The Bert-Co Enterprises

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U.S. printing and packaging company for the record industry for decades, also known over the years as The Bert-Co Press, Bert-Co Industries and Bert-Co Graphics.
Founded in 1930 by Berton P. Couturier (1912-1986), who ran the company well into the 1970's; the company originally printed matchbooks and travel brochures before they started printing 78 RPM labels for small and medium record labels in the mid-1940s. Starting in 1949, they printed center labels for Queens Litho, as well as their "tub-cut" tops as opposed to Queens Litho's "straight-cut" tops.
For a time around the late 1960s and early 70s, Bert-Co was a subsidiary of the Walter Reade Organization.
After the bottom fell out of the vinyl record business in the 1980s, Bert-Co branched out into packaging for CD's (and later, DVD's) and for the computer software and gaming industry, as well as printing of magazines such as The Hollywood Reporter and packaging for other products and services. In the 2000s, they expanded to a plant in Pulaski, TN, and a branch in China. As of September 1, 2016, Bert-Co Graphics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Edelmann GmbH.
Their typesetting, visible on center labels up to about 1977, was heavy on Linotype fonts, with a few samples here:
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Info:

https://bertcopackaging.com/
(c.1950's-'60's):
4862 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90029
(c.1960's-'70's):
1855 Glendale Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(213) 665-5137
(these two addresses now outdated)

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