EMI Group Limited (originally an acronym for Electric and Musical Industries and also known as EMI Music, Music from EMI, EMI Records Ltd. or simply just EMI) was a British multinational music recording, publishing, electronics, device and systems manufacturing company headquartered in London, England from 1931 until 2011. At the time of its break-up in 2012, it was the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and was one of the big four record companies (now the big three). Its EMI Records Ltd. group of record labels included EMI Records, Parlophone, Virgin Records and Capitol Records. EMI also had a major publishing arm, EMI Music Publishing—also based in London with offices globally.