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1 day ago · The sale for $914.5 million will help finance the planned purchase of Polygram. June 20, 2000. Vivendi to Buy Seagram, Canal Plus for $46 Billion. Paris-based Vivendi agrees to buy Seagram for $34 billion, excluding debt. Seagram investors will receive $77.35 in Vivendi stock for each of their shares, up 21% from the prior day’s close.
2 days ago · Ultimately Ameer chose to sign with Polygram records in 1996. “When I signed with Polygram, they were like the biggest label in the world. They got absorbed by MCA like five years later,” he says.
1 day ago · Seagram agrees to buy PolyGram, the largest music company, for $10.6 billion. Seagram also said it will spin off its Tropicana juice unit in an initial public offering the company expects to ...
1 day ago · In contrast to the lively pop songs that appeared on the Kiss Me album, Disintegration's morose atmopshere didn't please PolyGram who owned the label that The Cure were signed to, namely Fiction.
1 day ago · Before packing up and leaving for the next stop of their M72 World Tour (August 23rd in Edmonton, Canada), the band donated $40,000 to People Serving People, which is Minnesota's largest organization providing services for those experiencing homelessness.
2 days ago · PolyGram Video was the home entertainment arm of the Dutch-German media conglomerate PolyGram N.V. Headquartered in Baarn, a town near Hilversum (which is often cited as the Netherlands' media center), the company distributed a majority of the PolyGram Filmed Entertainment library, music videos related to labels owned or distributed by PolyGram, and libraries of other companies and brands.
2 days ago · Bronfman, the 69-year-old heir to the Seagram spirits family that once controlled Universal Studios and PolyGram, also offered to match Skydance’s planned $1.5bn injection into Paramount and pay ...
