ABOUT US

We have been managing releases for international musicians, labels and brands since 1986. The Edel label group combines its reputable name and standing with an extensive and diverse repertoire. We have the expertise to launch new releases in virtually any musical genre. In the implementation of our holistic release strategies we combine the core expertise of a record label with the short communication channels offered by our versatile company. We offer comprehensive marketing and physical distribution through all trading channels while producing LPs, CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays from a single source. What’s more, our digital distribution partner Kontor New Media ensures that any kind of digital content is perfectly fine-tuned prior to release. We thus cover many areas in every market sector and regularly attain peak positions in the international charts.

earMUSIC is our international rock label. It provides stars of the classic, hard and alternative rock genres and renowned pop acts with wide-ranging expertise in the field of conventional label work, combined with innovative release and career strategies. With its constantly expanding promotion and marketing network, earMUSIC achieves worldwide recognition and success in the charts.

Our affiliate Kontor Records is an international club/dance and techno specialist. This top brand is noted worldwide for sourcing talent and establishing long-lasting commercial dance acts. Singles, albums and compilations have brought the label a series of physical and digital chart successes. With five million subscribers, Kontor.TV is one of the most successful online music platforms.

Adult listeners can enjoy the catalogues and new releases from the Berlin Classics and MPS Jazz labels. We devise marketing and product strategies to help established and new artists in both genres attain success in the national charts. As part of our arts roster, we are also a distribution partner to leading jazz labels, including ACT Music, enja, yellowbird and various classical and audio book labels.

Our Edel publishing group is one of the largest independent book providers in Germany. The diversity of our range has brought us a wide readership, an excellent commercial presence and a leading position in the cookbook market. Our popular non-fiction books regularly appear in the best-seller lists while our range of guidebooks is well represented on the market. The strength of the Edel publishing group is rooted in many years of expertise and the way we are set up as a media service provider. We offer a one-stop shop for design, production, physical and digital distribution and a direct link to our state-of-the-art printing house. With a sales team covering our own and third-party ranges, two digital imprints and our own corporate publishing division, we now have a distinct profile as a versatile publishing group.

Edel Books was founded as the first publishing house of Edel in 2007. Ever since then, Edel Books has managed the Moewig range and established its own brand as a provider of popular non-fiction books, including best sellers in the biography, media, arts and cookbook sectors.

ZS Verlag in Munich draws on 30 years of experience to produce its acclaimed range of books and digital products on culinary arts, health and lifestyle. Our motto – “live now!” – embodies the idea of enjoying the good things in life, being inspired and motivated, and getting help and support. We take up highly topical issues with great empathy for our audience to produce books and e-books by renowned authors that feature top-quality photography and graphics and have a great overall look and feel.
ZS Verlag is also responsible for books published under a long-term licence for Dr. Oetker Verlag in Bielefeld, for the Phaidon label’s successful cookery books and leading international titles and the Moewig label’s acknowledged Kochen & Geniessen series.

We have been producing home entertainment for the whole family for many years, cooperating with most major national and international licensers. We deliver all-round services to our partners, including cross-segmental marketing, physical distribution across all trade channels and one-stop production.

Edel Motion is a specialist in the TV series sector. The label focusses on the physical and digital marketing of renowned international crime drama releases, particularly in the whodunit and Nordic noir genres. Edel Motion furthermore procures films with full marketing rights and holds a leading position in the fitness video sector.

The label Pandastorm Pictures has been part of the Edel group since October 2015. Pandastorm markets feature films and series through all available channels, including cinema, home entertainment, VoD, TV sales, airline and covermount. Its range includes rom-coms, horror thrillers, children’s series, historical films by major directors and successful sci-fis.

Our subsidiary optimal media, based in Röbel/Müritz, has over 800 employees and operates at a production facility covering an area of over 100,000 m2. The media service provider is equipped with a pressing plant and printing house that make it one of the most modern and innovative businesses of its kind. It serves a clientele comprising all the renowned record companies, film producers and publishers. Edel and optimal work closely together to provide their customers with a unique service.

optimal’s pressing plant sees to every stage of the in-house production process, creating first-class CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and vinyl records: from pre-mastering and authoring through data media production to the creation of printed matter. To this end, optimal works in consultation with its customers to develop tailored packaging solutions, ranging from conventional packaging through editions to box sets.

The company’s printing house specialises in books and commercial printing. It creates excellent printed products, including image cultivation, attractive books and brochures, magazines, multimedia materials and packaging. optimal is competent and dedicated at every stage of its implementation, from devising the concept through the graphic design stage, printing and refinement to further processing. optimal was nominated “art printer of the year” in 2016.