Jesusfreakhideout.com Music News, February 2013: EMI CMG DISTRIBUTION ANNOUNCES EXPANDED RELATIONSHIP WITH CANZION GROUP, LP IN THE UNITED STATES AND PUERTO RICO

EMI CMG DISTRIBUTION ANNOUNCES EXPANDED RELATIONSHIP WITH CANZION GROUP, LP IN THE UNITED STATES AND PUERTO RICO

NEWS SOURCE: Merge PR
February 19, 2013

NASHVILLE, TENN. -February 19, 2013 - EMI CMG Distribution is excited to announce an expanded relationship with CanZion Group, LP for the United States and Puerto Rico. Effective immediately CanZion will represent EMI CMG Distribution's complete new release schedule and catalog to the CBA stores serving the Latino community in the U.S. and Puerto Rico including all English titles.

Greg Bays, Senior Vice President of sales and marketing for EMI CMG Distribution said: "We are thrilled to be expanding our relationship with CanZion into the CBA stores that serve the Latino community with our entire release schedule and catalog. Previously CanZion primarily focused on our Spanish product so this will be a great opportunity for all of our titles. We are looking forward to working together to serve the Latino CBA stores."

Luis Quinelli, the CEO of CanZion Group, LP also commented: "We are very pleased to be part of an expanded relationship with EMI CMG Distribution. Together, we will be working to transform the way that we serve the Latino Christian community in the United States and Puerto Rico. In our expanded role we have strategically designed a way to service the entire EMI CMG Distribution catalog to the stores in these markets through CanZion Group, LP. This new development is a wonderful opportunity to continue to bless the growing Latino Christian community.

As part of their expanded role, CanZion will offer a range of new marketing and sales services exclusively to their Latino customers. Some of these expanded services will include increased focus on the top English-language as well as Spanish-language product both new release and core inventory titles.

Also a wide range of CD and DVD products will be made available and prominently highlighted as a newly developed feature on CanZion Group's official website. CanZion will regularly update a list of Best-selling Core Inventory titles for the benefit of their Latino CBA accounts and will provide additional resources including in-store DVD loops as well as other marketing and sales materials.

ABOUT CANZION GROUP, LP (http://www.canzion.com/)
In 1987, Marcos Witt founded CanZion with the vision to edify the Body of Christ through the production and distribution of Spanish Christian Music in Mexico, and subsequently other countries. Later in 2000, due to exceptional growth and multinational success in Latin America and the United States, the organization became a parent company and owner of other subsidiaries such as CanZion-a music label and distribution company with offices in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Puerto Rico; Instituto CanZion-a school that prepares worship leaders and music ministers, present in 23 nations of the world today; Lidere-a leadership organization which has equipped over 500,000 Christian leaders in Latin America over the past 13 years; CanZion Editora-a music publishing entity responsible for the administration of songwriters' royalties; CanZion Eventos-in charge of organizing concerts and events for artists of the CanZion label; CanZion Films-a film production and distribution company founded in 2009, that specializes in bringing faith-based entertainment to movie theaters; CanZion Digital-the most recent company, which has developed "Nuhbe", the first digital Spanish Christian music downloading platform.

ABOUT EMI CMG DISTRIBUTION (www.emicmgdistribution.com):
EMI CMG Distribution was founded in 1994 to serve as the main distribution outlet for EMI CMG's owned and distributed labels to the US Christian and general retail marketplace, and the international Christian marketplace. Since this distribution division was launched, EMI CMG has had more charting titles annually on Billboard'sTop Christian charts than any other Christian distributor and has been namedBillboard Magazine's Top Christian Music Distributor 15 times since 1995. In addition to distributing Capitol Christian Music Group's fully-owned labels, which include Sparrow, ForeFront, and Credential imprints, as well as EMI Gospel and Worship Together, EMI CMG Distribution has exclusive distribution agreements with BEC/Tooth & Nail, Centricity Records, Dream Records, Gaither Music Group, Green Hill Productions, Hal Leonard, Inpop, Hillsong, sixsteps records, Sonoma Music, Maranatha! Music, North Point Music, Spring Hill Music Group, Troubadour for the Lord, Universal Music Group, VSR Music Group, Anchor Bay Entertainment/Starz, Creative Trust Media, Family Movie Night, Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment, Guardian Studios/Bananas, Jellyfish Labs, Millennium Media Services, Pure Flix Entertainment, Whitestone Media, Worthy Publishing, Authentic Publishers and many more. EMI CMG Distribution is a division of Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company.

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