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• Scott Flanders Named to Lead New Company Formed by Merger of CDNOW and Columbia House

  - 1999-09-22

  NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 22, 1999-- Scott N. Flanders has been named to lead the planned integration of CDNOW and Columbia House and to become chairman and CEO of the new public company that will result from their proposed merger, it was announced today by Mel Ilberman, executive vice president...

  Tags: CDNow, Columbia House, FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, merger, music, Sony Corp., Time Warner Inc., video

• Sony and Time Warner make music deal

  - 1999-07-26

  Sony Corp. and Time Warner Inc. have agreed to merge their jointly-owned Columbia House music and video club with the struggling online music retailer CDNow Inc. The deal connects a pioneer in the digital music industry with two of the world's largest record companies; Warner Music and Sony Music combined...

  Tags: CDNow, Columbia House, entertainment, MARKETING, music, Sony Corp., Time Warner Inc.

• CDNow Is Subsumed into Sony-Time Warner Venture

  - 1999-07-14

  Consolidation in the online music retailing market continued apace yesterday with the acquisition of CDNow Inc by Columbia House, which is a club-based direct marketer of music and videos owned jointly by Sony Corp and Time Warner Inc. The original players are feeling the squeeze as retailers such as Amazon.com...

  Tags: acquisition, CDNow, Columbia House, FINANCE, Investment, Time Warner Inc.

• CDNOW To Merge With Sony's and Time Warner's Columbia House to Create World's Leading Music and Video E-commerce Company

  - 1999-07-13

  FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. & NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--July 13, 1999--

  Tags: CDNow, Columbia House, Sony Corp., Time Warner Inc.