Odeon Records was a record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 founded in 1903 by Max Straus and Heinrich Zuntz of the International Talking Machine Company in Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

Germany

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. It was named after a famous theatre in Paris

Paris

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, whose classical dome appears on the Odeon record label.
Straus and Zuntz bought from Carl Lindström the company that he had founded in 1897. They transformed the Lindström enterprise into a public company, the Carl Lindström A.G.