{{Short description|Polish record label}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Polton | image = <!-- logo, such as "LABEL-LOGO.jpg" --> | image_size = <!-- size --> | image_alt = <!-- WP:ALT text describing the image --> | caption = <!-- a caption for the image --> | parent = <!-- parent company, such as "[[Warner Music Group]]" --> | founded = 1983 | founder = <!-- name of founders, separated by using commas, {{Flatlist}} or {{Hlist}} --> | defunct = <!-- year the label dissolved, such as {{end date|1990}} --> | status = <!-- leave blank unless "Inactive" --> | distributor = <!-- distributors, separated by using commas, {{Flatlist}} or {{Hlist}} --> | genre = <!-- such as "[[World music|World]]" or "Various", separated by using commas, {{Flatlist}} or {{Hlist}} --> | country = Poland | location = <!-- headquarters city and state --> | website = <!-- such as "{{URL|www.atlanticrecords.com}}" --> }}
'''Polton''' was a music [[record label]], established in [[Poland]] in 1983. It was one of the three (together with [[Savitor]] and Arston) better known [[Polish diaspora|Polonia]]-assisted<ref>Note: "Polonia-assisited" means that the enterprise was backed by the foreign investments originated from Polish diaspora</ref> Polish record labels.<ref name="beat">Hirek Wrona, ''Fonografia w komunizmie'', In: "Beats of Freedom - Zew wolności". Warszawa: Narodowe Centrum Kultury, 2010, p. 43. {{ISBN|978-83-61587-26-2}}.</ref>
In 1990-1991 it was acquiredby [[Starstream Communications Group]]<ref>[http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1990_748322/business-briefs.html "Business Briefs"], ''[[Houston Chronicle]]'' Archives, Fri 12/07/1990 HOUSTON CHRONICLE, Section Business, Page 5</ref><ref>[http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/Thomson_M&A/Starstream_Commun_Group_Inc_acquires_Polton_Records-182311040 "Starstream Commun Group Inc acquires Polton Records"]</ref><ref>[http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/Thomson_M&A/Starstream_Commun_Group_Inc_acquires_remaining_interest_in_PZ_Polton_Ltd_from_ScanSource_Inc-321547040 "Starstream Commun Group Inc acquires remaining interest in PZ Polton Ltd from ScanSource Inc"]</ref> and eventually by [[Warner Music Group]] (Polton / [[Warner Music Poland]]), the latter eventually closed its office in Poland.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}}<!--unreliable, but reasonable ref http://www.mixolydian.info/wytwornie-disco-polo.html -->
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