Investment fund struggles with bid for EMI music
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British investment fund Terra Firma said Thursday it had attracted only 3.6 percent of the capital of British record label EMI with its takeover offer, worth 3.2 billion pounds (4.8 billion euros).
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Far from soothing the savage breast, music is driving some of the world&#39;s largest companies into a frenzy of competition. At stake is participation in, if not command of, a multibillion-dollar
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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 Group Plc  rejected a 2.1-billion-pound ($4.1 billion) cash takeover proposal from Warner Music Group , saying the price was inadequate and not in the best interests of its shareholders.
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LONDON -- Shares of record company EMI Group PLC, whose artists include David Bowie and the Beatles, rose more than 6 percent Tuesday after a report that the company is in talks with private equity firms about a possible takeover.
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Warner Music Group said on Wednesday any takeover offer for Britain's EMI Group Plc would probably all be in cash, briefly boosting the London-based company's shares.
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EMI Group Plc  is expected to  reject a potential 2.5 billion pound ($4.92 billion) bid from  private equity firm Permira as being too low, the Times  newspaper said on Monday.
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EMI Group PLC, beset by profit warnings and an accounting scandal in Brazil, was thrown a potential lifeline yesterday with a possible new takeover bid by a former suitor, Warner Music Group.
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EMI Group, the struggling British music company, has said that it has received a new takeover approach from US rival Warner Music.
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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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Investors usually get nervous when a company relies on the sales of one product. The exception is when that product is an Apple iPod. Just as consumers can't seem to get enough of the iPod, investors are foaming over companies having anything to do with the digital music player.
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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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The private equity firm seeking to buy music group EMI extends the deadline for its offer by one week.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - EMI Group PLC EMI.L, the  world's third-largest music company, on Friday said it and  other music companies faced a New York probe into how music  companies influence what songs are played on the radio.
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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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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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Sales of investment funds stall as UK investors re-evaluate their portfolios, industry figures show.