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Warner Music Group and EMI to Form World's Premier Music Group

EMI Group plc[1] and Time Warner Inc. announced on January 24 that they have reached agreement to form the world's premier[2] music group by combining their recorded music and music publishing businesses into a global joint venture. The new company, Warner EMI Music, will have broad domestic and international holdings; a roster[3] that includes many of the world's most popular artists; and complementary[4] strengths in recorded music, talent management, content and copyright origination and ownership, promotion and public relations, manufacturing, packaging, distribution.

The global joint venture will be owned equally by Time Warner and EMI Group. The transaction involves EMI and Time Warner contributing their respective music businesses to the joint venture. EMI will transfer its net debt to Warner EMI Music (930 million pounds, or $1.5 billion, as of September 30, 1999) at completion and Time Warner will transfer a comparable level of debt adjusted for interim activity through closing.

注释：

1． Plc：
是Public Limited Company （股票上市公司）的缩写。

2． premier：
首要的，首位的。比如：Asia's premier port亚洲第一大港。

3． roster：
花名册，登记表。

4． complementary：
补足的，补充的。大家千万要把complementary和complimentary区分开来：后者是“称赞的，问候的，致敬的”的意思，比如：a complimentary speech一篇颂词。

合并风云再起，华纳百代独霸世界音乐业

百代音乐有限公司与美国时代华纳有限公司于1月24日正式宣布：他们已经达成协议，将各自的音乐录制和音乐出版业务相互合并组建一个全球性合资企业－华纳百代音乐公司（Warner EMI Music）。这一新生公司将会拥有广阔的国内外资源优势：旗下众多的世界知名艺术家；并且双方在音乐录制、人才管理、发行内容及自主版权、社会公共关系、产品制作、包装、销售方面均有互补优势。

百代音乐有限公司与美国时代华纳有限公司将以平等地位共同享有这个全球合资公司的控制权。两家公司将会把各自的唱片业务投入到该新生公司。完成合并后，百代公司将把本公司负债净额（9.3亿英镑，亦即15亿美元（依据1999年9月30日汇率））转给华纳百代公司，时代华纳公司也将把过渡阶段调整的相应负债净额作出转让。