Sono Cairo (Sout Alqahira, Sout Al Qahira, or Sawt al-Qahira:, "the sound of Cairo") is an Egyptian government owned multimedia company.[1]
Company history
Launched as a privately owned record company, it was taken over by the government in 1964,[2] and became Egypt's largest producer of phonograph records (LPs and 45s).[3] As of 2009 it is under the control of the Ministry of Information.[4]
Artist Mohamed Fawzi & Co established a factory for phonograph records on 30 April 1959 and turned into sout Alqahira (Voice of Cairo) Company for records on 6 January 1964. Then issued its decision, Mr. / Minister of Information No. 139 of 1977 established the sout alqahira company for audio and video (Sono Cairo Audio & Video Co.) as an Egyptian joint stock company, as a unit of the Radio and Television Union of the Ministry of Information.