Sonopress

Sonopress is the CD and DVD replication business of Bertelsmann AG. Founded in the 1950s to supply vinyls for Bertelsmann's music club and music label businesses, the company has become the world's second biggest replicator of optical discs (CDs and DVDs). Much of that growth was overseen by long term CEO Uwe Swientek, who was at the company's helm for almost 30 years. Sonopress has factories and sales offices on all five continents, and predominately serves customers in the music, software and games industries. It is one of the four major units of Arvato AG, the media and communications services company that in turn is one of the six divisions of Bertelsmann. Accordingly Sonopress is occasionally also referred to as Arvato Storage Media, or, following a recent re-organization, Arvato Digital Services.