The UK’s music licensing company for over 130,000 performers and rightsholders liked the sound of Leicester and decided to make the city it’s official home some years ago. We asked the people of PPL PRS how they’re finding life in Leicester
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ack in 2017, a new business made its home in Leicester city centre. After much research of neighbouring cities, music licensing company PPL PRS chose the iconic Mercury Place building as its HQ. Leicester was chosen due to its excellent transport links to the capital, thriving local music scene and abundance of talented people keen to work for the business. Now, five years on, the company has weathered the Covid-19 storm, and is helping the music industry get back onto its feet, with the help of the thousands of businesses across the country who play music to their customers and employees and pay for TheMusicLicence. The fee paid for the licence, after operating costs, is paid back to the music creators and rightsholders, who are members of its parent companies PPL and PRS for Music, as royalties. This helps to ensure that they can continue to create and perform the music we all enjoy hearing every day. Aside from issuing TheMusicLicence though, PPL PRS has also spent the last five years becoming a part of the Leicester business community, supporting charities and events, sponsoring awards and creating partnerships with other local businesses to help build on the already very strong sense of a ‘commercial family’ that is present here in Leicester. On being part of that community, Managing Director Andrea Gray says: “It really is like an extended family unit,
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