Company type | Public subsidiary |
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Industry | Music and entertainment |
Genre | Music record label |
Founded | July 1998 |
Headquarters | 12F-3, No.88, Dunhua N.Road, Taipei , Republic of China (Taiwan) |
Area served | Taiwan |
Products | Planning, creation, and sales of music (CDs) and video (DVDs) software |
Parent | Avex Inc. (Avex Asia Pte. Ltd.) |
Website | www |
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Avex Taiwan is one of the "Big Four" record labels in Taiwan with Universal Music/EMI/What's Music International, Warner Music Taiwan/Gold Typhoon and Sony Music Taiwan. [4]
In September 2013, the company's consultant, Li Tian-do, announced that the company will withdraw from Chinese music segment, due to poor sales of Chinese music segment. [5]
Note: Singers are at the time of withdrawal from Chinese music division. Distributions are excluded.
note:+non-Avex Japan
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