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Imagem named second biggest UK indie publisher
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 14 May 2009
Imagem, the acquisition hungry music publisher who only launched in the UK last year, are celebrating being already named the country’s second biggest independent publisher. As previously reported, Imagem, funded by the Dutch-based pension fund ABP, has been busy buying up publishing catalogues in the last couple of years, including those Universal Music were forced to sell after it merged its publishing company with what was BMG Music Publishing. They also recently announced the were buying the Rogers & Hammerstein Organisation, which owns buckets of publishing rights, including Rogers & Hammerstein’s musicals.
Bigging his own company up after they were identified as the second biggest music publisher in the UK earlier this week, Imagen’s UK boss Tim Smith told CMU: “Given the fact that Imagem Music has only been in existence for one year, being recognised as the second largest independent music publisher in the UK is a remarkable achievement. It is perhaps worth noting that had we started representing our Zomba US catalogue at the start of 2008 there is a very good chance that we would actually be number one but that is academic and we are delighted to have achieved so much in such a relatively short space of time. We are determined not to become complacent however and remain fully focused on building on this success moving forward”.
