Sony Pictures Releasing GmbH

German company, operating under this name from 15 March 2005 to 29 September 2017.

Company 1 history:
ed: 1951 as 'Columbia Filmgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung' (Munich company number 6043)
Name change: 21 October 1988 to 'Columbia Tri-Star Filmgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung'
Parent: Sony Music Holdings GmbH from 21 June 1993
Name change: 16 September 1993 to 'Columbia TriStar Film GmbH'
Merged in: 'Columbia Tristar Home Video Verwaltungs GmbH' on 16 September 1993
Name change: 9 December 1997 to 'Columbia TriStar Film GmbH'
Relocated: 8 May 2000 to Berlin (company number HRB 75148)
Name change: 15 March 2005 - this page
Merged: 11 December 2007 into Sony Entertainment Holdings GmbH (see company below)

Company 2 history:
ed: 5 December 1990 as Sony Music Holdings GmbH (Frankfurt am Main company number HRB 32838)
Merged in: Sony Music Publishing GmbH on 19 February 1992
Name change: 12 January 1994 to Sony Entertainment Holdings GmbH
Merged in: Sony Classical GmbH on 10 November 1995
Relocated: 10 July 2002 to Berlin (company number HRB 85235)
Spinoff: 11 December 2007 transferred publishing assets to Mambo Musik Verlags und Produktionsgesellschaft Verwaltungs GmbH (Berlin company number HRB 86512)
Name change: 11 December 2007 - this page
Spinoff: 15 January 2008 transferred Home Entertainment assets to 'Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment GmbH' (Munich company HRB 128797)
Merged in: 'Oceanic Filmproduktion GmbH' (Munich company number HRB 40140) on 23 November 2011
Merged in: 'Sony Medienbeteiligungsgesellschaft mbH' (Berlin company number HRB 78675) on 29 November 2011
Name change: 29 September 2017 to 'Sony Pictures Entertainment Deutschland GmbH'