Craig Swedin is an experienced product manager currently at AMPED Distribution, a division of Alliance Entertainment, since February 2024, where management of product for independent labels and product transfers is primary responsibility. Prior to this role, Craig worked at Alliance Entertainment from May 2004 to February 2024 in domestic purchasing, focusing on music and video procurement while coordinating co-op advertising. Additional experience includes positions at Almighty Institute of Music Retail, Wherehouse Entertainment as a music buyer, and Cema Distribution as a customer service representative. Craig is a graduate of Los Angeles Broadcasting School, having attended from 1988 to 1989.
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AMPED Distribution, a division of Alliance Entertainment
AMPED Distribution, a division of Alliance Entertainment. Nasdaq: AENT is a top tier independent distributor committed to establishing and developing independent artists and labels worldwide. Being part of Alliance Entertainment, AMPED™ gives the indie community access to a global distribution system with a seasoned and skilled staff that provides a suite of services and data second to none. AMPED’s customer base is the largest in the industry, directly servicing brick and click retailers large and small along with (DTC) direct consumers. AMPED’s growing roster includes labels such as AWAL/Kobalt Music Recordings including Glassnote, Alligator Records, Believe Digital, Better Noise (formerly known as Eleven Seven), Big Loud, Bloodshot Records, Cleopatra, Compass Records, Culture Factory, Earache Records, Empire, eOne, Epitaph Records & Anti-, Hopeless Records, IDLA, Kartel, Inner Knot, Mad Decent, Manifesto, Merge Records, mTheory, Nuclear Blast, ORG Music, PIAS, Prospect Park, Ruf Records, Secretly Distribution, Shanachie, SM Entertainment, Smithsonian Folkways, Soulfood, Sub Pop Records (through partnership with ADA), Tommy Boy, Tuff Gong, Virtual, We Are Hear, Yellowsound/Broadway Records and more. AMPED™ Distribution is ready to take your label to the next level by providing superior distribution services; both domestically and internationally. Backed by the Alliance Entertainment worldwide distribution network, AMPED™ is directly available to thousands of independent stores, all major chains retailers and mass merchants, online retailers, specialty retailers, global marketplaces and other wholesalers. AMPED™ is the future model for physical distribution of Vinyl LP's, CDs, Cassettes, DVDs and Blu-ray and offers state of the art digital music distribution. This unique distribution model combines global reach, world-wide sales force, label marketing & advertising and state-of-the-art distribution in a package suited to Vendors, Labels & Artists of all sizes.