query: which hmv stores are open?

title: Broadway Shopping Centre, Bexleyheath

text: relevant store; the 2010 H&M and New Look stores, and the 2011 River Island store, introduced retail space on the first floor as part of the remodelling process to develop their retail space. Additionally, some stores have used internal mezzanine ceilings to create a 'false' upper level in their stores, though none are currently open using this format; the former HMV, Next and Waterstones (later JD Sports) stores did this, though the stores which replaced them do not - Select, Deichmann and EE having reverted these units to trading on a single retail level. The building encompasses three covered malls

title: His Master's Voice

text: was created as a separate company, leaving EMI with a 43% stake. The firm bought the Waterstones chain of bookshops and merged them with Dillons the UK booksellers. In 2002 it floated on the London Stock Exchange as HMV Group plc, leaving EMI with only a token holding. HMV shops in Australia, Ireland, and the UK also use the Nipper trademark. HMV applied for trademark status in order to use Nipper at HMV stores in Canada but in 2010 abandoned the application, presumably because the rights to Nipper in Canada are part of the RCA brand portfolio now owned by

title: HMV Ireland

text: will redeem unused HMV vouchers purchased through the companies previous owners. HMV on Henry Street is the first to open on 6 September 2013 and will be opened by Irish band The Strypes. All other stores will open the following week, with the Dundrum store to open at a later date. On 29 August 2013 HMV Ireland also confirmed that 26 HMV concession stores will open in local Xtra-vision stores in Ireland. These dual branded stores (Xtra-vision / HMV) will open in Athlone, Ballina, Blackpool and Douglas in Cork, Carlow, Drogheda, Dundalk, Portlaoise, Ennis, and Galway, thus increasing HMV's presence

title: HMV Ireland

text: additional stores will reopen within the next six weeks these include HMV in Dublin's Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, Dundrum Town Centre and the Crescent Shopping Centre in Limerick. A fifth store is expected to open in Cork and possibly an additional store in Galway. HMV Ireland is to re-invest up to €4 million in its Irish stores and employ 100 people. It is also speculated that they hope to reopen on Dublin's Grafton Street in the future in a new location. On 27 August 2013 Hilco Ireland announced that HMV Ireland stores would open in early September and these stores

title: HMV Ireland

text: jobs. One of Dublin's HMV stores is set to be re-opened in a deal being negotiated. Stores in other parts of Ireland are also set to reopen following successful negotiations with landlords. On 9 June 2013 the "Sunday Independent" revealed Hilco Capital Ireland confirmed it has purchased HMV Ireland. Its new owners will reopen five stores in Ireland within the next six weeks. The new Irish flagship store will be based on Dublin's Henry Street. This store closed in February 2013 due to HMV Ireland Ltd. going into receivership. The Henry Street store will be the first to open and

title: HMV Ireland

text: and customers, leading to speculation that HMV Ireland would also enter administration. On 16 January 2013, HMV Ireland declared receivership, under Irish law; companies in receivership must close its stores with immediate effect and all Irish stores were closed until further notice. Deloitte Ireland was appointed receiver and are reportedly seeking a buyer for HMV's Irish stores. The National Consumer Agency in Ireland questioned the legal basis on which HMV in Ireland refused to honour gift vouchers and this criticism was later supported by accountancy agencies claiming that HMV Ireland Ltd. was not part of the HMV UK administration and

title: HMV

text: and one within the store. The trial was deemed a success, and it had been planned to open additional cinemas in HMV's Cheltenham store, and Waterstone's in Piccadilly, London. In June 2015, HMV relaunched an online store to accompany its existing music download service. Independently of the UK operations, one store in Singapore and five in Hong Kong trade under the HMV brand, and are owned by the private equity firm AID Partners. HMV stores stock a range of products including audio, books, Blu-ray discs, CDs, DVDs, video games, as well as an increasing range of movie, television and music

title: HMV

text: later renamed to HMV Digital China Group Limited. On 5 April 2013, Hilco UK announced that it had acquired HMV, taking the company out of administration and saving 141 of its stores and around 2,500 jobs. The total included 25 stores that had previously been selected for closure by Deloitte during the administration process. All 9 Fopp stores which HMV owned were also included in the purchase. Hilco also stated that it hoped to reopen an HMV store in Ireland following the closure of all stores in the country. The takeover deal was estimated at around £50 million. On 9

title: HMV

text: administration. In January 2015, HMV overtook Amazon to become the largest retailer of physical music in the UK. As of August 2014, HMV has 125 stores across the United Kingdom. HMV also operate eight stores in the UK under the Fopp brand. Following the purchase by Hilco UK, it was reported that the company was seeking to reduce the number of store staff across the business, as part of an effort to save £7.8 million on the wages budget. Stores would lose security staff, cashiers and supervisors, with managers required to provide cover. As of August 2016, All HMV stores

title: HMV

text: reaching over 320 stores including in 1990 their first store in the U.S. located at 86th and Lexington in New York City which was the largest music retailer in North America. HMV celebrated its 75-year anniversary in 1996. In February 1998, EMI entered into a joint venture with Advent International to form HMV Media Group led by Alan Giles, which acquired HMV's stores and Dillons, leaving EMI with a holding of around 45%. The new joint venture then bought the Waterstone's chain of bookshops to merge with Dillons. By 2002, EMI's holding in HMV Media was 43%, with Advent International

title: HMV Ireland

text: stores, in order to refocus HMV in Ireland as a new digital service (HMV Digital) where customers can stream, rent or purchase music and films online. The new HMV digital service will launch in Ireland before rolling out into the UK and Canada. All stores closed between 29 and 30 August. HMV stores stock a range of products including audio, books, Blu-ray Discs, CDs, computer software and hardware, DVDs, video games, posters, as well as an increasing range of clothing and fashion items HMV Ireland HMV Ireland was an entertainment retailing company operated in Ireland by Hilco Capital Ireland The

title: HMV Ireland

text: refusal of vouchers was unlawful prior to receivership. Since HMV Ireland's announcement of receivership staff located at HMV stores in Limerick and Cork refused to leave the premises based on the uncertainty whether they will get paid for December and early January. Deloitte confirmed on 19 January that all staff would be paid what they were owed, and that it was attempting to sell the Irish stores. It was confirmed on 12 February 2013 that all stores within Ireland are officially closed with immediate effect and HMV has left the Irish market place. It resulted in the loss of 300

title: HMV

text: an entertainment retailer, entered administration. On 14 January 2009 a placing announcement by HMV revealed that they intended to acquire 14 of Zavvi's stores. On 18 February 2009 five additional Zavvi stores were purchased by HMV Group, to be rebranded as HMV outlets. An additional former Zavvi store in Exeter's Princesshay development was also added. The acquisitions were investigated and cleared by the Office of Fair Trading in April 2009. In the 2008 MCV Industry Excellence Awards, HMV was given the title 'Entertainment Retailer of the Year'. In January 2009, HMV bought a 50% stake in MAMA Group, forming a

