| 1988 – |
Sale People Ltd formed, supplying HMV with overstocks and deletions for sales campaigns
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| 1990 – |
Cee Dee Sales Ltd formed, offering wholesale distribution of CD's to independent retailers
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| 1995 – |
Sale People Ltd are incorporated into Cee Dee Sales Ltd, who now supply the multiples and deal with exports
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| 2000 – |
Cee Dee Sales Ltd acquires Direct Distribution from Topic Records Ltd and becomes a distributor of third party labels. A move to bigger premises is marked with a name change to Proper Music Distribution Ltd
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| 2001 – |
Proper Music Distribution Ltd creates a dedicated Wholesale & Import dept specialising in the supply of unreleased or deleted UK albums from around the world
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| 2002 – |
Proper Music Distribution Ltd enters the Top 10 of UK album distributors, where we have remained ever since
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| 2004 – |
Huge expansion with the move to brand new, self-owned and self contained bespoke premises, including a massively expanded warehouse
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| 2005 – |
Jan 2005 marks Proper Music Distribution Ltd's most productive and best ever Midem conference
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| 2006 – |
February 2006 sees Proper Music Distribution Ltd nominated for "Best Distributor", joining Universal, EMI, Pinnacle and Vital as nominees. On this occasion, we're more than happy to be judged on the company we keep!
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| 2007 – |
Our first ever Top 40 albums are achieved with new releases from Alison Krauss & Richard Thompson
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| 2008 – |
After 18 months of development, Proper Music Distribution Ltd successfully launches it's digital distribution and marketing services in January 2008.
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| 2009 – |
In April we were voted “Distributor Of The Year” in the 2009 Music Week Awards. Lot's of major Independent labels join Proper for distribution, including: the likes of Charly, Peaceville, Park, BGO, Talking Elephant, World Circuit, Nettwerk, IRL, Snapper, ECM, Naive, Challenge, Rough Guides, Telarc and many more...
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| 2010 – |
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Proper Music Distribution Ltd sweeps the board after distributing EVERY winner in all the category's of the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
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| 2010 – |
After winning the award in 2009 Proper Music Distribution sucessfully retains the "Distributor Of The Year" award for the second year running at the 2010 Music Awards.
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| 2012 – |
Recent winners of the Best Distribution Team - Music Week Awards 2012, we also received this award consecutively in 2009 and 2010.
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