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.NameFromTo
1Taha Mohammed EL-Hady Nasr6 January 196421 November 1979
2Safwat Ali Fahmy22 November 197931 December 1980
3Fathy EL-Bayumy Ebrahim1 January 198110 March 1982
4Mohammed Reda Hashem11 March 198222 January 1983
5Ahmed Mohammed EL-Fetory23 January 198316 July 1986
6Mohamed Saed Sabry1 September 198610 January 1990
7Abdel Aal Mohamed Abdel Aal14 January 199020 November 1994
8Abd EL-Rahman Ebrahem Hafez21 November 199420 May 1997
9Husien Fahmy Galal EL-Deen26 May 19979 October 1999
10Medhat Ahmed Abd EL-Menaem10 October 19994 June 2000
11Hosny Hamed EL-Rahamawy5 June 20005 September 2003
12Saed Helmy EL-Saed Yehya6 September 200326 November 2005
13Ebrahem Ahmed Ebrahem EL-Akabawy28 November 20055 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.

Singing 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.

Stars who have worked with Sono Cairo

  • Umm Kulthum
  • Mohammed Abdel Wahab
  • Abdul Basit Abdus Samad
  • Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy
  • Fairuz

    External marketing

There are fourteen companies holding the rights to distribute and print production of sout alqahira at the international level, distributed as follows:

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

A continuation of the bidding company and despite the fire which broke out in units of editing, graphics The company has created a new center for editing and graphics to keep pace with development in the field of video production and the center houses became include:
  • 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 for the production and printing of the Koran bars for famous readers and religious talk, entertainment and musical.

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

The advertising agency represents one of the major activity in the company which offer integrated advertising services in this regard where it propagate the clients' advertisement in the radio, TV, and Satellite.