Verner Bach Pedersen Email & Phone Number

Copenhagen, Dk

Music Manager is a family-owned asset management company built from decades of experience on the international market. The company is specialised in managing, optimising, exploiting, and monetizing music catalogues on behalf of independent artists, labels, investors, and studios.With a well-experienced team, integrated networks, streamlined processes and bespoke technologies, Music Manager operates with a flexible end-to-end ecosystem to service music copyrights and video assets of all sorts.By 2022, Music Manager manages more than 250,000 assets on behalf of more than 40 partners worldwide, with more than 23,000 products on the global digital market, an extensive range of physical releases and many featured music license deals to major movies, tv series, and adverts.The Danish operational service company partnered with a UK-based tech company in 2017 and the parties later joined forces under the brand Music Manager in 2019. Music Manager consolidated together with the extensive asset portfolio Marathon Media International in 2022 under the Music Holding Company group.

Sandrew Metronome was acquired from Schibsted Group in Norway in 2013. The Group includes a great film catalogue with international movies and a well-experienced distribution company with direct sales and deliveries to all the Nordic digital platforms and TV stations.The Sandrew Metronome brand has been a major part of the Nordic Entertainment heritage since back in 1930's. An internationally respected film company that has historically participated in all parts of film distribution. The company has since the beginning only had 3 owners.

Imperial Film was acquired in 2012 together with an existing portfolio of international classic movies such as the Blockbusters Lionheart and Black Eagle with Jean Claude van Damme, Blast, Split Second, Double Dragon and 25 other great classics – all developed in full HD format.

Kino Club is a unique streaming film club concept with application available across web, mobile and TV featuring well-curated movies and home entertainment in association with local loyalty members clubs and subscription schemes.Kino Club is fully developed with live product and 1,000+ hours of available content. The concept is currently under management of Sandrew Metronome.

Nordjylland, Danmark

For 25 years, Bellevue Entertainment was an international player specialized in physical and conceptual music products. The company worked with a very strong global network and has released several high-profile products on the market, including the For Dummies series, Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, Award Winning Safari series and several music concept compilations titles including 100 Hits and 300 Hits series. Bellevue Entertainment has been a major player on the international vinyl market as well

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Marathon Media International Ltd. was acquired from its Founder in 2014 together with an existing portfolio of 150,000+ music recording rights. Marathon Media International was formed in 1991 to fulfil a gap in the market for reliable repertoire for record labels specialising in low price product.The company quickly became one of the leaders in the field, partially due to its representation of catalogues featuring internationally recognised artists, and the company has produced albums with leading names including Candi Staton, Jimmy Ruffin, Bucks Fizz, The Three Degrees, Odyssey, Dollar, The Gibson Brothers, Marmalade and many more. By holding on to the recording/master rights, the company created an extensive catalogue with long track-record of repeating popularity and commercial output.Marathon Media International consolidated with Music Manager in 2022 under the Music Holding Company group.

Jammerbugt, Nordjylland, Danmark

22 years of passionate work to help bring my local amateur football club from Danish Serie 3 to 1st Divison (a leap across 6 leagues), including the development of an elite division to form a professional club.Now operating as Jammerbugt Fodbold Club, the club is today playing the Danish 2nd Division. They play at Jetsmark Stadion in Pandrup, North Jutland. The club was former known as Jetsmark IF, which still is the name of the amateur department, and has also been known as Blokhus FC between 2008 and 2013.

Blokhus, Nordjylland, Danmark

Visionary and Major Developer behind the complete transformation of the city of Blokhus based on an accumulated real estate portfolio including most commercial and cultural buildings of the city, beach and outdoors activities, the local newspaper company, and the local sports club.

Scanbox Entertainment was acquired together with management in 2004. The company is one of the leading Nordic film distributors with international film licenses for the Nordic market and a long list of Nordic film productions.Sold the majority of the shares to an Icelandic consortium in 2006 and I exited the company in 2008.

Aalborg, Nordjylland, Danmark

AaB (internationally referred to as Aalborg BK) is a professional football team located in Aalborg and a public listed company. The club is represented in the Danish Superliga and has won four Danish football Championships and three Danish Cup trophies. Most recently the team won the double in 2014.

Nordjylland, Danmark

CMC Records is a Danish record company 1993 by the brothers Benny and Verner Bach Pedersen, after the sale of Elap Music in 1992. The independent company grew from nothing to a market share in Denmark of 15% and to expand internationally they partnered with Rothschild Investment Trust (RIT Capital Partners plc.). CMC Records was sold to EMI Records in 1997.The company’s releases ranged from Danish and international rock and pop music to classical and schlager and Danish top music, as well as low-priced compilation albums. CMC has, among other things, published popular Danish artists such as Shu-Bi-Dua, Bamses Venner, Poul Krebs, Kandis, Lars Lilholt Band, and Big Fat Snake. On the international market, the company has been behind publications with e.g. Kenny Rogers, Sailor, Richard Clayderman, John Denver, and Smokie. The company also became known for selling their CDs in European supermarkets and petrol stations, as well as for making extensive use of television campaigns. In 1993, CMC bought the record company Harlekin, which was responsible for publishing Danish top music. In the mid-1990s, CMC opened the subdivisions Smash Records and Happy One Records focusing on dance and pop music. In 1995, the company acquired the state of the art recording studio, Puk studios where Elton John og George Michael among others recorded albums. In 1999, the company created RecArt, which released rock-influenced names like Andrew Strong, Flemming Jørgensen, and Gnags.CMC was sold to the multinational EMI Records in 1997, and later became part of the holding company MBO Group in 2004.

Storbritannien

Responsible for all European markets outside of the UK.

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Major international player at the time with 40% market share of the UK alone.

Nordjylland, Danmark

A leading Nordic distributor of Entertainment products which developed several disruptive shop-in-shop concepts for Entertainment products and was the first to sell music and video products to supermarkets and petrol stations in the Nordic territory.Elap Music was sold in 1989 to the privately listed Pickwick Group plc. in the UK which later became part of Carlton Communication group.