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===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
<p>[[The Video Collection]] was renamed to '''Video Collection International''' ('''VCI''') in 1994 due to financial difficulties (the name change was applied on-screen the following year), and in 1999 the company was sold to the Kingfisher group. Kingfisher sold the company to the Woolworths Group in July 2001 and in September 2004, the company merged with [[BBC Video]] to form [[2 Entertain]]. Despite the merger, VCI's logo continued to be used | <p>[[The Video Collection]] was renamed to '''Video Collection International''' ('''VCI''') in 1994 due to financial difficulties (the name change was applied on-screen the following year), and in 1999 the company was sold to the Kingfisher group. Kingfisher sold the company to the Woolworths Group in July 2001 and in September 2004, the company merged with [[BBC Video]] to form [[2 Entertain]], with VCI being renamed to 2 Entertain Video. Despite the merger, VCI's logo continued to be used and BBC continued to self distribute releases, both until September 2005, when 2 Entertain launched a new logo to replace the VCI logo and their logo also started to appear on BBC releases. | ||
===Logo (September 11, 1995-September 12, 2005)=== | ===Logo (September 11, 1995-September 12, 2005)=== | ||