Sono Cairo
Sono Cairo is an Egyptian government owned multimedia company.
Company history
Launched as a privately-owned record company, it was taken over by the government in 1964, and became the country's largest producer of discs. it is under the control of the Ministry of Information.Artist Mohamed Fawzi & Co was established alshark alawsat factory for CD's on 30 April 1959 and turned into sout Alqahira Company for CD's on 6 January 1964. Then issued its decision, Mr. / Minister of Information No. 139 of 1977 established a sout alqahira company for Audio and Video as an Egyptian joint stock companies as one of the Radio and Television Union of the Ministry of Information.
In Egyptian Revolution of 1952, President Anwar Sadat made a speech from the company's broadcast.
Former Chairmen
No. | Name | From | To |
1 | Taha Mohammed EL-Hady Nasr | 6 January 1964 | 21 November 1979 |
2 | Safwat Ali Fahmy | 22 November 1979 | 31 December 1980 |
3 | Fathy EL-Bayumy Ebrahim | 1 January 1981 | 10 March 1982 |
4 | Mohammed Reda Hashem | 11 March 1982 | 22 January 1983 |
5 | Ahmed Mohammed EL-Fetory | 23 January 1983 | 16 July 1986 |
6 | Mohamed Saed Sabry | 1 September 1986 | 10 January 1990 |
7 | Abdel Aal Mohamed Abdel Aal | 14 January 1990 | 20 November 1994 |
8 | Abd EL-Rahman Ebrahem Hafez | 21 November 1994 | 20 May 1997 |
9 | Husien Fahmy Galal EL-Deen | 26 May 1997 | 9 October 1999 |
10 | Medhat Ahmed Abd EL-Menaem | 10 October 1999 | 4 June 2000 |
11 | Hosny Hamed EL-Rahamawy | 5 June 2000 | 5 September 2003 |
12 | Saed Helmy EL-Saed Yehya | 6 September 2003 | 26 November 2005 |
13 | Ebrahem Ahmed Ebrahem EL-Akabawy | 28 November 2005 | 5 January 2011 |
Video production
Sono Cairo's production includes production of religious E.g. And entertainment sono Cairo company Is interested in the field of video production to produce work of dramatic serials and other serials that have distinctive markings as gomhoreit Zefta which because of it, neighborhood Zefta is established in the Media Production City and there are also, ranging from the social work and comedy and historical and police and pay special attention to the production of work for children, as well as programsSinging production
The company seeks to preserve the heritage of songs the good times, where it converted tapes to the electronic media in preparation to launch in the market as digital image CD & DVD & MP3.Religious production
The company produces the Koran for senior readers of the Quran in Egypt and the Arab World also offers usually grab and religious prayers and thoughts of faith to the imam preachers, Sheikh Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy to achieve for a Muslim his material and spiritual reconstruction of the life styles that are available with the approach of Islamic law To express the essence of Islam in moderation and leadership.Stars who have worked with Sono Cairo
- Umm Kulthum
- Mohammed Abdel Wahab
- Abdul Basit Abdus Samad
- Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy
- Fairuz
External marketing
- printing and distribution of the company's production worldwide.
- Last agents at the international level defied the ways of illegal printing and distribution.
The [Persian Gulf] region and [Arab countries]
- Institution of sout aljazera
- Al-khaleg factory
- Dar alwasela
- Almostakbal company
- Institution of 13- June
- Dan we Dan company
- Music box
- Feras and basem company
- Institution of Ghazawi
- Recordings of albeshry
The [Maghreb] region
- Vasifun
[Africa] region
- Almasaa international for production and advertising
[Europe] Region
- Platinum
Region of the United States and Canada
- Mike's Sound Production
E-Marketing
- To cope with the company has developed e marketing activity to use the modern techniques to market content using the international information network and voice services through mobile and ground and affixed to marketing Internet connections to sono Cairo customers and the e-marketing copying Self-electronic media & &
Editing and graphics
- No. Units of Nonlinear Editing
- No. Units of linear Editing
- No. Units integrated graphics
Studios
Studio was created in area 200 m on the ground floor In addition to the three studios Company; this is to increase production through the use of visual studio company- Abbasid studio
- Abbasid studio
- ElGib studio
- New Abbasid studio
- El Sayeda Nafeesa studio
Factories
The company has two factories to produce and print cassette voice in Alexandria production capacity up to more than 3 million Cassettes per one shift annually with the highest quality in global markets and equipped with the latest modern technology for the production and printing of the Koran bars for famous readers and religious talk, entertainment and musical. In flew the modernization of factories and keep abreast of developments for the printing of the company's production of optical media the development and production units cans production capacity is developed of 10 thousand in one shift per day.Press
- Printed packaging tapes and CD covers of 4-color offset printing.
- Printed posters, artists and readers of the Quran 4 color.
- Implementation and printed posters advertising.
- Implementation of trade publications, which include the company's publications and others from books and magazines and so on.
- Processing of paper photography for all sizes of company and others.
Advertising agency