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| UK Businesses For SaleBoosey & Hawkes has been acquired by Imagem Music
15/04/2008
Classical music publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, was sold recently by its private equity owners, HgCapital, for £126m to Imagem Music.
Imagem Music is a music publishing fund backed by Dutch pension fund ABP and CP Masters, one of Europe's largest independent music companies. HgCapital acquired Boosey & Hawkes for £75m four years ago, taking it off public markets. The private equity house announced it was selling the business for a price almost 70% above that to Imagem. Ronald Wuijster, at APG Investments, representing the ABP music publishing fund, said the acquisition is a significant addition. André de Raaff, chief executive of CP Masters commented that classical music is experiencing substantial growth, due to the world population's aging. Boosey & Hawkes has the rights to more than 116,000 works of music and choreography, including those from Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Britten and Prokofieff. Famous living composers include Peter Maxwell Davies and Karl Jenkins. |
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