HMV – the market for DVDs fell by over 30% this Christmas. HMV is about to appoint administrators for the second time in six years, putting more than 2,200 jobs at risk. The music and film retailer will call in […]
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Mobile is often cast as the villain for retailer brands – stealing away consumers to a potentially limitless range of competitors. It has been reported that in many areas we have seen the demise of the high street during the
If you can’t stand the heat… Only a few months ago, the Arctic chill that engulfed the UK was blamed, at least in part, for the month of poor retail sales that saw HMV, Jessops and Blockbuster all call in
David Millward reveals that airlines which cancel flights will have to book passengers on rival carriers if they cannot offer one of their own within 12 hours, under a new package of EU consumer measures to be unveiled today.
Asda is interested in buying HMV’s brand and business and is not just looking to purchase former HMV stores to convert into convenience food shops, the Telegraph reported, without saying where it got the information. Asda, Britain’s second-biggest supermarket group, has
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By Scott Logie, strategic marketing director, St Ives Group I had the pleasure recently of sitting through the filming of some key commentators in the retail space, discussing key themes around areas such the death of the weekly shop; the
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In the course of seven subsequent tweets, Poppy Rose Cleere, the company’s newly axed 21-year-old online marketing and social media planner , aired HMV’s dirty laundry to the world: the “mass execution” of loyal workers; gross mismanagement at the head
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By Dan Mortimer, CEO of Red Ant With the demise of Blockbuster, HMV and Jessops, once again chatter moves to the death of the high street. The mistake here is in continuing to see the emergence of digital as the
The Sunday Times : The world’s biggest music labels and film studios are assembling a multimillion-pound rescue package to prevent HMV from going out of business.
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Trading in HMV shares on the London Stock Exchange is being suspended, the company said in a statement. HMV, which was started in 1921, has struggled against online retailing. The company’s troubles underline the gloom on the High Street and
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