Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group
Overview
Formerly	Decca Records (USA business) (1934–1971) MCA Records (1971–1989) MCA Music Entertainment Group (1989–1996)
Company Type	Public
Founded	September 1934 (American branch of Decca Records) 1972 (as MCA Records) December 9, 1996 (Current form)
Headquarters	Hilversum, Netherlands (corporate) Santa Monica, California, U.S. (operational)
Number of Employees	8,319 (2018)
Area Served	Worldwide (except for Russia & Belarus)
Key People	Lucian Grainge (chairman & CEO) Sherry Lansing (chairwoman of the board)
Owner	Bolloré family (28%) (18% directly and 10% through Vivendi) Tencent (20%) Pershing Square Holdings (10%)
Divisions	Various (ex. Capital Music Group, Republic Records, Virgin Music Group)

Universal Music Group (also known as Universal Music and in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi. Its Brazilian counterpart distributed the 2005 version of Hits Vegetais Vol. 1.