title: HMV

text: the company. On 16 January 2013, HMV Ireland declared receivership, and all Irish stores were closed. A week later, on 22 January 2013, it was reported that Hilco UK would buy the debt of HMV, a step towards potentially taking control of the company. The sale of HMV's Hong Kong and Singapore business to private equity firm Aid Partners was completed on 28 February 2013. On 5 April 2013, HMV was bought out of administration by Hilco UK for an estimated £50 million to form the current company. HMV Group plc, which had been listed on the London Stock Exchange

title: HMV Canada

text: successful at restructuring HMV Canada and there were no plans to cease operations despite rumours stating otherwise. Under CEO Nick Williams, HMV Canada focused on growing back-catalogue music and movies not found at discount rivals, while also carrying higher-margin merchandise like gifts, collectibles, clothing and headphones, while ditching video games and technology hardware. By contrast, former parent HMV Group remained under pressure due to stronger online competition and continuing to sell low-margin video games and computers. In 2012, HMV had 113 stores in Canada, down from 121 when it was sold by HMV Group. However, Hilco opened several new stores,

title: HMV Ireland

text: increased legal and illegal downloading and competition from online retailers in January 2013 HMV's parent company HMV Group plc went into administration in the United Kingdom, potentially affecting its operations within Ireland, Hong Kong and Singapore. In January 2013, its 16 stores in the Republic went into receivership and as a result its Irish subsidiary ceased trading with the loss of 300 jobs. On 15 January 2013 HMV Ireland refused to accept HMV vouchers within its stores following HMV UK's administration, although HMV Ireland was a separate entity to the UK operation. The refusal of vouchers proved controversial for staff

title: HMV

text: and the operation then became independent from HMV Group that bought by Hilco UK. This transaction also enables AID Partners Capital Limited to possess the rights to use the HMV brand in Hong Kong, Macau, China, Taiwan and Singapore. By 23 March 2013, Deloitte were seeking to complete a deal to sell 120 stores as a going concern. The decision to close several stores that had previously been identified for closure, including Stockport and Grimsby, were reversed following talks with landlords. By 21 March 2016, China 3D Digital Entertainment Limited acquired HMV Hong Kong operations from AID Partners Capital Limited,

title: HMV Canada

text: a customer rewards program that offered store discounts and exclusive items across music, film, and gaming in exchange for points gained in-store. Over 300,000 customers joined the program in its first four months. In June 2011, HMV sold its Canadian stores for £2 million to Hilco UK, a firm specialising in retail restructuring. On 3 November 2011, HMV announced its flagship store in Downtown Vancouver would close in January 2012, that a smaller location would open in a different area of Downtown Vancouver in the future, and the location in Richmond Centre would close. As of late 2012, Hilco was

title: HMV

text: On 1 September 2008, HMV launched "Get Closer", a social networking site allowing users to import their own music library, rivalling other providers including online music stores Napster and the iTunes Store. The site was closed in September 2009. HMV HMV Retail Ltd. is an entertainment retailing company (registered in England) operating in the United Kingdom. The first HMV-branded store was opened by the Gramophone Company on Oxford Street in 1921, and the HMV name was also used for television and radio sets manufactured from the 1930s onwards. The retail side of the business began to expand in the 1960s,

title: HMV

text: in Ireland had closed down and replaced with an online store. HMV Belfast re-opened up in March 2014 after over a £1 million pound refurbishment, making it the last remaining HMV store in Northern Ireland . HMV established a joint venture with Curzon Cinemas in October 2009 as part of chief executive Simon Fox's plan to bring cinemas to HMV and Waterstone's stores across England. The first trial cinema opened above the existing HMV store in Wimbledon, in a former storage room converted into three separate screens and a bar. It has its own entrance, allowing access outside store hours,

title: HMV Canada

text: HMV Canada HMV Canada Ltd. is a defunct Canadian entertainment retailer, owned by Hilco. The company was originally a subsidiary of HMV in the United Kingdom until it was sold to Hilco in 2011. HMV itself would later be bought by Hilco in 2013. HMV Canada's head office was located in Etobicoke. The retailer ceased operations in Spring 2017. HMV Canada was established in 1986 by the purchase of the Mister Sound chain by EMI Music Canada. Stores in the country did not have rights to the "His Master's Voice" trademark, as it was owned by Technicolor SA and licensed

title: HMV Ireland

text: 2015 HMV's Grafton Street Store will relocate to 72 Grafton Street. The new store is located in the former Karen Millen Store which was previously the Grafton Cinema until the 1970s. In early 2016, HMV Ireland confirmed the closure of its Galway City store and its store on Dublin's Grafton Street, both stores will close by end of January. This follows the closure of many Xtravision and HMV Xtravision branded stores at the end of December 2015/early January. In late January 2016 the remainder of Xtravision was liquidated. In July 2016, Hilco announced it would be closing its remaining five

title: HMV

text: forecasts due to falling sales, resulting in the share price falling by 20% and an announcement of the group's intention to close 40 HMV stores, as well as 20 Waterstone's stores, mainly in towns and cities where the company operates at multiple locations. The first of the store closures began at the end of January 2011. The sale of Waterstone's to A&NN Capital Fund Management for £53 million was completed on 29 June 2011, and was approved by the vast majority of shareholders at an emergency general meeting. HMV sold the Hammersmith Apollo to AEG Live and Eventim in May

title: HMV

text: to a cylinder phonograph, which was bought by the Gramophone Company in 1899. For advertising purposes this was changed to a wind-up gramophone, and eventually used simply as a silhouette. HMV owned the Waterstone's bookshop chain from 1998 until 2011, and has owned the music retailer Fopp since August 2007. It purchased a number of former Zavvi stores in February 2009, and also branched into live music venue management that year by purchasing MAMA Group. It sold the group in December 2012. On 15 January 2013, HMV Group plc entered administration. Deloitte were appointed to deal with the administration of

title: HMV Ireland

text: HMV Ireland HMV Ireland was an entertainment retailing company operated in Ireland by Hilco Capital Ireland The company was first established by HMV Group Plc as part of their international expansion into Ireland and Canada in 1986. The first store in Ireland established was at HMV on Grafton Street in Dublin (closed since February 2013, reopened in new location in 2014, a different location in 2015 and closed again in 2016). HMV established its first store in Ireland in 1986 following the retailer's expansion to Canada. The first store to open was on Grafton Street which became very popular for

