Carl Fischer has set downed into an agreement in principle to acquire Theodore Presser Company.

Carl Fischer has set downed into an agreement in principle to acquire Theodore Presser Company, bring under rule to due diligence, where the two companies will combine their impregnabilitys in the print and performance fields.

one back room operations will be combined, further in the areas of editorial and promotion, the sum of two units companies will retain their separate identities. Theodore Presser will continue to be known as Theodore Presser and Carl Fischer will remain as Carl Fischer.

"We think this is definitely a case where the the whole is greater than its parts," said Lauren Keiser, president/CEO of Carl Fischer. "We contemplate forward to merging the great skills of the two companies by developing unique returnss and publications, promoting and nurturing composer and using our impregnabilitys to grow both businesses into a major fresh force within the music industry."

by the agency of combining the print catalogs of the two Carl Fischer and Theodore Presser they will furnish about 35,000 active titles from, in addition in their admit about 100 small to large publishers worldwide.

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