CTS EVENTIM expands Live Entertainment business in Italy

CTS EVENTIM expands Live Entertainment business in Italy

A fresh press release announces that CTS EVENTIM - one amonge the international leaders in the Ticketing and Live Entertainment market - is acquiring 60% of the shares in Friends and Partners, Ferdinando Salzano’s new primary company operating in the music and live entertainment sector in Italy.

The document explains:

All of F&P Group’s current main activities will become part of Friends & Partners by October 1 2018, at the latest.
Following the acquisition of Vertigo in September, CTS EVENTIM will thus have an additional mainstay on the Italian Live Entertainment market. In the Ticketing segment, the company has been present in Italy since 2007 with market leader TicketOne.

The more than 40 artists whose tours are organised by F&P Group include national stars such as Claudio Baglioni, Ligabue, Gianna Nannini, Nek, Laura Pausini, Il Volo and Zucchero. The company also produces concert films and music TV formats for all the major Italian TV stations.