PRS stands for PolyGram Record Service/PolyGram Record Services. Please use this company only where the plant location cannot be identified.
Use the BAOI section for the UK Performing Rights Society PRS.
For the Austrian plant, please use label
For the Dutch plant, please use label
For the French plant, please use label (CD: Made in France by PRS)
For the German plants, please use label (between February 1978 and December 1985, and again between September 1991 until December 1992)
For the New Zealand plant, please use label
For the Spanish plant, please use label
For the UK plant, please use label
For Japan, please use P.R.S. K.K.
Established in 1978 and operating vinyl pressing, cassette duplicating and CD pressing plants. Originally taking over the Phonogram companies and plants operating in 21 countries, this was soon scaled down to a couple of plants only.
Between 1986 and 1991, the PRS plants in France and Germany were transferred to label.
Some PRS companies existed into the late 1990s, e.g. Japan and Australia, mainly for distribution.
PRS vinyl pressings can be identified by a 3-digit numeric code, identifying the country of the lacquer cut. This code was originally introduced around 1957 by Philips Phonografische Industrie in Baarn to identify the country where the lathes were operating. Known country codes (companies, plants):
022 - Asia
130 - America (Lacquer Cut At Sterling Sound or by Masterdisk)
150 - Australia (PolyGram Record Services Pty. Ltd. - all vinyl was cut and pressed in New Zealand)
170 - Belgium (vinyl was mostly cut and pressed in the Netherlands until 1980)
200 - Brazil (Polygram Discos Ltda., plant in Barra Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro)
230 - Canada (Lacquer Cut At Disques SNB Ltée.)
300 - Denmark (all vinyl was cut and pressed in Norway)
320 - Germany (PolyGram Record Service GmbH, plant Hannover)
340 - Finland (all vinyl was cut and pressed in Norway)
380 - France (PolyGram Record Service, plant Louviers)
410 - Greece (PolyGram Greece, plant G.P.I. S.A.)
420 - Great Britain (PolyGram Record Service Ltd., plant Walthamstow)
450 - Hungary (all vinyl was cut and pressed in the Netherlands)
470 - India (Lacquer Cut At - Music India Ltd., plant Bombay)
520 - Italy (PolyGram Italia srl, Lacquer Cut At - Phonoster)
561 - Kenya (East African Records, plant in Nairobi)
630 - Luxembourg (all vinyl was cut and pressed in the Netherlands)
670 - Netherlands (PolyGram Record Service B.V., plant Baarn)
700 - New Zealand (PolyGram Record Service Ltd., plant Miramar/Wellington)
701 - Nigeria (label, plant in Lagos)
710 - Norway (Lacquer Cut At - Rosenborg Studio)
720 - Austria (PolyGram Record Services Ges. mbH)
790 - Portugal (all vinyl was cut and pressed in Spain)
830 - Singapore (Lacquer Cut At - PolyGram Records Private Limited Singapore)
850 - Spain (PolyGram Servicios S.A., plant Madrid)
960 - South Africa (cooperation with Trutone)
970 - Sweden (all vinyl was cut and pressed in Norway)
980 - Switzerland (all vinyl was cut and pressed in Germany)
Other territories:
Congo/Zaire (all vinyl cut in the Netherlands and pressed by label, until 1979)
Ghana (1969 - 1982, all vinyl cut in the Netherlands and pressed in Accra, in conjunction with label).
Japan (vinyl cut and pressed by Victor Company Of Japan, Ltd. until 1988): runouts often show 111, 112, 121, 131, 141 etc. - these aren't country codes.