Monday, October 27, 2008
How Not to Run a Big Music Company: A Tutorial Brought to You by a Big Music Company
How could the company behind the Beatles and other music legends lose $1.2 billion in 12 months?
We’ll be happy to tell you, says the people who own that company in a 101-page report.
(It’s the financial stylings of EMI Music’s owners: The United Kingdom’s Terra Firma private equity group, which bought the company for some $5 billion in the summer of 2007.)





