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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10582

27 March 2012
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) competition
In-depth investigation into Universal's plan to buy EMI's recorded music business

Brussels, 26/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 23 March, the European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into the planned acquisition of the recorded music business of EMI (the world's third biggest record company with more than 10% of the global market) by Universal Music Group (a subsidiary of Vivendi and the world's biggest record company, with a 28% share of the market), fearing that the new entity might have too much power over its direct customers, which would result in...

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