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結論是新力博德曼音樂（SONY BMG）終將重新變回新力音樂（Sony Music Entertainment
Inc，縮寫為SMEI）。
Celine還是當家天后無庸置疑。
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Ref. http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSL567783720080805?sp=true
Sony goes solo as Sony BMG disbands
Tue Aug 5, 2008 1:59pm EDT
FRANKFURT/TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp has agreed to purchase Bertelsmann's 50
percent stake in their Sony BMG music joint venture for around $900 million,
ending a four-year venture that never lived up to its promise.
Sony said in a statement on Tuesday that Bertelsmann will also get $300
million of the cash on Sony BMG's balance sheet, valuing the deal at around
$1.2 billion.
The music company -- the world's scond-largest after Vivendi unit Universal
-- will now be called Sony Music Entertainment Inc (SMEI) and become a wholly
owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
Recording artists at SMEI will include Celine Dion, Alicia Keys, Bruce
Springsteen, Justin Timberlake, Usher and Jay Chou.
In August 2004 Germany's Bertelsmann teamed up with Japan's Sony to create
the venture, which includes labels such as Arista Records and Zomba.
Sony BMG had sales of 1.5 billion euros ($2.32 billion) in 2007.
A Sony spokesman in Tokyo said the electronics maker expects the transaction
to be completed later this year but declined to comment on how the deal would
affect Sony's earnings.
The deal has to be approved by regulatory authorities.
Sony added that it saw net cash costs of around $600 million as it did not
consolidate Sony BMG's cash.
Bertelsmann Chief Executive Hartmut Ostrowski, who took on the top job in
January this year, has been steadily disposing of assets in an effort to
focus the media giant on growth.
He has so far sold off large chunks of the company's loss-making book unit
and said the sale of Sony BMG was part of that strategy.
"This move is consistent with our new growth strategy and will enable us to
focus on our defined growth areas," he said in a statement.
(Reporting by Nicola Leske in Frankfurt and Kiyoshi Takanaka in Tokyo)
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