Being Inc.

Being Inc.
株式会社ビーイング
Private KK
Industry Music, artist development, record production, marketing, audio engineering
Founded November 1, 1978
Founder Daiko Nagato
Headquarters Thomas Building, 5-2-2 Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan[1]
Key people
Toshinori Masuda (President & CEO)
Revenue 1,000,000 yen
Subsidiaries B-Gram Records
Big M.F
Giza Studio
Northern Music
Pure Infinity
Vermillion Records
Weedz
Zain Records
Zazzy
Website www.beinggiza.com

Being Incorporated (株式会社ビーイング Kabushiki Gaisha Beingu), d.b.a. Being Giza Group, is a Japanese private entertainment conglomerate based in Tokyo's Roppongi district, founded on November 1, 1978 by musician Daiko Nagato.[1] Being Inc. and its subsidiaries are the main supplier of theme music for the anime series Detective Conan.[2] As of May 2011, 77 theme tunes have been supplied to the anime by Being Inc.

Labels

Nowadays production-based record company are no longer rare thing, however Being has established a dedicated record company and label in quick succession since 1991. Label companies under the label companies that are part of Being Inc. are also subsequently owned by Being Inc. It includes indies labels as well.[3]

Independent labels

Indies labels

Former labels

Other subsidiaries

Being Inc. owns the acting agent and talent management company White Dream.[12]

Controversy

Last June 2001, Being and its subsidiary B+U+M[13] (now merged into Vermillion Records) was found to have failed to declare 840 million yen in income.[14] They were acquitted after the investigation.[13]

Record label affiliation artists

Being

Selling agency:Distribution agency:Being Incorporated

Vermillion Records

Northern music

Since October 2011 Being has absorbed Northern Music

B-Gram Records

Being

Zain Records

Giza studio

Distribution agency:Giza Incorporated

J-Pop

O-Town Jazz

D-GO

Former record label affiliation artists

Being

Northern Music

B-Gram Records

Amemura O-town Records

Zain Records

Giza studio

J-Pop

D-GO

Creators

Lyricists, composers and arrangers has enrolled into a large number. Official site has been established to describe list in alphabetical order Being Music Creators.[15]

lyricist

etc.

composers

etc.

arrangers

etc.

References

  1. 1 2 "Being Inc. "About us"". Being Inc. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  2. "Detective Conan theme music" (in Japanese). Being Inc. Archived from the original on 19 June 2011. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  3. Being labels (in Japanese) http://www.beinggiza.com/en/label.html
  4. http://beinggiza.com/zain.html
  5. http://www.bz-vermillion.com/
  6. http://www.giza.co.jp/
  7. http://beinggiza.com/b-gram.html
  8. http://northernmusic.jp/
  9. http://d-go-osaka.jp/
  10. Indies labels (in Japanese) http://www.beinggiza.com/indies.html
  11. http://www.beinggiza.com/pureinfinity.html
  12. "White Dream links" (in Japanese). White Dream. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  13. 1 2 "B'z production company failed to declare 840 mil. yen income.". The Free Library. 2001-07-02. Retrieved 2012-08-28.
  14. "Entertainment Firm in Tax Evasion Tangle". The Japan Times. 2001-08-29. Retrieved 2012-08-28. "This incident comes just two months after the Tokyo-based production firm behind pop music duo B'z was found to have failed to declare 840 million yen in income."
  15. Being Creators list (in Japanese) http://beingcreators.net/

External links

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