Wind-up Entertainment

Wind-up Entertainment, Inc. is the largest independently-owned record label in the world. The parent company Wind-up Entertainment also runs numerous publishing companies as well as a full-scale retail, online and tour merchandising company. In September 2009, the label reached an agreement with EMI Music Germany and in February 2011 an agreement was reached with EMI Music Canada. The partnership has seen EMI Music take over the marketing and distribution of artists such as Creed, Evanescence, Seether and Finger Eleven throughout the world outside of the US.