Introduction to Cadiz Music Ltd

Cadiz Music is a dynamic SALES, MARKETING, DISTRIBUTION and LABEL MANAGEMENT company working with established distribution companies on a worldwide basis within the music industry. Cadiz Music is a flexible music company built on solid foundations working successfully in what is currently a volatile business. 

Cadiz Music distributes new releases and catalogue on CD and DVD across the world. Cadiz Music can project manage for labels or individual artists from the origination and manufacture and create marketing and promotion plans for specific releases. 

Cadiz Music has built a select label base for exclusive distribution and representation picked from amongst the best of independents. As the major labels drift further into a cycle of declining sales and homogenised artist development, Cadiz Music exists to represent the exceptional from the genres of roots, folk, country, world, reggae, blues, rock, metal, punk, jazz and soundtracks, ranging from labels of long standing with major catalogues to artist-owned independent enterprises. 

Cadiz also owns and controls several labels so that can be utilised on behalf of an artist to release singles or albums thus allowing the artist to concentrate on the music / creative whilst Cadiz takes care of business, logistics etc. Releases can be licensed to Cadiz or joint venture deals with the artist. 

Cadiz believes passionately in "bricks and mortar" retail and the importance of the retail experience to the genuine music fan. They understand this because the company is staffed first and foremost by music fans who still buy records, pay to go to concerts and get excited by the inspirational creativity of recording artists. Cadiz is also very much part of the future and has launched Cadiz Digital, a download music distribution company in order to supply music to the music internet companies such as iTunes, Napster, HMV Digital, Virgin Digital etc. 

Cadiz Music was developed in early 2003 and officially commenced trading on 1st May 2003. Cadiz has sold over 1,000,000 units (CDs and DVDs) and has achieved a turnover in excess of £10 million since its inception.

Cadiz Music staff have a combined music industry experience of 150 years.  Their backgrounds range from major label and record company management through to distribution, retail, promotion, marketing and digital downloading.

From the muddy banks of the River Thames

The fabled Spanish city of Cadiz (founded 1100 BC) is the oldest city in the Western World and the one that established the first major Atlantic bridgehead between Europe and the New World. 

The town of Greenwich, the great maritime centre and the home of time itself (Greenwich Mean Time) sits on an eastern bend on London’s River Thames, opposite the Isle of Dogs.

In 1805, it was some thirty miles south of Cadiz, at Cabo de Trafalgar, that Lord Horatio Nelson died whilst the navy he commanded triumphed. Nelson’s body was brought back to Greenwich and "laid in state" at the Royal Hospital before his final journey up the Thames for his funeral on 8th January 1806 at St Paul’s cathedral.

Cadiz Music takes its inspiration from the rich history of both Cadiz and Greenwich and is proud to be located at the mouth of Deptford Creek where it meets the Thames, five minutes from the centre of historic Greenwich in South East London. Cadiz Music enjoys views across the Thames to the commercial centre of Canary Wharf and to the west the river bends round to the city of London.

Cadiz also has an office in the West End of London, in Denmark Place, off Denmark Street - the original Tin Pan Alley, historically the heart of London's music scene.  Based within Enterprise music studios, Cadiz operates a sales and marketing office linking closely with all the key players in the music industry.

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