title: HMV Ireland

text: on the Irish high street. These dual branded stores will begin rebranding from late September. HMV Ireland confirmed that it would launch services already available to customers in Canada to be made available in Ireland including HMV's localised website hmv.ie and its digital service 'The Vault'. The Dublin Henry Street store reopened on 5 September 2013 and the Liffey Valley shopping centre, Dundrum Town Centre and Limerick Crescent shopping centre stores re-opened on 12 September 2013. HMV opened a new branch on Grafton Street on 19 April 2014 and in Edward Square, Galway in Summer 2014. On Saturday 13 June

title: HMV

text: June 2013 it was confirmed that Hilco Capital Ireland had purchased HMV Ireland, and would reopen five stores within six weeks. The company moved its flagship Oxford Street store back to the original unit on 363 Oxford Street on 23 October 2013. HMV's existing store, itself the largest music store in the world, closed on 14 January 2014. By 2014, HMV had gained the second highest share of the UK entertainment market, behind Amazon. The company's filing to Companies House in September 2014 revealed it had made a profit of £17 million in the 11 months since it had entered

title: HMV

text: 31 May 2006. All 130 Ottakar's stores were rebranded as Waterstone's prior to Christmas 2006. In March 2007, new Group CEO Simon Fox announced a 10% reduction over three years in the enlarged Waterstone's total store space, comprising mostly dual location shops created by the acquisition of Ottakar's. On 29 June 2007, the entertainment retailer Fopp went into administration, with the closure of 81 stores and 800 staff made redundant. On 31 July HMV bought the brand and six stores that it said had traded profitably, saving around 70 jobs. On 24 December 2008, Christmas Eve, HMV's rival Zavvi, also

title: HMV

text: and was a constituent of the FTSE Fledgling Index, was liquidated in July 2014. HMV Canada is a former subsidiary which was sold to Hilco by the HMV Group in 2011. HMV Canada went into receivership in 2017 after being sued by Huk 10 Ltd., a shell company owned by Hilco. The antecedents of HMV began in the 1890s at the dawn of the disc gramophone. By 1902 it had become the beginnings of the Gramophone Company. In February 1907 they commenced the building of a new dedicated record factory at Hayes, Middlesex. Disc records were sold in music shops

title: HMV

text: 2012 for £32 million. It sold the remainder of MAMA Group to Lloyds Development Capital in December 2012 for £7.3 million, which also included the company's 50% stake in Mean Fiddler Group. On 15 January 2013, HMV Group appointed Deloitte as company administrators and suspended shares, putting its 4,350 UK employees at the risk of redundancy. Store gift vouchers were initially declared void since holders are classified as unsecured creditors to whom the company owe the value, but were accepted again from 22 January 2013. HMV Ireland followed by declaring receivership on 16 January 2013, which required the company under

title: HMV

text: owning 40% and management the remainder. The company floated on the London Stock Exchange later in the year as HMV Group plc, leaving EMI with only a token holding. The group became susceptible to a takeover following a poor period of trading up to Christmas 2005. Private equity firm Permira made a £762 million conditional bid for the group (based on 190p a share) on 7 February 2006, which was rejected by HMV as an insufficient valuation of the company. Permira made a second offer which increased the value, although HMV declined it on 13 March 2006, subsequently issuing a

title: HMV

text: HMV HMV Retail Ltd. is an entertainment retailing company (registered in England) operating in the United Kingdom. The first HMV-branded store was opened by the Gramophone Company on Oxford Street in 1921, and the HMV name was also used for television and radio sets manufactured from the 1930s onwards. The retail side of the business began to expand in the 1960s, and in 1998 was divested from EMI, the successor to the Gramophone Company, to form what would become HMV Group. HMV stands for "His Master's Voice", the title of a painting by Francis Barraud of the dog Nipper listening

title: HMV Canada

text: out. HMV Canada's application for use of the trademark was abandoned in 2010. Though the initials "HMV" came from the His Master's Voice trademark, HMV was not prevented from using its initials in Canada. In some radio and television commercials in the 1990s, HMV Canada used "HMV" as an acronym for "hot music values". The flagship store, which opened in 1991 at 333 Yonge Street in Toronto, was notable for hosting a number of in-store concerts and other promotions. Bands that performed in the store included Puff Daddy, D'Angelo, Green Day, Foxy Brown, Red Hot Chili Peppers (in an outdoor

title: HMV

text: Irish law to close all its stores immediately. Restructuring firm Hilco UK bought HMV's debt from its creditors The Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group, as a step towards potentially taking control of the company. It was revealed that the total debt Hilco had bought amounted to around £110 million, and that HMV owed around £20 million in tax to HM Revenue and Customs at the time of its entry into administration. On 31 January 2013, it was reported that 190 redundancies had been made at the head office and distribution centres. On 7 February 2013 Deloitte confirmed

title: HMV

text: size, and in six years became the country's leading specialist music retailers. It faced new competition, however, from Virgin Megastores, established in 1976, and Our Price, established in 1972. Subsequently, HMV overtook Our Price in popularity and threatened their existence, having established a chain of newer, larger stores. The company opened its flagship store at a new location on Oxford Street in 1986, announcing it was the largest record store in the world at the time, and the official opening was attended by Bob Geldof and Michael Hutchence. Growth continued for a third decade into the 1990s, with the company

title: HMV

text: and independent retailers at this time. In 1921 the Gramophone Company opened the first dedicated HMV shop in Oxford Street, London, in a former men's clothing shop; the composer Edward Elgar participated in the opening ceremonies. In March 1931 the Gramophone Company merged with Columbia Graphophone Company to form Electric and Musical Industries Ltd (EMI). From the 1930s onwards, HMV manufactured radio and television sets and radiograms under the HMV and Marconiphone brand names in their factory in Hayes, Middlesex. In 1966 HMV began expanding its retail operations in London. Throughout the 1970s, the company continued to expand, doubling in

title: HMV

text: merchandise. The company launched a music download service in October 2013 (www.hmvdigital.com), provided by 7digital, which includes iOS and Android apps. The company relaunched its online store in June 2015, providing CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and LP records for online order and home delivery via Royal Mail with exclusive stock also available. HMV operate a loyalty scheme branded as "pure HMV", first launched in August 2003, but subsequently closed and relaunched in 2008. The scheme awards cardholders points for purchases, which can be collected and redeemed on a number of rewards including vouchers to spend in-store, memorabilia and signed merchandise.

