Fontana North

IndustryMusic & entertainment

GenreVarious

PredecessorMapleNationwide

Founded2006

Fontana North

Industry	Music & entertainment
Genre	Various
Predecessor	MapleNationwide
Founded	2006
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario , Canada
Services	Distribution, production, warehousing, marketing, sales, brand partnerships, merchandising, finance, back office
Parent	Cadence Music Group Virgin Music Group
Website	FontanaNorth.com

Fontana North is a Canadian record distribution company and represents the Canadian wing of the Virgin Music Group. Its name is derived from the defunct Fontana Distribution. It began as a joint venture between Canadian-based Cadence Music Group and US-based Fontana Distribution. The company was established by MapleCore in 2004 as MapleNationwide, and in 2006, it partnered with Fontana Distribution and was rebranded as Fontana North. It has expanded throughout Canada for pan-Canadian distribution of many music labels. On August 22, 2013, it was announced that they would be teaming up with Distort Entertainment in a joint venture deal with Fontana North acting as the main distributor of the hardcore label.^[1]

Fontana North won the Independent Distributor of the Year award six years in a row (2008 - 2013) at the Canadian Music Industry Awards, held annually in Toronto as part of Canadian Music Week.^[2][3][4]

In 2019, following Universal Music Group's acquisition of Fontana Distribution's owner, Ingrooves, Fontana returned to UMG. A year later, Fontana was folded into Caroline Distribution, acquired in 2013 via Universal's purchase of EMI, which, another year later, was rebranded as Virgin Music Label & Artist Services, later Virgin Music.^[5][6] That merged into Virgin Music Group in 2023.^[7]