EMI Music Publishing has announced the launch of a new UK based Producer Management division. The move follows an expansion of the publisher's relationship with songwriter Salaam Remi last year in which EMI took on a producer management role. Producer manager Anna Carpenter will join the company to head up the new division.
EMI Music Publishing MD Guy Moot explains: "We are constantly looking for new ventures to diversify into which can run harmoniously alongside our core business. I've been approached to handle producers a number of times in the past and I've long felt that there were many synergies between a music publisher's creative department and producer management, so we made the first steps in with Salaam. This has been an organic development rather than a bolted on new business venture. We're now ready to make a big commitment to the business and I think we've got the person who is best qualified to evolve this into a fully fledged management division in Anna".