{"id":3780,"date":"2013-11-15T18:15:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/15\/universal-revenues-up-22-in-first-9-months-of-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-11-15T18:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:15:29","slug":"universal-revenues-up-22-in-first-9-months-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/11\/15\/universal-revenues-up-22-in-first-9-months-of-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal revenues up 22% in first 9 months of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/1\/1c\/Universal_Music_Group.svg\/411px-Universal_Music_Group.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"221\" height=\"83\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Universal Music Group saw revenues of \u20ac3.398 million (\u00a32.84m) in the  first nine months of 2013 \u2013 up 21.9% at constant currency (17.1% at  actual currency) compared to the same period in 2012. Revenue in Q3 2013 alone stood 1.16m \u2013 up 27.7% at a constant rate on Q3 2012.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The figures include revenues from EMI, which UMG didn&#8217;t own in Q3 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Excluding revenues from EMI Music, which was acquired at the end of  September 2012, revenues increased 0.9% at constant currency over the  nine months year-on-year and 6.7% in Q3 2013 alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Digital sales at the company represented 53.9% of recorded music  sales for the first nine months of the year compared to 47.6% in 2012. UMG EBITA stood at \u20ac255m \u2013 up 12.5% at constant currency and 7.1% actual, compared to the first nine months of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Excluding restructuring and integration costs, EBITA was up 19.9% in Q3 at constant currency.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UMG parent Vivendi says that cost-saving synergies planned for EMI  Music are on track and should reach the target of more than \u00a3100m by the  end of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Music Group saw revenues of \u20ac3.398 million (\u00a32.84m) in the first nine months of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}