Berliner had also established "The Gramophone Company" in England as an offshoot of his "Deutsche Grammophon GmbH" in Germany.
Not quite Neil. The GramCo was a venture capital job. Berliner asked William Barry Owen to go over to England to sort it out. The owners of GramCo were Owen and his partner/investor Trevor Williams. Berliner himself (and his family) had the pressing plant in Germany that pressed all GramCo records up until ~1907/8. So GramCo was not an offshoot of DGG, it was the other way around.
See http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Gramophone_Co for a bit more info.
Also, danke vielmals fuer die information, Fixbutte! It's been a while since you and I last chatted. I know Berliner had established Deutsche Grammophon(which eventually evolved into Polygram) and also got the British outfit, The Gramophone Company up and running, but I was sure Berliner had a hand in Victor, somewhere.... No? Nonetheless, my remarks about the HMV trademark on the Victor label still stand. In 1929 when RCA bought the Victor plant, That's the point where the Dog & Gramophone trademark should've vanished from the label, to be replaced by RCA's "button" logo. The HMV name and TM should've returned to the USA/Canada ONLY through EMI's near-outright purchase of Capitol in 1955.
Something right, something wrong about Victor. Most importantly, Emile Berliner, born in Germany in 1851 but already migrated to the USA in 1870, was probably never an owner of Victor Talking Machine Co. which was actually founded by Eldridge R. Johnson, a former business partner of Berliner, in 1901. In 1927, Johnson sold his controlling interest in Victor for 23 million dollars to bankers Siegelman & Spyer who sold it to The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) two years later.
This label predates by roughly 2 years, the RCA acquisition of Victor Talking Machine Co. of Camden, NJ, USA. At this point in the company's history it was still owned(I believe) by its founder, German "entrepreneur", Emile Berliner. Berliner had also established "The Gramophone Company" in England as an offshoot of his "Deutsche Grammophon GmbH" in Germany. In 1927 Victor Talking Machine Co, was quite legitimately using the "Nipper"(Dog & Gramophone - HMV) trademark under licence from the British owner, as was Berliner's DGG. Two years later, when reps from RCA came sniffing around the Victor plant(RCA, back then, was little more than a subsidiary of General Electric, founded by Thomas A. Edison), they(RCA) wanted a larger factory to build radio sets. But when they saw what was being made at this Camden NJ plant.... That's the point where the Dog & Gramophone trademark should've vanished from the label, to be replaced by RCA's "button" logo. The HMV name and TM should've returned to the USA/Canada ONLY through EMI's near-outright purchase of Capitol in 1955.