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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.)

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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