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Asking Price
£200k
Description
URZ Co owns a catalogue of over 100 CD album masters of which some 80 are wholly owned for full period of copyright. The remainder are under long term license from the BBC. URZ Co also owns over 300 individual copyrights for the duration of the protected copyright period. (Currently, European and the UK law is 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the author dies) All copyrights are UK and Europe originated. Owning the rights in both the song and the recording is a clear advantage in today's Music and Entertainment Industry. URZ Co agreements both include to 100% the exploitation rights for any and all media, including mobile devices, Interactive DVDs, WEB TV, digital and Satellite TV content exploitation by means of Digital Streaming for B2B and end consumer use, worldwide. NO THIRD PARTY CLEARANCE REQUIRED! URZ Co NPS was on average £38,200 for the financial years 2000 to 2006. We have excellent accountants and so the profit figures are low! However turnover in the same period was in the range £60k to £80k each year. URZ Co has just begun to advertise on television, dipping its toe in the water last Autumn with Sky TV. We have just appointed a PR company. URZ Co catalogue contains hit artists such as Lonnie Donegan, Kenny Ball, Humphrey Lyttelton, Chris Barber, Acker Bilk, Alex Welsh in the Jazz genre. Carlos Bonell (currently working with Sir Paul McCartney) and Carey Blyton (Bananas in Pyjamas fame) in the Classical genre. Sir Cliff Richard and Helen Hobson headline the Musicals genre. URZ Co is proud to be the exclusive label for the live recordings of the late, great Lonnie Donegan. Turnover levels are such that potential investors will recoup a substantial part of their investment within the first year of operation even if the company is left to trade as is. This is a highly respectable rate of return which can be increased by the owners exploiting the catalogue to its full potential. The guideline price is £200,000 which includes: Masters Stock in hand Publishing Catalogue Domain Name Excellent Mail order database with loyal customers On Line shop which provide 5-10% of annual turnover SOME HIT PRODUCTS FROM URZ Co Upbeat doesn't actually have any hits as such ......What we do have is HIT ARTISTS BY THE TON......re-worked hits and the potential for hits in the right hands. Read on
. In the 1960s, Chris Barber, The Temperance Seven, Kenny Ball, Lonnie Donegan, Acker Bilk all had number one hits. Terry Lightfoot was also in the hit parade. We have lots of albums of these wonderful jazz guys. These albums are the mainstay of our catalogue. The first and second Temperance Seven albums for example have sold in excess of 4000 units each and continue to sell well. We have all the British Jazz greats on our label - as mentioned above - but also including Alex Welsh, George Melly, George Chisholm. We also have great American musicians like Jimmy Rushing in unique recordings by Joe Meek with Humphrey Lyttelton, Vic Lewis, Sydney Bechet, Kid Ory, George Lewis. Louis Armstrong, Joe Turner - the list is endless and reads like a WHO'S WHO OF JAZZ. We also have the complete history of British Traditional Jazz as mirrored by BBC recordings from the 1950s to the 1970s. No other record company has anything to compare with this. Cliff Richard is an incredible HIT ARTIST and we have one unique track of him singing a love duet with Helen Hobson from their Heathcliffe days. EMI did show interest in having this track as a "B" side or equivalent to one of Cliff's hits a few years ago. There is huge potential here and just this one track alone, which we own, could bring in the amount of money that we're selling the record company for - in the right hands. Classical artists don't have hits as such, although we have Carlos Bonell, guitar, who is currently helping Sir Paul McCartney with his guitar concerto - which will be a classical hit. We have three albums featuring Carlos. The Private Collection (URCD145) , Richard Baker's Favourite Guitar Music (URCD140) and also The Carlos Bonell Ensemble (classical crossover) (URCD128). Carey Blyton, author of the celebrated children's icon Bananas in Pyjamas, chose URZ Co as his preferred record company for what we consider to be his best works all of his choral music, his song repertoire, his chamber music and an unique, quirky album Sherlock Holmes Meets Dr Who (URCD148). Gary James, one of our artists for whom we own all the publishing has enormous potential with his songs - a mixture of pop/folk - a quasi twenty first century Bob Dylan. There is tremendous room for exploitation in compilation albums alone, across the classical, showbiz and jazz worlds. Of course we have Sherlock Holmes Meets Dr Who - a quirky album with huge cult potential that has not yet been reached. We also own some Dr Who material on the publishing side. The BBC has been preparing to release all the Dr Who material and our owned titles are in the planning stages. Full and better particulars can be obtained on receipt of a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement.
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