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Beggars Group bargain.
In snapping up Rough Trade for #800,000 last week, Beggars Group has surely secured itself a bargain. In an era when football clubs across the country are regularly snapped up by speculators with a few million quid in their pocket and the taste for a trophy acquisition, it is perhaps surprising that music assets do not attract similar interest. If they did, a label such as Rough Trade would be a prime candidate.
For the fraction of the cost of a lower-division football club, a smart investor could have taken a significant stake in one of the UK's most recognised and respected alternative music brands.
Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee have been behind the evolution and breakthrough of some of British music's greatest alternative names, including The Smiths, Belle & Sebastian, ...
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