German record company, operating under this name from 4 April to 25 May 2016.
Please don't confuse with Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH, a separate company that was later merged into this one (before this Company was renamed 'Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH' after re-ing in Munich in May 2016).
Corporate chronology:
ed: 28 July 1970 (Cologne company number HRB 4418) as 'Sony Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung'
Name change: 12 June 1980 to Sony Deutschland GmbH
Acquired: 'interberg-electronic industrievertretungen gmbh' on 26 May 1989 (Berlin company number HRB 4273)
Acquired: 'Sony Europa GmbH' on 1 June 1995 (Cologne company number HRB 16614)
Acquired: 'Sony-WEGA Produktions GmbH' on 3 January 2005 (Stuttgart company number HRB 20918)
Acquired: 'Sony International (Europe) GmbH' on 3 January 2005 (Berlin company number HRB 73525)
Acquired: 'Sony Precision Technology Europe GmbH' on 17 August 2005 (Stuttgart company number HRB 20809)
Re-ed: 4 June 2007 in Berlin (company number HRB 107677)
Acquired: 'Sony Europe GmbH' on 17 June 2010 (Berlin company number HRB 73470)
Name change: 4 April 2016 to 'Sony Music Entertainment Services GmbH' - this page
Acquired: 'Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH' on 19 April 2016 (Munich company number HRB 86489)
Re-ed: 25 May 2016 in Munich as 'Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH' (company number HRB 225935)