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Warner Music has made a strategic minority investment in SkillBox, a live entertainment and ticketing platform based in India. The deal arrives just a couple of weeks after India’s Economic Times reported, citing an interview with WMG CEO Robert Kyncl, that the company is actively seeking M&A opportunities in India. Warner’s recent M&A activity in […]
Warner Music Group has launched WM Africa Francophone (WMAFR), which will operate in France and French-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa. The new venture, led by Co-Directors Marc-André Niang and Yoann Chapalain, arrives as consumption of French-language music rises on Spotify. Spotify revealed last month that more than 100 million people in non-Francophone countries are listening to French language music, with […]