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[i]Use this entry for company roles only; for the affiliated label please use [l=Olga].[/i] Danish record company, renamed from [l=Olga Production] in August 1984 when [a=Birger Hansen] and Allan Hejlesen joined forces with [a=Teddy Hoffbeck]. Located in Ry, the company initially released local folk artists on the [l=Olga] label. Hejlesen and Hoffbeck left in 1988. Same year the company started distribution of classical music via bookshops, a novelty in Denmark assuring a network of 400 resellers including smaller cities with no record shops. In 1989 Olga Musik is appointed official distributor of [l=Dacapo Records], eventually reaching international distribution in more than 50 countries via deals with [l=Marco Polo], later [l=Naxos]. Hansen leaves the company in 2002 and it relocates to Copenhagen. In 2006 the company became part of [l=Naxos Denmark]. Name variation: Olga Music