All Entertainment articles – Page 40
-
AnalysisIn the news: HMV new digital boss James Coughlan profiled
Former Vodafone executive James Coughlan has been appointed to head up HMV’s new digital business. Retail Week takes a look at the entertainment retailer’s new hire.
-
NewsHMV hires former Vodafone executive James Coughlan for digital launch
HMV owner Hilco Capital has hired former Vodafone executive James Coughlan to head its new digital business, which is set to launch in October, Retail Week can reveal.
-
OpinionComment: What Bezos's Washington Post deal says about retail and HMV
Amazon is as much a media business as it is a retailer, so are there retail lessons to be learned from the etailer’s founder Jeff Bezos’s acquisition of US newspaper the Washington Post?
-
NewsHMV to return to its original Oxford Street store
HMV has confirmed it is to return to 363 Oxford Street where it opened its first store more than 90 years ago.
-
NewsConsumer confidence in July soars to highest level since 2010
Consumer confidence in July rose to its highest level since April 2010 as consumers felt more positive about the economy and their finances.
-
NewsGame on the hunt for Christmas pop-up stores
Game is on the hunt for a raft of pop-up stores to capitalise on a predicted video game console buying frenzy this Christmas.
-
NewsFormer HMV worker turns entertainment retailer on its head with new store
A former HMV staffer in Londonderry, who worked for the entertainment retailer before its administration, irked the brand’s owners by opening a shop called HVM.
-
NewsTesco-owned Blinkbox offers free pilot episodes promotion
Tesco-owned video streaming service Blinkbox is offering a ‘try before you buy’ deal where customers can watch the pilot episodes of series before purchasing.
-
AnalysisOnline retail searches: What do retailers need to know
The BRC Google Online Retail Monitor today revealed that the total number of retail searches on Google jumped 15% in the second quarter of 2013. Retail Week takes a closer look.
-
NewsFormer HMV worker forced to change name of HVM start-up
A former HMV worker who opened an entertainment shop called HVM has been forced to flip the shop’s fascia upside down after HMV complained.
-
NewsBookseller Ottakar's founder James Heanage releases his own novel
We haven’t heard much from James Heneage, the founder of Ottakar’s, since the bookseller was sold to Waterstones in 2006.
-
NewsGrocers snap up HMV's entertainment market share following store closures
The grocers have snatched market share from HMV after its store closures sent it slipping down to the UK’s fifth largest entertainment retailer.
-
NewsWHSmith trials franchising to expand its store network
WHSmith has started a trial franchising of its brand to independent newsagents in a bid to expand its network.
-
GalleryStore gallery: Xbox joins Boxpark with new pop-up store
There will be those who are inclined to say that the days of the high street computer game retailer are over, and that this category has become an integral part of the online world and we won’t see its physical like again.
-
NewsHMV relocates head office to London's Blackfriars
HMV has relocated its headquarters from London’s West End to the Blackfriars area of the capital.
-
NewsAnalysis: Reborn Game ready to cash in on new consoles
Just 15 months after video game specialist Game plunged into administration, chief executive Martyn Gibbs is feeling positive about the future.
-
NewsGame opens dedicated Xbox store in partnership with Microsoft
Game has collaborated with Microsoft to open the UK’s first dedicated Xbox store at Boxpark in east London
-
AnalysisRetail Week's 25th anniversary: Two decades of births, marriages and farewells
New arrivals and mega-mergers have shaped the industry, while some well-known names have disappeared.
-
OpinionComment: Nick Bubb on 25 years of dramatic change in retail
Retailing in 25 years time will be very different, but it will change as dramatically as it has in the last 25 years?
-
NewsHMV to return to its famous 1921 Oxford Street store
Entertainment retailer HMV plans to reopen the first store it ever opened, on London’s Oxford Street, two months after it was rescued out of administration.