Universal backed over EMI takeover

Press Association

Updated

Universal Music Group has won the qualified support of two North American artists' unions for its proposed 1.9 billion US dollars (£1.193bn) acquisition of the recorded music division of the UK's EMI Group Ltd.

The unions gave their conditional backing in letters sent last week to the Federal Trade Commission.

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