EMI revamp: finally starting with a global approach

Link: EMI Names Executive Survivors; Ames Remains — Digital Music News.

"As I explained in the webcast, EMI needs to be able to capitalise on A&R's creative output and respond to consumer trends rapidly, and on a global scale," Hands detailed. "This means that we will move from a regional business model to a global functional model in which the primary reporting lines are aligned to the functions and not to geographical location

Finally, a major record company with a global structure. It takes guts to make drastic changes, and EMI seems to have them, now.