All Entertainment articles – Page 74
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NewsTesco mulls exclusive computer games
Tesco will consider creating exclusive computer games with partners as part of its burgeoning entertainment division.
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NewsHMV launches Christmas campaign
Entertainment retailer HMV is launching its Christmas marketing campaign today, featuring icons of the worlds of music, film and games. The campaign will stretch across press, TV, online and in stores, and feature the ‘Get Merry’ tagline.
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News
Lawson to acquire HMV Japan for £14m
Convenience store retailer Lawson is to acquire music and video retailer HMV Japan on December 1 for ¥1.8bn (£14m). All of HMV Japan’s shares will be purchased from Daiwa Securities SMBC Principal Investments Co. HMV Japan runs 37 stores in Japan. Lawson hopes that the acquisition will help boost its ...
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NewsTraffic-free shopping on Oxford Street on November 27
London’s famous shopping Mecca Oxford Street will offer traffic-free shopping again this year, on November 27.
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NewsGrainger Games plans rapid store expansion
Grainger Games will have doubled store numbers year on year by Christmas as it bucks the downbeat trend in the games market with a focus on value.
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NewsTesco to release Coronation Street album
Tesco is to release an exclusive album to celebrate the 50th anniversary of favourite soap opera Coronation Street.
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NewsLovefilm turnover grows as losses narrow
Amazon-backed online film rental company Lovefilm pretax losses narrowed from £7.4m to £934,000 last year.
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Opinion
Game drives footfall through Xbox location-based app
Game is driving footfall through a mobile phone app, based on a Xbox game, that involves checking in at locations close to stores to win points that customers can redeem when they buy the game.
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AnalysisThe art of being chosen
What makes some retailers successful while others fail? Respected retail marketer Martin Butler’s new book asked retail’s biggest names to find out
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NewsWHSmith and Dixons join forces for ebook download app deal
Bookseller WHSmith has struck a deal with Dixons to embed an ebook download app on e-readers and tablet devices sold by the electricals group.
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NewsAsda sells exclusive Chris de Burgh album
Asda has signed a deal to be the exclusive retailer of Chris de Burgh’s new album ‘Moonfleet & Other Stories’.
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NewsSales growth slows in September
UK retail like-for-likes grew just 0.5% in September, marking the sixth month of low growth according to the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor.
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NewsRetail administrations slow
The rate of businesses going into administration has slowed to levels not seen since before the economic downturn, with the retail sector showing the “most pronounced drop”.
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NewsAsda rolls out pre-owned games offer
Asda is launching a computer games exchange in 235 stores after successfully trialling the scheme in five branches.
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OpinionRetailers show their true colours
Full marks to Waterstones for the advert it ran in a national newspaper on Saturday. The bookseller may have had its fair share of troubles, but its marketing department knows a good thing when it sees one and in this instance, this appears to have been Waitrose.
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NewsComet to trial Game concessions in move to give stores young feel
Comet is to trial Game concessions in its stores as part of its attempts to give its stores a younger, more modern feel.
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NewsBlockbuster UK profits up despite bankrupt parent
Blockbuster UK has reported its pre-tax profits lifted from £3m to £4.6m in the year to January 3, but the retailer still awaits the fate of its US parent Blockbuster Inc.
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AnalysisWhat it’s like to work at Richer Sounds
The inside view from operations director John Clayton
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AnalysisHMV: The music of chance
HMV’s latest initiative lifts morale and underlines its specialist credentials, says Natasha Devan