title: HMV Ireland

text: numerous big name Irish acts performing live in the store. The retailer expanded in Dublin with a second store on Henry Street and that followed with expansion into Cork in the late 1980s before adding a store in Limerick City in the 1990s. The retailer expanded with numerous stores in the Greater Dublin region and nationwide again into Galway and Newbridge in the early to mid 2000's. On 5 February 2011 HMV Ireland announced that its profits had fallen by almost 90% to €465,000, compared to €4.1 million the previous year. Following increased pressure from high rental rates in Ireland,

title: HMV

text: joint venture with the group called the Mean Fiddler Group. The deal introduced the HMV brand to live music venues, including the Hammersmith Apollo. On 23 December 2009, it bought the whole of the MAMA Group in a live music takeover deal worth £46 million. HMV bought 50% of 7digital for £7.7 million in September 2009, as part of a strategy to increase its digital content offering. 7digital provided HMV's music download service, and the company planned to introduce an e-books service for Waterstone's. On 5 January 2011 HMV announced that profits would be at the lower end of analysts'

title: HMV Canada

text: 30, 2017. HMV locations held clearout sales of their remaining inventory. The flagship store on Yonge Street in Toronto closed on Good Friday, April 14, 2017. Ontario-based chain Sunrise Records bought the leases of 70 of HMV's locations in an effort to expand nationally, and invited 1,340 former HMV employees to apply for 700 positions. HMV's flagship location on Yonge Street in Toronto was one of the several locations that were not part of the deal and remained vacant. HMV Canada HMV Canada Ltd. is a defunct Canadian entertainment retailer, owned by Hilco. The company was originally a subsidiary of

title: HMV Canada

text: such as the one in Peter Pond Mall in Fort McMurray. By 2014, HMV's profits were declining, with Hilco citing online media consumption as a factor. As of 2017, the company had $39 million in debt, and Hilco stated that financial difficulties, combined with decreasing sales, meant the current situation was not sustainable. On January 27, 2017, HUK 10 Ltd., the shell company owned by Hilco employee, business partner of Nick Williams, and owner of HMV UK, Paul McGowan, sued HMV in the Ontario Superior Court. They were successful, and Hilco announced plans to close all HMV locations by April

title: HMV Canada

text: concert that shut down the Yonge and Edward Street intersection), Ramones, Guns N' Roses, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC and Mariah Carey. The Yonge Street store was also notable for promoting local indie music scene by giving unsigned bands prominent shelf space on the ground floor as well as hosting in-store concerts and events with Toronto bands. In 2005, HMV Canada took over a Virgin Megastore in Vancouver, allowing it to own, "Canada’s largest store dedicated to music and DVD". In the two decades to 2006, HMV was awarded "Canadian Music Retailer of the Year". In June 2010, HMV Canada launched purehmv,

title: HMV

text: statement that the offer undervalued the medium and long term prospects for the company, resulting in Permira withdrawing from bidding. In 2006 the HMV Group purchased the Ottakar's book chain and merged it into Waterstone's. The merger tied into HMV's strategy for growth, as many of the Ottakar's branches were in smaller towns and outposts. The Competition Commission provisionally cleared HMV Group, through Waterstone's, for takeover of the Ottakar's group on 30 March 2006, stating that the takeover would "not result in a substantial lessening of competition". Waterstone's then announced that it had successfully negotiated a takeover of Ottakar's on

title: Fopp (retailer)

text: Fopp and Music Zone, and issued a press statement detailing stores closed and the numbers of jobs lost at each location. On 31 July 2007, it was announced that HMV would take control of the Fopp brand and its stores in Cambridge, Edinburgh Rose Street (but not Cockburn Street), Glasgow, London Covent Garden, Manchester and Nottingham. On 12 February 2008, Bristol Evening Post reported that a further store would open in Bristol (in a former HMV-owned Waterstone's store), a city in which three Fopp stores had traded prior to summer 2007. On 24 August 2007, the Glasgow Union Street and

title: Utility Stores Corporation

text: utility stores across the country to improve their performance and efficiency. So far the stores were using old methods of recording inventory. Utility Stores Corporation The Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan (USC or USCP) is a Pakistani State-owned enterprise that operates chain stores throughout the country that provide basic commodities to the general public at prices which are lower than the open market because the government subsidizes them. Utility Stores Corporation is governed by a Board of Directors and headed by a Managing Director. Public business organizations or the public can ask courts in Pakistan to hold hearings if they

title: Hook's Drug Stores

text: Hook's Drug Stores Hook's Drug Stores was an Indianapolis, Indiana-based drug store chain which was founded in 1900 by John A. Hook. The chain flourished throughout central Indiana for most of the 20th-century. Hook's did business under its own banner, the SupeRX Drug Stores banner outside its core market, and the Brooks Pharmacy banner after acquiring the New England pharmacy chain. The entire company was eventually purchased by fellow Midwestern drugstore chain Revco. Most former Hook's locations that are still open operate as CVS, which bought out Revco in the late 1990s and rebranded their stores as CVS. The Brooks

title: Utility Stores Corporation

text: Utility Stores Corporation The Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan (USC or USCP) is a Pakistani State-owned enterprise that operates chain stores throughout the country that provide basic commodities to the general public at prices which are lower than the open market because the government subsidizes them. Utility Stores Corporation is governed by a Board of Directors and headed by a Managing Director. Public business organizations or the public can ask courts in Pakistan to hold hearings if they have concerns about quality of items being sold at the stores. In April 2016, Government of Pakistan announced the computerization of the

title: Casey's General Stores

text: 2017 that it plans to open about 10 new locations in western Ohio. Casey's announced plans in August 2018 to build a store in Huber Heights, Ohio. As of April 30, 2018, Casey's has 2,073 stores in 16 states. Casey's operates in the following states, most of which are in the Midwestern United States and the Plains States: Casey's General Stores Casey's General Stores, Inc., is a chain of convenience stores in the Midwestern United States, primarily within the states of Iowa, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, South Dakota, North Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Wisconsin.

title: 99 Cents Only Stores

text: typically open from 9am-9pm, although individual stores may open at 8 a.m. or close at 10 p.m. The store mottos include: "Do the 99", "Low prices are born here, and raised elsewhere", featuring a picture of a baby chick. A 99 Cents Only store was featured in scenes in the 2002 movie Punch-Drunk Love. 99 Cents Only Stores 99 Cents Only Stores is an American price-point retailer chain based in Commerce, California. Previously, the store offered all products at 99¢ or less. Most products are now priced at "99.99¢ or less, but certain products are sold at higher price points."

