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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The Warner Music Group, Viacom and the Universal Music Group are the final bidders for the BMG Music Publishing unit.
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British music group EMI urged its  shareholders on Wednesday to start selling to private equity  group Terra Firma after long-term suitor and rival Warner Music  Group finally ruled out a counterbid.
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Former EMI Group Plc Chief Executive Jim  Fifield is interested in potentially making an offer for the  world&#39;s third biggest music company, he said on Friday.
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Former EMI Group Plc  Chief Executive Jim Fifield is interested in potentially making an offer for the world's third biggest music company, he said on Friday.
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EMI is said to have discussed proposals to sell unprotected files through an array of digital retailers, including Apple, Microsoft, Real Networks and Yahoo.
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LONDON, Nov. 28  Â The EMI Group, the British music company, said Tuesday that it had been approached about a takeover, and a source close to the situation said that the private equity firm Permira had made the contact.
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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.
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Music group EMI and US peer Warner Music have ruled out pursuing their proposed takeover bids for each other for the time being.
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NEW YORK -- Warner Music Group is "actively" considering making a new offer to buy rival EMI Group, which accepted a buyout bid for $4.8 billion from Terra Firma Capital Partners last month.
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LONDON -- EMI Group PLC, home to the Beatles and Coldplay, agreed to a 2.4 billion pound ($4.7 billion) takeover by a private equity group on Monday, but the deal raised speculation of an all-out bidding war for the struggling music company.
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Former EMI Group Plc  Chief  Executive Jim Fifield is interested in potentially making an  offer for the world&#39;s third biggest music company, he said on  Friday.
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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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UK music group EMI rejects a Â£2.1bn takeover from Warner Music as too low.
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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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EMI Group Plc , the world's  third-largest music company, said it has dropped plans to buy  smaller rival Warner Music  "for the time being,"  sending its shares down as much as 7 percent on Thursday.
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Warner Music Group Corp. said on  Monday it will pay about $73.5 million to take over Roadrunner  Music Group, home to rock artists including Nickelback,  Slipknot and Megadeath.