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MIDEM director to stand down next year
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 4 June 2010
The Director of the MIDEM music business convention, Dominique Leguern, will step down after next January’s event.
Confirming Leguern’s plans to depart next year, the CEO of the Reed MIDEM company Paul Zilk told reporters: “Dominique’s passion, knowledge and understanding of the music industry have been enormous assets for MIDEM and our company. Under her stewardship, MIDEM and [digital spin off] MidemNet have successfully anticipated the ever-changing needs of the business in the face of the many challenges it has experienced during the past decade”.
Although MIDEM is still one of the biggest music business events in Europe, it is operating in an increasingly competitive market, and, arguably, appeals most to more conventional music companies whose influence and budgets are on the wane. Though the growth of the digital and brand partnership strands to the MIDEM event under Leguern’s directorship have helped bring in new delegates and budgets from other related sectors.
