Warner Music Group (US)

Warner Music is the world's #3 music group, with labels including Atlantic, Elektra and Sire. It has established a reputation as a pioneer in the marketing of digital music, and in 2008 Atlantic was the first major label in the world to generate more than half its sales from digital products. Previously part of the mammoth Time Warner media behemoth, the company began investigating ways of strengthening itself in the face of falling record sales in 2000. That year, the group made efforts to outmanoeuvre its rivals by agreeing to merge with UK competitor EMI, but the deal was vetoed by EC regulators. As the state of the industry worsened over the following years, talks started with Bertelsmann's BMG and again with EMI in 2003. In the end, however, Warner went independent, after Time Warner agreed to sell it to a consortium headed by former Seagram boss Edgar Bronfman. Merger talks with EMI reopened once more in 2006 but again failed to get anywhere. In a surprise change of strategy, the group put itself up for sale in 2011 and was acquired by billionaire Len Blavatnik for $3.3bn.

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Reprise Records	Ivy Hill Corp.
Atlantic Records	Warner Bros. Records
Kinetic Records	Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Columbia House Records	Warner Classics International
Elektra Records	Qwest Records
Maverick Records	Rhino Records

Warner Music International

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