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(contracted; show full)king agent [[Martin Goldschmidt]] and business partner [[Pete Lawrence]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/label-profiles-four-independents-under-the-spotlight-8712226.html|title=Label profiles: Four independents under the spotlight|date=2006-05-23|publisher=[[The Independent]]|accessdate=2014-04-07}}</ref> Goldschmidt remains the current owner and managing director. The company is based in [[Acton, London]].

Established in 1986, Cooking Vinyl 
has developed a reputation as one of Europe's most innovative independent labels, inspiring an enviable loyalty among its artist roster in the process. Key to the company's longevity is iboasts emphasis on artist-driven deals with its pioneering introduction of bespoke services-only contracts that claim no stake in artists' copyrights<ref>http://cookingvinyl.com/about/</ref>. The first such deal drawn up in 1993 with [[Billy Bragg]] who has since re-signed to the label a total of seven times.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.pias.com/blog/pure-gold-martin-goldschmidt-cooking-vinyls-unplanned-success/|title=Pure Gold: Martin Goldschmidt on Cooking Vinyl’s unplanned success - [PIAS]|date=2015-10-28|newspaper=[PIAS]|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> Many other acts return year after year, release after release, including [[Pixies]]' Charles Thompson (AKA [[Black Francis|Frank Black]]) with 18 releases to date with the label, and starting in 1994 Cooking Vinyl released 23 albums by the former [[Doll by Doll|Doll By Doll]] man, the late (and great) [[Jackie Leven]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://cookingvinyl.com/about/|title=About Cooking Vinyl - UK based Independent Record Label|newspaper=Cooking Vinyl|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>

As for recent years, 2015 and 2016 were remarkable for the label,2015 and 2016 the label received acclaim, being described by [[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] magazine as “a template for modern independent record companies”. After topping the charts in 2015 with [[The Prodigy]]’s “The Day is My Enemy”,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/15197/prodigy/|title=PRODIGY {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> this feat was repeated in 2016 with the global success of [[Passenger]]’s “[[Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea|Young as the Morning Old as th(contracted; show full)
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