title: Marciano Stores

text: Marciano Stores Marciano Stores is an American upscale fashion brand, which is owned and operated by Guess Inc named after Guess's co-founder and former CEO, Paul Marciano. It is the first extension line by Guess and includes clothing such as tops, skirts and dresses, jeans and accessories such as necklaces, earrings and bracelets sold exclusively in Marciano and selected Guess stores. Strictly a mall-based store (With the exception of the Robson Street location in Vancouver and Ste. Catherine St. location in Montreal), Marciano has stores open in The Grove in Los Angeles, Westfield Santa Anita in Arcadia, CA, The Forum

title: Genovese Drug Stores

text: years after the acquisition, the Genovese name ceased to exist when all the remaining stores were rebranded as Eckerd. The former Genovese stores that have remained open currently do business as Rite Aid, who bought Eckerd's eastern U.S. operations in 2007 (these locations are distinguishable as having blue signs instead of red signs). One Rite Aid store in Astoria is now a CVS/pharmacy. Genovese Drug Stores had no connection to the Genovese crime family, one of the "Five Families" of the city's Mafia. Genovese Drug Stores Genovese Drug Stores was a pharmacy chain located in the New York City-Long Island

title: Castlepoint Shopping Centre

text: of retail space. Since opening in 2003, several stores have ceased trading at the centre such as Principles, Virgin Megastores, Suits Direct, All Sports, Barratts, Choices Video and Lunn Poly (later Thomson). After the sale of Virgin Megastores in the United Kingdom, the stores were re-branded as Zavvi and after going into administration in 2009, had some of their sites sold to HMV, which operated the site at Castlepoint until 2013, following the closure of some HMV UK stores. Below are just a few of the many stores, As of August 2015 ; Argos, Asda, Accessorize, B&Q Warehouse, Cafe Nero,

title: British Home Stores

text: franchised since 1985 to stores around the world and, although they are not directly owned, products and support are supplied by BHS. The Tammy brand is available as a separate franchise. In early 2006 a new franchise, "Bhs Kids", was launched in the Middle East, carrying many best-selling children's lines from BHS stores. BHS was the first high street retailer in 1995 to open a branch in Moscow. The £3 million venture was the largest in the international portfolio and was quickly followed by the opening of a second store in St Petersburg. Further stores opened in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan

title: Society Stores Supermarkets

text: the Meru outlet in October 2015. The Naivaha store opened in December 2015, with Limuru to follow in early 2016. The sixth store is scheduled to open in the Nairobi suburb of Kayole, during the second half of 2016. The shares stock of Society Stores Supermarkets are privately owned, with the majority in the hands of the founder-owner-chairman-CEO, Trushar Khetia. Society Stores Supermarkets Society Stores Supermarkets is a supermarket chain in Kenya. The head office of Society Stores is located in the town of Thika, approximately , by road, northeast of Nairobi, the capital and largest city in Kenya. As

title: District Grocery Stores

text: the Jewish community. Many of these Jewish cultural centers remain today such as the Sixth & I Synagogue. The stores were open seven days a week and were often only closed half a day on Sundays. In spite of the overwhelming number of store owners being Jewish, the stores remained open on Saturdays as these stores were often located in non-Jewish neighborhoods. This made it difficult to observe the Sabbath and retain a traditional Jewish life. Some stores did close on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Many non-Kosher items were sold in the stores such as pork products as these

title: Lucky Stores

text: American Stores was bought out by Albertsons, which became briefly the largest grocery retailer in the United States, but became second after Kroger acquired Fred Meyer the following month. In the year that followed, all Lucky Stores took the Albertsons name, and the Lucky brand was phased out, in order to not create confusion. In Central California, many Lucky Stores were bought by Save Mart Supermarkets and now operate as Save Mart. In 2006, Berkeley, California-based Grocery Outlet closed its Rocklin, California, location, only to re-open the store with the Lucky name and the classic Lucky logo. On April 1,

title: HMV

text: that 66 stores had been identified for closure. No fixed date was given for the closures but they were expected to take place in the following two months. The next day, Deloitte confirmed that an additional 60 redundancies, including the chief executive Trevor Moore, had been made at the group's head offices in London, Marlow and Solihull. Deloitte confirmed on 20 February 2013 that an additional 37 stores would close. On 26 February 2013, 6 stores were sold to supermarket chain Morrisons. On 28 February 2013, 8 stores in Hong Kong and Singapore were sold to AID Partners Capital Limited

title: His Master's Voice

text: Technicolor SA and licensed to other companies. As of August 2006, there were over 400 HMV stores worldwide. The website is operated by HMV Guernsey. On 15 January 2013, HMV Group plc entered receivership; stores in Ireland closed 16 January 2013 and were no longer accepting vouchers. The HMV website posted a receivership notice and no further online sales were made. According to the HMV website, the organization was restructured by Hilco and, while some stores were closed, it has reopened debt-free and continues to trade. His Master's Voice His Master's Voice (HMV) is a famous trademark in the recording

title: Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores

text: is based in Portland, Oregon. Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores offer brand-name and private-label groceries, including meat, dairy and fresh produce, as well as tableware, paper products, janitorial supplies and catering supplies. They are open seven days a week. Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores operate as an independent division of Smart & Final, LLC. The Cash&Carry Smart Foodservice chain is the foodservice brand and division of Smart & Final, LLC. Smart & Final operates 282 stores under several brands. The Smart & Final chain includes 198 stores (185 in the U.S. and 13 in Mexico). The Henry's Farmers Markets and Sun Farmers

title: Fnac

text: market. The 1990s brought fierce competition after the arrival of HMV and Virgin Megastores in 1988 as well as the strength of hypermarkets. The company responded by cutting its prices and stepping up the competition, which forced HMV to leave France after only six months. Virgin Megastores remained in the French market, and decided to open two more stores in addition to its original store in Paris. In response to the megastore, as seen to the right, Fnac spent around $23 million to build its own megastore, at 32,000 square metres, more than twice the size of the Virgin megastore,

title: Giant Open Air

text: Giant Open Air Giant Open Air Market was a Norfolk, Virginia-based supermarket chain. Its trademark stores were open 24 hours a day, and the entrance was framed with an arch which rose to over 30 feet, anchored in concrete. The chain grew to include 26 full-line grocery stores and 43 "Tinee Giant" convenience stores. The stores were known for the vastness of the variety in the selections. The international line of groceries that they carried attracted national press at the time. Giant Open Air Markets would carry exotics like chocolate-covered ants from Japan, pickled eel, English teas, Greek and French

title: 99 Cents Only Stores

text: announced on September 18, 2008, that the company would close all stores in Texas, in February 2009, the company decided that it will close only one-third of its Texas stores. The company quoted a rise in sales, and plans to keep the stores open, as long as the stores remain profitable. In October 2011, the company agreed to a $1.6 billion buy-out by private equity firm Ares Management and the CPP Investment Board. 99 Cents Only Stores advertises that it is open "9 days a week", often invoking humorous commentary on holidays with products sold for 99 cents. One advertisement

