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PaidContent
- 2009-11-18
Of the big four major label groups, EMI stands out as the most distressed. But what happens next in this tale of toxicity? The outcome depends on a number of volatile variables, though the rejection of a $1.67 billion injection proposal by Terra Firma is hardly an uplifting development. ...
Tags: EMI Group Plc., Financial, Warner Music Group Corp., Financial Accounting, Digital Music, Digital Media, Finance, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Digital Music News
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Financial Times
- 2009-08-10
Ticketmaster Entertainment has recruited Roger Ames, a former senior executive at both Warner Music and EMI, to oversee the expansion of its fragmented international business on the eve of its proposed merger with Live Nation.The move for Mr Ames, whose 34-year career in the record industry included five years...
Tags: EMI Group Plc., Merger, Ticketmaster Corp., Warner Music Group Corp., Entertainment, CEO, Ticketmaster Entertainment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Company News, Financial Times
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Strategy Eye
- 2009-05-10
Microsoft is rumoured to have flown to the rescue of litigation-plagued music search site Seeqpod. Seeqpod CEO Kasian Franks recently revealed the site was in buyout talks with a major firm which would be able to negotiate with the music labels currently pursuing Seeqpod through the courts. ...
Tags: EMI Group Plc., Microsoft Corp., Music, EMI Music Publishing, SeeqPod, Jasper Jackson, Warner Music Group Corp.
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Strategy Eye
- 2009-01-13
Warner Music is adding new social networking capabilities to a number of its artists' sites through a partnership with Cisco Systems. The label will be the first firm to test Cisco's Entertainment Operating System Eos, a white label platform designed to integrate social networking, content management and site administration....
Tags: EMI Group Plc., Social Media, Cisco Systems Inc., Warner Music Group Corp., Tool, Entertainment Operating System, Social Networking, Sales Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sales, MySpace, EMI Group, Facebook, Andrew McDonald
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- 2007-06-01
NEW YORK -- While it is currently uncertain whether Warner Music Group Corp. (Warner; IDR rated 'BB-' with a Stable Outlook by Fitch) will make a competing bid for EMI Group Plc EMI, any theoretical bid for EMI would likely result in a Rating Watch Negative for Warner's ratings and...
Tags: EMI Group Plc., Warner Music Group Corp.
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- 2007-03-09
EMI, the music recording and publishing group, has rejected a 260p-a-share offer from Warner Music. The company says that the offer is inadequate, given the stand-alone value of EMI and the benefits that such a takeover would offer. Warner said that EMI, the music recording...
Tags: EMI Group Plc., Warner Music Group Corp.
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- 2007-02-23
Troubled music group EMI remained in the spotlight, after receiving another bid approach from US rival Warner Music. The timing is impeccable, as EMI is still reeling from the effects of issuing two profit warnings in the past six weeks. And, even t Troubled music...
Tags: EMI Group Plc., Warner Music Group Corp.
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- 2007-02-21
LONDON AFP — Warner Music Group said on Wednesday that any possible takeover offer for EMI, the struggling British music company, would be in cash and not shares. "WMG confirms that any possible offer by it for EMI Group plc is likely to be solely in cash," the US...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, EMI Group Plc., FINANCE, Investment, Warner Music Group Corp.
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- 2007-02-21
In order to clarify that Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE: WMG) shareholders will not be required to notify their interests in WMG securities under Rule 8 of the UK Takeover Code relating to dealings by interested persons in its relevant securities, WMG confirms that any possible offer by it for...
Tags: EMI Group Plc., security, Warner Music Group Corp.
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- 2007-02-20
Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE: WMG) confirmed today, in response to EMI Group plc's ("EMI") announcement of earlier today, that it has approached EMI about a possible acquisition of the entire equity of EMI.
Tags: EMI Group Plc., Warner Music Group Corp.
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