headquarters toronto ontario canada key people steven brown ceo & john bell cfo owner jahm najafi najafi companies website http www.cinram.com cinram international is a toronto canada based manufacturer of pre recorded blu ray discs dvds cd audio cd roms vhs tapes and audio cassettes . 1 it is an affiliate of the arizona based najafi companies . 1 contents 1 history 1.1 bankruptcy 2 references 3 external links history edit cinram was established in 1969 in a montreal basement 1 by isidore philosophe and samuel sokoloff . 2 the company started manufacturing pre recorded eight track tapes and cassettes in 1969 in the basement of a commercial building in montreal . more than three decades later in 2003 the company completed a us 1.1 billion purchase of the music and movie manufacturing assets wea manufacturing of new york media giant time warner . also that year it bought the united states manufacturing operations of emi and later universal media & logistics france from universal music group . cinram opened its first cd plant in 1987 when records and cassettes were still dominant . in the 1990s the company started investing in manufacturing operations in europe and in 1997 when video store racks were still filled with vhs tapes cinram began producing dvds for movie studios . bankruptcy edit the company s fortunes began to decline with the rise of online streaming services . 1 in 2010 cinram lost its major contract for distributing warner bros. movies and its stock began to fall . 3 in 2012 the company sought bankruptcy protection from its creditors in the united states . 1 it was bought by private investment firm najafi companies . 1 in 2014 the company ended its manufacturing operations in toronto . 1 that year it bought jvc america from jvc kenwood . 4 in 2015 it shut its tuscaloosa alabama manufacturing plant . 4 on november 3 2015 paris based technicolor sa announced the acquisition of cinram the same month . references edit a b c d e f g gallant jacques 2014 07 25 . dvd and cd business faces challenges as physical media market declines . . the toronto star . issn 0319 0781 . retrieved 2015 12 01 . http investors.cinram.com faq.aspx a dead link dvd maker cinram strikes deal for private buyout . the globe and mail . retrieved 2015 12 01 . a b 100 workers to lose jobs as cinram shuts plant in tuscaloosa county . tuscaloosanews.com . retrieved 2015 12 01 . external links edit official website this article about a canadian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cinram & oldid 713556383 categories manufacturing companies of canadacompact disccanadian company stubshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from december 2015all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 april 2016 at 18 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view