Anyone familiar with this label's history?

I’m just wondering if anyone is familiar with the history of the Vox label. Here’s why:

I have two releases of a CD (links below). The fine print on one says

℗ & © 1997 THE VOX MUSIC GROUP, a division of SPJ Music…"

and the other says

℗ & © 1997 THE VOX MUSIC GROUP, a division of Essex Entertainment…"

Did Vox change hands in 1997? Even if so, it seems odd that a release under both conditions would happen in the same year. I can’t find any info about it on the web. Wikipedia has a page about Vox, but it doesn’t mention either parent company. Discogs has an entry that indicates SPJ is the newer parent.

Just a point of curiosity, if anyone knows.

https://musicbrainz.org/release/3959bda4-f32d-43e6-bacc-3af524ff3b54
https://musicbrainz.org/release/865db025-0806-483e-b9d2-7bea4bc20e9e

While I dunno anything, I found a loan document that suggests both SPJ and Essex were being bought by the same company in 1996. I expect the real answer here is “the whole thing was in flux and nobody knew what to print yet” :stuck_out_tongue:

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