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[PIAS] announces new Wichita sales partnership
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 25 August 2011
The folks at [PIAS] have signed a global (excluding the US) sales and marketing deal with Wichita Recordings. In more concrete terms, this means [PIAS] will thereby handle the distribution of forthcoming releases from Wichita-signed artists including Kele Okereke, Los Campesinos!, The Cribs and Simian Mobile Disco. The deal brings about the end of a similar partnership with Universal’s Cooperative.
Dick Green, who co-founded Wichita in 2000 with Mark Bowen, said this: “[PIAS]’s enthusiasm and commitment to the independent sector has always impressed us and we are very excited to start this new relationship. From the outset Wichita has been committed to developing acts internationally as well as domestically and the [PIAS] set up will allow us to pursue these objectives across both our established artists and some exciting new signings”.
[PIAS] Group MD, Edwin Schroter added: “We are delighted to be working together with Mark and Dick and the many great artists they represent. I am sure that with their world-class roster and our broad range of services that they can tap into both in the UK and internationally, we can add another chapter to the already impressive Wichita success story”. Hurrah!
