)
· label, the DVD manufacturing facility in Little Rock, AR, USA, was sold to ODS Optical Disc Service Inc. (ODS Optical Disc Service) (January 2007)
For bootleg discs which replicate a Deluxe matrix, please see label.
Deluxe's UK operation;
For mastering SID codes: IFPI L502, L503, L506, L507, L508. Mould SID codes: IFPI 87**. See label.
For mastering SID codes: IFPI L135, L136. Mould SID codes: IFPI 04**, 87**. See label