title: Bebe Stores

text: in operations since June 2017. A new lifestyle concept store was opened in New York City in March 2018. The company has operated 312 stores, of which 215 are bebe stores, 32 are 2b Bebe stores, 64 are BebeSport stores (this includes bebe/bebeSport 2-in-1 stores), and one is a Bebe accessories store. These are located in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada. Bebe also has international divisions in Lebanon, Kuwait, Egypt, Israel, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, and UAE. The first store was opened in San Francisco

title: Interstate Department Stores

text: was opened in Niles, Illinois, in a shopping complex that included a supermarket and a drug store in which no walls separated the three businesses. Another Topps was quickly open in Fairfield, Connecticut. By 1960, the chain had 10 stores in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. Some of the stores were known as "Topps Discount City" and others as "Topps Discount Center". In 1960, Interstate purchased the 10-unit Connecticut-based Topps Department Store chain for an undisclosed amount. The rapid growth in the Topps division also cause declines in the department store division and force the conventional department stores

title: Minyard Food Stores

text: shoppers. The concept proved to be successful and Minyard announced plans to open four additional Carnival Food Stores by late 1991. A total of 21 Carnival stores were operating by the end of the decade. The 1990s were a period of increased competition in the Dallas-Fort Worth area grocery market. In addition to longtime competitors such as Kroger and Tom Thumb, new chains were also entering the market. The most notable entrant was North Carolina-based Food Lion, which planned on opening 50 stores in the area. Minyard focused on improving customer service to deal with the growing competition. Store expansion

title: Times Square Stores

text: In the early 1980s the chain attempted to stake a claim in Northern New Jersey when it leased 2 vacant, former Two Guys locations. The plan was to gauge reaction to these two large stores (150,000 sq/ft each), and then plan further expansion into New Jersey. Neither location lived up to expectations, and the two stores were first downsized to one level each and then shuttered. On December 4, 1989, the chain, which had about 2,875 employees by then, filed for bankruptcy and announced it would close its doors on December 31, 1989. Three stores remained open for liquidation until

title: Jo-Ann Stores

text: Jo-Ann Stores Jo-Ann Stores, Inc. is an American specialty retailer of crafts and fabrics based in Hudson, Ohio. It operates the retail chains "Jo-Ann Fabrics" and "Jo-Ann Etc". The headquarters of the company is located in the former General Motors Terex plant. In 1943, German immigrants Hilda and Berthold Reich and their friends Sigmund and Mathilda Rohrbach opened an imported cheese store in Cleveland. Fabric was added, which sold so well that they decided to open a second store. With no money for additional inventory, they divided full bolts into two to supply both stores. Eventually, they discontinued cheese sales

title: Open (Shaznay Lewis album)

text: The album (without any promotion) seems to have been re-released, as "Don't Know What to Say" is now an added track on the album. This change can be seen on the HMV website. When the album was first released, this song was not included. The final track "Now You're Gone" was originally called "Crying" but was changed before the album was confirmed. The song has been released on the "Shaznay Lewis Album Sampler" which features 5 songs taken from "Open"; however, "Mr. Dawg" and "You" are both rough demos different from the album versions (both vocally and melodically). Credits adapted

title: Davega Stores

text: The product tested players team-managing ability and playing style. The corporation opened a new store at 152 West 42nd Street, in the Times Square area, on November 6, 1954. On opening day the store offered bargains like a $20 table radio for .98 and reconditioned television receivers for $7.95. It remained open all night the first day of business and until twelve midnight the following day. A federal court ordered Davega Stores into straight bankruptcy in April 1963, when its court-appointed trustee could not formulate a reorganization plan under which the chain could pay its debts. Eight of its stores

title: Giant Open Air

text: buyout agreement with Citicorp Venture Capital Ltd., completed in September 1989. The Tinee Giant convenience store chain still has several locations in Hampton Roads. In 1999, the wholesaler Supervalu purchased the company. Giant Open Air Giant Open Air Market was a Norfolk, Virginia-based supermarket chain. Its trademark stores were open 24 hours a day, and the entrance was framed with an arch which rose to over 30 feet, anchored in concrete. The chain grew to include 26 full-line grocery stores and 43 "Tinee Giant" convenience stores. The stores were known for the vastness of the variety in the selections. The

title: Barker's Discount Department Stores

text: a multimillion-dollar regional empire. Under Franklin, Barker's began a period of 19 years in business. Between 1961 and 1970, Barker's would open over 11 more stores. From 1970 to 1975, Barker's would become one of the nations fastest growing retail chains in the United States, opening almost 20 stores alone in New York State. In 1976, Barkers would open up several former W.T. Grant store locations in central New York. Irving Barker remained with Franklin Stores until 1963. After years of prosperity, Barkers was on its downfall, along with several other major retailers. King's Department Stores Inc. (later renamed KDT

title: Associated Food Stores

text: to open some of their stores on Sundays. In 2009, Associated Food Stores purchased 34 Albertsons stores in Utah from Supervalu Inc. The stores were renamed Associated Fresh Market (more commonly known as just "Fresh Market"). As of June 2017, however, only 17 of the originally purchased locations were still under the Fresh Market banner, the rest having been either closed or sold. In 2017, two Fresh Market locations in Murray and Holladay were re-branded as Macey's. As well as supplying independent grocers, Associated Food Stores also owns several corporate stores under five different names, operating a total of 42

title: 99p Stores

text: 99p, such as branded cakes for 69p and bottles of soft drinks for 89p. The best seller is the Galaxy chocolate bar. The business sources a third of its products from the Far East, allowing for gross margins of up to 50%. In April 2006, the retailer secured an £8 million cash injection from its venture capital backers Barclays Ventures and Lloyds TSB to open up to 45 new stores by early 2008. More than two years later, in September 2008, its 59th store was opened in Bracknell, Berkshire and by the end of 2008 there were 65 stores open,

title: ABC Stores (Hawaii)

text: on The Big Island and three on Kauai. There are eight stores in Las Vegas, currently the franchise's only mainland location. There are also ten stores in the Mariana Islands, eight in Guam (in Tumon) and two in Saipan (in Garapan). ABC Stores (Hawaii) ABC Stores is a chain of convenience stores based in Honolulu owned by MNS Ltd. The chain operates 73 stores, 57 of which are located in the state of Hawaii, with the remaining locations in the Mariana Islands and Las Vegas. The company now generates more than $230 million in annual profits and employs over 1500

title: Naval stores

text: Naval stores Naval stores are all products derived from pine sap, which are used to manufacture soap, paint, varnish, shoe polish, lubricants, linoleum, and roofing materials. The term "naval stores" originally applied to the resin-based components used in building and maintaining wooden sailing ships, a category which includes cordage, mask, turpentine, rosin, pitch and tar. Ships made of wood required a flexible material, insoluble in water, to seal the spaces between planks. Pine pitch was often mixed with fibers like hemp to caulk spaces which might otherwise leak. Crude gum or oleoresin can be collected from the wounds of living

