- [Update: Sources are now suggesting that Sony has done the deal. Led by Doug Morris, we are told the purchase price was in the region of $17m.]
- independent German record label founded 1988
- focused in Metal / Hard Rock groups
- has introduced bands such as In This Moment, Lacuna Coil, Moonspell, Nevermore, Shadows Fall, Suicide Silence and Winds of Plague.
- The company is apparently valued somewhere between $15m and $20m, and has more than 50 staff across the US and Europe.
- Century’s family also includes Magic Arts Publishing, Lonely Planet Publishing, Inside Out Music, Super Ball, Rock The Nation America and other merchandise and management subsidiaries.
- If Century is bought by Sony, it will be the biggest major label acquisition since UMG snapped up music movie and TV programme maker Eagle Rock in April last year.
http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/is-this-the-next-big-major-label-acquisition/
Sony expanding their music business.
Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1
