Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Headquarters location: 550 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10022-3211 Tel. 212-833-8000 Job offers, investor relations: www.sonybmg.com

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« ETHICAL » RATING OF SONY_BMG_MUSIC_ENTERTAINMENT , group Sony Music and subsidiaries [click on the images below or on help for more information] 24% Job: 24% of company's jobs cut since 1998 7 Delinquency: 7 act(s) of financial or trade delinquency 7 Tax haven, secret bank account, shell companies: operates in 7 offshore financial center(s) 63 Sales: more than 63 billion(s) dollars/euros in annual sales 4 Net profit: more than 4 billion(s) dollars/euros in cumulated net profit since 1998 4 Influence: 4 act(s) of direct corruption or lobbying 4 Advertising & marketing: 4 dubious practice(s) Full profile >>>
Relevance: business & market share year business source 2006 World's second-largest music editor. Les Echos 2005 Sony-BMG, Warner Music, EMI and Universal share 75% of the world music market. Le Figaro 2004 Controls 21,5% of the Music market in the world Les Echos Sony BMG Music Entertainment is managed by year name photo position; compensation source 2004R.Lack, Andrew Chief Operating Officer; 2004Schmidt-Holtz, Rolf Chairman; Highest paid executives in 2007 Advertising & marketing year dubious practice : image source 2007 Spying: Sony-BMG installed a small program spy, a root' kit, in CDs sold o consumer, in order to control the use that could be made of those CDs by the consumer.: 01net.com Dubious practices in 2007

Made by year employees <> social impact : country source 2008 -80 Internal restructuring: Sony BMG removes a third of its manpower in France.: France Les Echos 2005 -185 Merger/Acquisition: Les Echos 2004 10000 -650 Internal restructuring: Les Echos Layoff plans and labour conditions in 2007 Financials year financial misdemeanor sales source 2006 Assigné par le procureur de l'Etat de New York pour entente sur le prix de vente aux distributeurs de musique en ligne.     Les Echos 2005 Sony BMG a accepté de payer une amende de 10 millions de dollars en échange de l'abandon des poursuites initiées par Eliot Spitzer, le ministre de la Justice de l'Etat de New York, pour avoir payé les radios pour diffuser les titres de ses artistes. Pay-for-play "is driving the industry, and it is wrong," Spitzer a déclaré à la presse. Sony BMG a reconnu avoir offert à des dirigeants de radios des téléviseurs, ordinateurs ou billets d'avion pour qu'ils diffusent ses titres.     Les Echos 2004   8   billion US$ Les Echos Financial delinquency in 2007

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