title: Maveli Stores

text: Maveli Stores Maveli Stores is a venture of the Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation (Supplyco). Under the Government programme of market intervention, pulses and spices are purchased and sold to the consumers at subsidised prices fixed by the Government. The Government of Kerala aids this operation by giving grants every year. The task has been fulfilled through the network of Maveli Stores, which was started to commemorate the saga of Mahabali, legendary king of Kerala. Now the Maveli Stores has become a prominent name among the consumers in the state. Supplyco operates through Maveli Stores and Mobile Maveli Stores throughout

title: 99p Stores

text: for stores which lie empty. Stuart Donnelly, head of property at 99p Stores, notes that landlords are now being much more proactive, inviting potential retailers to come and have a look at their locations with the hope of them taking up a lease, as the property market has been badly affected by the recession, allowing the company to drive competitive deals to further expand their portfolio of stores with less expenditure, something that wouldn't have been possible just a few years ago. Landlords are now regarding 99p Stores as an anchor tenant due to the significant number of customers one

title: Zavvi (retailer)

text: expressions of interest in parts or all of the company. A news article in "The Irish Times" reported that HMV was interested in acquiring at least five of Zavvi's Irish stores. On the same day, "The Independent" newspaper speculated that French entertainment retailer Fnac could be tempted into the UK market by bidding for the 125 stores of the chain. On 14 January 2009, HMV revealed that it had acquired 14 Zavvi stores where HMV was not currently trading, with five of those in Ireland, including the largest of the Zavvi stores in the Dundrum Town Centre, and nine in

title: Dunnes Stores

text: a new store format, adapting the American-style convenience store concept for the Dublin market. By 2001, the company had opened a second store featuring the smaller format and had registered a new subsidiary name, Better Value Conveniently Yours Ltd., in what some observers saw as the company's intent on expanding its convenience store operations. In the meantime, Dunnes continued to open new stores, bringing its total to 125 stores. After entering Scotland for the first time in 2000, the company announced its intention to boost the number of British Dunnes stores by up to 25 by 2005. The company was

title: Bloodstock Open Air

text: the last year which had both the indoor & outdoor festivals running together. BOA 2006 took place from Friday 14 July to Saturday 15 July and the line up was as follows:- Bloodstock Open Air 2007 brought further growth for the festival which now ran over three days and included three stages. The additional stage was named the Lava Stage and allowed more established but smaller acts to perform at the festival. Following a stronger marketing campaign which included advertisement within HMV and greater coverage in music media, attendance at the festival more than doubled from the previous year exceeding

title: Maveli Stores

text: washing soaps and detergents. Maveli Stores Maveli Stores is a venture of the Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation (Supplyco). Under the Government programme of market intervention, pulses and spices are purchased and sold to the consumers at subsidised prices fixed by the Government. The Government of Kerala aids this operation by giving grants every year. The task has been fulfilled through the network of Maveli Stores, which was started to commemorate the saga of Mahabali, legendary king of Kerala. Now the Maveli Stores has become a prominent name among the consumers in the state. Supplyco operates through Maveli Stores and

title: Casey's General Stores

text: a store from scratch in the even smaller town of Waukee, Iowa (population 1,500 at the time). The Waukee store proved to be the most successful of the three, so Lamberti decided to purchase and open more stores, concentrating on towns of less than 5,000 population (a variation on the tactic used in the early success of Wal-Mart). By the late 1970s (when Casey's opened its first warehouse) the chain had 118 stores, including the original store operated by Lamberti's parents which entered the Casey's fold in 1977. In 1982, Casey's opened its first Distribution Center in Urbandale, Iowa. Casey's

title: Edison Brothers Stores

text: and the brothers opened up a second shoe store, called Baker's, the next year. By 1928, the brothers operated 12 Chandler's stores; the next year, the company went public, using the money raised to open 14 more Baker's stores and three more Chandler's stores, and moved its headquarters to St. Louis. The company survived the Great Depression by emphasizing its lower-priced Baker's shoes and starting a new store called Burt's that sold shoes at an even lower price point. Stores the company opened on the West Coast took the name Leed's to avoid confusion with an existing chain also named

title: Naval stores

text: world's resin. Naval stores are recovered from the tall oil byproduct stream of Kraft process pulping of pines in the United States. Tapping of living pines remains common in other parts of the world. Turpentine and pine oil may be recovered by steam distillation of oleoresin or by destructive distillation of pine wood; solvent extraction of shredded stumps and roots has become more common with the availability of inexpensive naphtha. Rosin remains in the still after turpentine and water have boiled off. Naval stores Naval stores are all products derived from pine sap, which are used to manufacture soap, paint,

title: The Doors Are Open

text: the second Saturday concert. The documentary aired on 4 October, 1968. The final documentary was entitled "The Doors Are Open" but according to Greg Shaw in his book "On The Road", it was originally to be called "When The Mode Of The Music Changes, The Walls Of The City Will Shake". Originally aired on Granada TV in October 1968, the documentary was finally released by PolyGram on VHS cassette in 1991. A DVD was released in 1998 and Blu-ray versions followed in 2011. The Doors Are Open The Doors Are Open is a 1968 black-and-white documentary about the American rock

title: GS Curtis Stores

text: allow opening. At each end of the warehouse was a corner splay which formed an entrance with the inscription "G.S. Curtis, 1870" in ribbon lettering. The words "G.S Curtis Consignment Stores" were also in relief at either end of the building. The second floor was accessible by two staircases which were boxed and separated from the ground floor, each fronting Bolsover Street and East Lane. The ground floor had an open plan with eight iron pillars supporting a timber first floor. The upper storey also had an open plan with the only opening for loading being a pair of sliding

title: Stoke-on-Trent

text: the improved canal network. The main shopping centre is the Potteries Shopping Centre in Hanley, which has of retail space with 87 units including a Debenhams anchor store, (formerly Lewis's) and major stores for Next, New Look, Monsoon, Gap, HMV, River Island, H. Samuel, La Senza, Superdrug, Topshop, Topman and Burton. Marks & Spencer, BHS and T.K. Maxx also have stores in Hanley. A new shopping centre on the site of Hanley's former bus station was due to open in 2016, but development has been delayed and the project is now in doubt. The other five towns of the city

title: Open Mobile

text: Communications Commission, along with other regulatory authorities, which is expected to take several months. The merger was approved in September 2017, with Sprint becoming the majority shareholder. In the summer of 2018 all of the Open Mobile stores were changed to Boost Mobile Stores. Open Mobile Open Mobile is a mobile network operator that offers mobile phone services exclusively in Puerto Rico. The company was established on June 12, 2007, as a relaunch of NewComm Wireless Services (formerly d/b/a Movistar). Its new owners, M/C Partners and Columbia Capital, acquired Movistar's assets for $160 million USD after Movistar filed for Chapter

