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Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Business
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UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP BOARD PUBLISHES 2024 ANNUAL REPORT AND AGENDA FOR 2025 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
HILVERSUM, Netherlands, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Music Group N.V. ("UMG" or "the Company") today published its 2024 annual report and the agenda for its 2025 annual general meeting of shareholders ("2025 AGM"), which is to be held on May 14, 2025, starting at 2:00 p.m. CEST, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The agenda for the 2025 AGM and the other meeting materials, including the 2024 annual report, are available at: The 2024 annual report has also been filed with the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (the AFM) in European Single Electronic Format (ESEF). On the agenda for the 2025 AGM is the proposed re-appointment of Vincent Vallejo as Executive Director for a one-year term, as well as the proposed re-appointments of Sherry Lansing, Haim Saban and Luc van Os as Non-Executive Directors for a two-year term. Other voting items on the agenda for the 2025 AGM are the advisory vote on the 2024 remuneration report, the adoption of the 2024 financial statements, the adoption of the dividend proposal, the discharge of the Executive and Non-Executive Directors, the adoption of a revised Executive Directors' Remuneration Policy, and the authorization of the Board as the competent body to repurchase and cancel own shares. The 2024 financial statements, 2024 remuneration report and sustainability statement are included in the 2024 annual report. About Universal Music GroupAt Universal Music Group (EURONEXT: UMG), we exist to shape culture through the power of artistry. UMG is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content. Featuring the most comprehensive catalogue of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. For more information on Universal Music Group N.V., visit ContactsMediaJames Murtagh-Hopkins – communicationsnl@ InvestorsErika Begun – investorrelations@ Forward-looking statementsThis press release may contain statements that constitute forward-looking statements relating to UMG's financial condition, results of operations, business, strategy and plans. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as 'profit forecast', 'expect', 'estimate', 'project', 'anticipate', 'should', 'intend', 'plan', 'probability', 'risk', 'target', 'aspiration', 'objective', 'will', 'endeavour', 'optimistic', 'prospects', 'outlook' and similar expressions or variations on such expressions or the negative of such expressions. Although UMG believes that such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, they are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ materially from such forward-looking statements as a result of a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are related to factors that are outside UMG's control, including, but not limited to, UMG's inability to compete successfully and to identify, attract, sign and retain successful recording artists and songwriters, failure of streaming and subscription adoption or revenue to grow or to grow less rapidly than anticipated, UMG's reliance on digital service providers, UMG's inability to execute its business strategy, the global nature of UMG's operations, changes in global economic and financial conditions, UMG's inability to protect its intellectual property and against piracy, challenges related to generative AI, UMG's inability to attract and retain key personnel, UMG's restructuring and reorganization activities, UMG's acquisitions and other investments, changes in laws and regulations (and UMG's compliance therewith), UMG's inability to meet expectations with respect to ESG-related matters and the other risks that have been described in the 2024 annual report. Accordingly, UMG cautions readers against placing undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release. UMG disclaims any intention or obligation to provide, update or revise any such forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Universal Music Group N.V. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ask Chris: Who was the first female movie executive?
FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, Sherry Lansing made headlines around the world when the former math-teacher-turned-model-turned-actress-turned-executive broke the glass ceiling of the movie industry by being named head of 20th Century Fox. The Oscar-nominated producer was honored with footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Lansing's appointment was a milestone, but not the first time ladies were in charge. 'Bottom line,' historian Mindy Johnson, author of Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation, says, 'there were more women in power — in front of and behind the camera — in the silent era, than there are today.' In 1912, actor/writer/director Lois Weber took over Universal's Rex Motion Picture brand. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were dating when they teamed up with Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith to launch their United Artists studio in 1919. Another actress, Mabel Normand, became a director and ran the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company. 'The whole industry was small studios,' Johnson says. 'And many were owned and run by women.' Marion Fairfax, who adapted the dinosaur action epic The Lost World in 1925, was one of the women who formed her own production company. Producer Margaret Winkler was a titan in the animation industry, distributing Felix the Cat, Fleischer cartoons, and Walt Disney's first films. In 1945, Virginia Van Upp, who had written and produced hit films for Rita Hayworth, was chosen by Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn to supervise all production at stat studio, the last time a woman would hold that position for many years. Said Lansing in 1980, 'I hope as the new decade goes on, the appointment of a woman to a major post will not be so noteworthy: That it will become natural for women to have high positions in every industry.'
