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...When combined with Penguin Random House, already the world’s biggest publisher, the Bertelsmann publishing division will be home to some of the world’s most popular and well-known authors, spanning everything...
...He disbanded the focus on discrete sport categories and began reorienting all products under three divisions: men’s, women’s and kids’....
...Titles include Top Gear, children’s magazine CBeebies and music monthly Top of the Pops....
...Its entertainment and publishing arms will need two executive teams and two boards....
...Simon & Schuster, the group’s publishing division, increased revenues from $155m to $176m with best sellers including Kill Shot and Lone Wolf ....
...“We haven’t grown Universal Music with two major transactions [its takeover of Bertelsmann’s music publishing division in 2006 and the EMI bid announced on Friday] just to spin it off,” Jean-Bernard Lévy...
...run his record labels, and pulled off a bid for EMI Music Publishing without committing much capital....
...EMI’s recorded music division will join the French group’s telecommunications and video games portfolio and its publishing arm will fit in with the Japanese company’s electronics and film assets....
...He bolstered his video game division with another deal. He bought Bertelsmann’s music publishing division and now EMI’s recorded music arm....
...EMI’s publishing division, which manages copyrights to 1.3m songs and represents songwriters from the Arctic Monkeys to Beyoncé, has remained relatively untouched since Terra Firma’s leveraged buy-out of...
...between divisions....
...The Russell 2000 index rose 0.7 per cent and closed in record territory on Friday, for a gain of 2.8 per cent this week....
...Canaccord Capital added 7.4 per cent to 617½p as the Canada-based stockbroker and fund manager reported record second-quarter revenues....
...P&O is expected to record a book profit of on the sale of about £8m.”...
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