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'This new deal will give us an opportunity to vastly improve on our achievements so far.'

The deal includes 13 discographies, including Dinosaur Jr, Renaissance, Four-play, Third Ear Band, Greenslade, Marc Almond and Howard Jones

Label gets folded into Concord's Craft Recordings imprint

UK market turned over nearly £1bn less last year than it did in 2001

Jon Barlow opens up about future of British label

MBW understands individual recently accepted a senior job at Warner Music UK

Bertelsmann-owned company acquired BBR earlier this year

AIM CEO Paul Pacifico raises concerns over major-owned distribution in the independent sector

New records from Martin Luke Brown, Áine Cahill, Vistas, SHOR and VUKOVI on the way

Recordings catalogue sold by CEO Eric Rushing to major group

Black Box boss Jason Murray will head up operation

LiHui Shen runs China's biggest independent record label. He's feeling very optimistic about the future.

Spotify and Ed Sheeran set up huge year for the British record business

Exec joined Interscope in 2010 as Head Of Sales

Warner/Chappell climbs to 12% global share of publishing as indies rule sector