Reservoir Media Releases Its Inaugural ESG Report
July 29 2022 - 7:00AM
Reservoir Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSVR) (“Reservoir” or the
“Company”), an award-winning independent music company, today
issued its inaugural Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
Report, which details the Company’s global ESG objectives and
progress made against those objectives, and reinforces the
Company’s strong commitment to corporate social responsibility.
Golnar Khosrowshahi, Founder and Chief Executive
Officer of Reservoir, stated, “We are proud to release our first
ESG report within our first year as a public company, as it shows
our commitment to making a positive impact for all our
stakeholders, including our employees, communities, clients,
shareholders, and industry. Music has a powerful and growing global
influence, and Reservoir and our roster of creators will aim to
extend our impact to promote sustainability efforts, diversity, and
advocacy at our company and beyond.”
Highlights from the report include:
Environmental Impact and Combatting
Climate Change
- The majority of Reservoir’s assets
are held digitally, with only 9% of our total revenue generated
from physical product.
- The Company completes 99% of its
royalty distributions electronically and will continue to strive to
fully eliminate physical distributions.
Social Responsibility and
Diversity
- Reservoir is proud to be founded
and led by a woman, a key distinguishing factor from our industry
peers, and boasts that women hold 49% of senior leadership
positions (Vice President and above) across many departments and
business areas at the company.
- The Company conducted an Employee
Satisfaction Survey in 2022, with an 85% response rate from its
people. Notably, 89% of respondents answered Strongly Agree or
Agree with the following statement: “I am proud of the diversity on
Reservoir’s Team.” Additionally, 93% of respondents certified they
Agree or Strongly Agree that they are they are proud of the
diversity of the company’s roster of creators.
- Reservoir had no turnover from the
senior executive team and a turnover rate of 6.25% among full-time
staff for Fiscal Year 2022, which is well under the national rate
of 57.3%, according to the 2021 Bureau of Labor Statistics
report.
Governance and Oversight
- On average, Reservoir Board members
have 19 years of leadership experience across music, entertainment,
and finance.
- 7 out of 9 Board members are
Non-Employee Directors and considered independent, as defined by
NASDAQ rules.
About Reservoir Media, Inc.
Reservoir is an independent music company based
in New York City and with offices in Los Angeles, Nashville,
Toronto, London, and Abu Dhabi. Reservoir is the first
female-founded and led publicly traded independent music company in
the U.S. Founded as a family-owned music publisher in 2007,
Reservoir has grown to represent over 140,000 copyrights and 36,000
master recordings with titles dating as far back as 1900 and
hundreds of #1 releases worldwide. Reservoir holds a regular Top 10
U.S. Market Share according to Billboard’s Publishers Quarterly,
was twice named Publisher of the Year by Music Business Worldwide’s
The A&R Awards, and won Independent Publisher of the Year at
both the 2020 and 2022 Music Week Awards.
Reservoir also represents a multitude of
recorded music through Chrysalis Records, Tommy Boy Records, and
Philly Groove Records and manages artists through its ventures with
Blue Raincoat Music and Big Life Management.
Media ContactReservoir Media, Inc.Suzy
ArrabitoVice President, Marketing &
Communicationssa@reservoir-media.comwww.reservoir-media.com
Investor ContactAlpha IR GroupAlec Buchmelter or
Alec SteinbergRSVR@alpha-ir.com
Source: Reservoir Media, Inc.
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