Universal Music Group (UMG)

Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world’s leading music company and is comprised of two core businesses: recorded music and music publishing.
It is also the world's leading music company representing 98% of the music market and has licensees in 77 countries. The company discovers, develops, markets and distributed recorded music through a network of subsidiaries.

Who owns the company?
The universal music group is owned by Vivendi.

Where is it based? In which countries does it have offices?
UMG’s corporate headquarters are located at 2220 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, New York. UMG has offices in over 40 different countires including: Greece, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Russia, Italy, Spain and Denmark.

Is it part of the same company as:
1) A music publishing group? UMG is part of a music publishing company called the Universal Music publishing group (UMPG). UMPG owns or administers more than 1 million copyrights and They are one of the largest music publishing businesses in the world with more than 47 offices in 41 countries.
2) A music distribution company?
In the U.S., Universal Music Group Distribution has been the industry market share leader for the past ten years and consists of four major divisions: Universal Music Distribution (UMD), Fontana, Vivendi Entertainment (VE), and UMGD Digital. Although in some markets outside the U.S., UMG companies handle their own distribution and sales.