Warner Music plans EMI cash takeover
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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.
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EMI, the world's third largest music label, is actively considering removing the digital rights management restrictions from its song catalog and selling tracks online in MP3 format, according to a report published in The Wall Street Journal Friday.
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EMI Group PLC said Friday that it rejected a nonbinding $4.1 billion takeover proposal from Warner Music Group.
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Warner Music Group has made a bid approach for Britain's EMI despite uncertainty over whether any deal would win regulatory approval, in the latest twist in a seven-year tit-for-tat takeover battle.
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Shares in Britain's EMI  rose on  Thursday following a media report that it was in talks with a  number of private equity firms over potential alternatives to a  takeover approach from Warner Music .
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Warner Music Group&#39;s decision on  whether to counter bid for British rival EMI Group has become a  tortuously long one, as the No. 4 player grapples with exposing  itself further to recorded music amid a faster-than-expected  decline in the industry.
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Britain's EMI  said on Tuesday it had received a bid approach from U.S. rival Warner Music , the latest twist in a seven-year battle in which the two music groups have tried to buy each other.
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Britain's EMI said it had received a bid approach from U.S. rival Warner Music, the latest twist in a seven-year battle in which the two music groups have tried to buy each other.
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Shares in EMI Group Plc EMI.L gained   as much as 7.1 percent on Wednesday following a report that   Warner Music Group Corp. WMG.N was preparing a new bid to buy   the world's third largest music company.
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Warner Music Group  has approached Britain's EMI  about a possible bid despite uncertainty over whether it would win regulatory approval, in the latest twist in a seven-year tit-for-tat takeover battle.
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Warner Music Group has made a bid  approach for Britain's EMI despite uncertainty over whether any  deal would win regulatory approval, in the latest twist in a  seven-year tit-for-tat takeover battle.
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Music company EMI, home to Robbie Williams and Coldplay, will cut up to 2,000 jobs as part of a restructuring being planned by its private equity boss Guy Hands, Sunday newspapers reported.
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Warner Music Group Corp. said on  Tuesday it decided against bidding for British rival EMI Group  Plc, two days before a deadline to submit an offer loomed.
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Music group EMI, which announced last month it had received a preliminary takeover approach, has said that discussions with the potential bidder had been called off.
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British music company EMI is to axe up to 2,000 jobs in a restructuring plan by its new private-equity owners to save up to 200 million pounds ($392 million) a year and recast itself for the digital age.
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Warner Music Group Corp.   said on Wednesday any takeover offer it might make for  Britain's EMI Group Plc  would probably be all cash.
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Warner Music Group has decided not to make an offer for British rival EMI Group, the company said in a statement on Tuesday, but left open the possibility of a bid in the next six months.