title: BMG
text: # BMG
  
  BMG may refer to:
  
  ## Organizations
  
  * Music publishing companies:
     * Bertelsmann Music Group, a 1987–2008 division of Bertelsmann that was purchased by Sony on October 1, 2008
        * Sony BMG, a 2004–2008 joint venture of Bertelsmann and Sony that was purchased by Sony in late 2008
        * Sony Music, the purchaser of Sony BMG in 2008 and owner of the rights to its catalog
        * Ariola Records, sometimes known as "BMG Ariola", originally a separate company, acquired in 1987 by Bertelsmann Music Group, then by Sony BMG in 2002, then by Sony Music in 2008
     * BMG Rights Management, a company established in late 2008 as a joint venture between Bertelsmann and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
  * Baader-Meinhof Group, the former name of the Red Army Faction, one of the most violent and prominent left wing groups of post–World War II West Germany
  * Badan Meteorologi dan Geofisika, the former name of the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics
  * Banco BMG, formerly known as Banco de Minas Gerais, a Brazilian bank
  * Bank Mendes Gans, a Dutch bank
  * Beacon Medical Group, an Irish healthcare company
  * Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a large U.S. charitable foundation
  * Blue Man Group, a (primarily American) performance art group
  * Bohlen, Meyer, Gibson and Associates, an architectural firm in Indianapolis, Indiana
  * Borussia Mönchengladbach, a German football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia
  
  ## Places
  
  * Beth Medrash Govoha, a Haredi yeshiva in Lakewood Township, New Jersey
  * Monroe County Airport (Indiana) (IATA code: BMG), a county-owned public-use airport
  
  ## Publications
  
  * BMG (magazine) (for banjo, mandolin, and guitar), a magazine founded in 1903 by Clifford Essex (1869–1946) of London, England
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  * Bulk metallic glass (BMG), a type of alloy, amorphous metal
  * β2-Microglobulin (BMG) a protein
  * benign monoclonal gammopathy (BMG)
  * Bedside strip Measurement of venous/capillary blood Glucose (BMG)
  
  ## Weaponry
  
  * Browning machine gun, various machine gun designs by John Browning
  * .50 BMG, a cartridge developed for the Browning .50 caliber machine gun in the late 1910s
  