GZ Media, named for the Czech Gramofonové Závody, which translates to Gramophone Record Factory, employees nearly 2,000 people, and runs its major operations in Loděnice in the Czech Republic. GZ Media is known as the world's largest vinyl manufacturer. Since its founding in 1951, it has supplied records across the Eastern Bloc. Winslow Partners, a U.S. Private Equity Fund, briefly acquired GZ Media in 1998, only to sell it a few years later. Current GZ Media owner and president Zdenek Pelc is the longest reigning CEO in the history of the Czech Republic.