Hal Leonard Corporation (Milwaukee, WI) has acquired CMP Technology's (New York) Backbeat Books (San Francisco, CA) division, a producer of music reference books, for $2.2 million.Hal Leonard Corporation Hal Leonard Corporation is a US sheet music publishing company. It is the largest sheet music publisher in the world. (Milwaukee, WI) has acquired CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information Technology's (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) Backbeat Books (San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CA) division, a producer of music reference books, for $2.2 million. Under terms of the agreement, Hal Leonard has purchased the existing Backbeat catalogue and will continue to create new titles under the Backbeat name. The catalogue contains nearly 200 publications, including references, instructional books for musicians, band biographies and memoirs, and books on equipment, music software, recording techniques and the music industry. The catalogue also includes a number of titles associated with three magazines CMP recently sold to Newbay Media (New York), including "Bass Player," "Guitar Player" and "Keyboard." Hal Leonard produces songbooks, sheet music, educational publications, references and related CDs and DVDs for the music industry. |
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