title: Dunnes Stores

text: Union, which represents just over half of Dunnes Stores’ 10,000 workers, will be holding demonstrations that cover the all trading hours, as well as being present at some delivery entrances. Dunnes has 112 branches across the Republic of Ireland – 5,100 of their 10,000-plus employees are represented by Mandate. A further 300 workers are members of Siptu. Dunnes Stores Dunnes Stores is an Irish multinational retail chain that primarily sells food, clothes and household wares. In addition to its main customer base in Ireland, the chain also has operations in Spain, and formerly in England and Scotland. The format of

title: Campbell's Stores

text: are a surviving element of an evolving complex of wharves and stores that began with the construction by Robert Campbell (Sen), the founder of the dynasty, of the first privately owned wharf in Australia, in 1801. Although Campbell's Stores were not built for Robert Campbell (Sen), they was erected for the firm he created which was then managed by his sons. The first five bays of Campbell's Stores demonstrate the consolidation of this pioneer commercial dynasty rather than the pioneering phase of that family's growth. Campbell's Stores were associated with one of the most important commercial shipping and transport companies

title: ATG Stores

text: ATG Stores The Mine is an American e-commerce company which sells home goods. Formerly known as ATG Stores, the company was founded in 1999 and now sells a variety of home items including furniture, lighting and home decor. The company's headquarters are currently in Kirkland, Washington and is owned by Lowe's Home Improvement. ATG Stores was founded in 1999 with the launch of its first website, Lighting Universe, with the goal to consolidate lighting catalogs and pricing online for designers, homeowners and contractors. In 2000 LightingUniverse.com went live, and two years later ATG Stores launched FixtureUniverse.com, targeting plumbing fixtures and

title: Dubbo RAAF Stores Depot

text: innovative, prefabricated and other stores buildings, constructed during World War II, provides an intact example of a 1940s military cultural landscape. It also has research significance for its Aboriginal relics, especially in relation to the recommended archaeological excavation of the "open artifact scatter" on the western side. The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. The five Igloos at Dubbo, alongside a similar building at the Macrossan Stores Depot in Queensland, are the only surviving examples of this building type in Australia. The Rabaul Store is the only known example

title: Sujoy Roy

text: Championship Gaming Series. In December 2007 Sujoy launched Gamerbase, a gaming centre located within the HMV store at the London Trocadero in Piccadilly Circus. Gamerbase was acquired by the high street entertainment chain, HMV, in October 2008 and Sujoy subsequently joined HMV in a managerial capacity to oversee the technical aspects of Gamerbase. Gamerbase won the Retail Innovation award in 2009 from MCV, the leading UK video games trade magazine. Sujoy has opened three further Gamerbase stores in the UK inside HMV stores in Manchester, Glasgow and Reading. In May 2018 Roy joined esports betting platform Luckbox as Director of

title: Sanity (music store)

text: HMV. The HMV Group's agreement with Brazin was to phase out the HMV brand in Australia by 2010. Immediately after this acquisition of HMV's 32 outlets, this put Brazin at its peak with its 74 Virgin stores in addition to Sanity's 215 and EzyDVD's 63 outlets around the country (not counting non-entertainment retail chains within Brazin such as, Bras 'N' Things) and was by far Australia's largest entertainment retailer with close to 43% of the music retail market. However, most HMV stores in Australia had very high overhead costs due to their large footprints and expensive locations, thus most were

title: Campbell's Stores

text: and not the subject stores which were constructed in the early 1850s. Between 25 August 1851 and 27 September 1852, the Sydney City Council Rate Assessment Book shows that on Campbell's Wharf, J Campbell had added five stores which were built of stone, with slate roofs, all provisionally assessed at a net value per annum of . These are the first five bays of Campbell's Stores. The 1858 Rate Assessment Book shows that the three-storey stone warehouses on the water's edge from the 1820s were still extant. Amongst the array of other wharf buildings were five warehouses of stone with

title: Zavvi (retailer)

text: that it will leave 10% of the video games market open, adding "A number of players will benefit including Argos, HMV and the supermarkets". In the years following Zavvi's closure many of its major competitors on the British high street also ran into financial difficulty with companies such as HMV and Game entering administration themselves. On 8 October 2007, Zavvi Chief Executive Officer, Simon Douglas unveiled his "clear and simple" logo for the Zavvi stores and website. The distinctive portion of the logo was the "Z" in the dot of the i. Zavvi also appointed creative marketing agency Live &

title: Argyle Stores

text: their major phases of development and use as commercial stores, including the hydraulic hoist. The stores are rare in their ability to demonstrate changing warehouse design and construction from the early 19th to early 20th century. The buildings also demonstrate, through design, space and materials, wholesale and retail practices which are changing or have changed. The buildings and site are physical reminders of the early history of Sydney, occupying a section of the city which was the focus of commercial maritime activity in the first half of the 19th century. They also provide the focus of present activity in the

title: BC Liquor Stores

text: government left it up to the individual provinces to regulate the distribution network. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the province of Ontario's equivalent, has announced plans to open up 150 additional marijuana-only LCBO stores, 40 of those opening on July 1, 2018. The previous BC Liberal government had opposed the idea of selling marijuana in liquor stores. A change in government resulted following the 2017 provincial elections, and the Premier of the New Democratic government, John Horgan, has stated he is strongly in favour of using both liquor stores and pharmacies to dispense cannabis. A public consultation process for

title: Cahill's Stores, Rockhampton

text: building was returned to a single owner. In the interval it had been occupied by, amongst others, Kerrisk Bros. and Central Livestock and Produce Co-operative Society. In 1985 the owners of the Cahill's Stores building also held title to the Heritage Tavern, formerly the Commercial Hotel and Chambers. With side access opening directly into the hotel and its party wall removed, the former stores building was converted into a nightclub. The open, singular space inside the building has served this purpose since then. The former Cahill Stores, a single-storey brick building, is located on a block of Quay Street that

title: Safeway Stores (Ireland)

text: brand products in favour of the Morrisons label. It was becoming apparent, however, that Morrisons did not see a long-term future in Northern Ireland. Despite this, Morrisons continued with plans to open a supermarket in Bangor, Co Down, the last new Safeway store to open in the UK, and the only one opened after the Morrisons takeover. Along with a number of other former Safeway UK interests, Morrisons disposed of its interests in Northern Ireland in 2005. On 6 June 2005, 12 of the 13 outlets were acquired by Asda for £73.6 million. The stores, (which included their Bangor store),