AID Partners Capital, a Hong Kong-based buyout firm focusing on the entertainment and media industry, has bought HMV's businesses in Hong Kong and Singapore as well as operating licences for...
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HMV is a 92-year-old music retailer which in January 2013 sought protection from creditors, after seeing its core businesses selling compact discs and digital video disks eroded by online competitors like Apple’s iTunes and Amazon.com. Known worldwide for its ‘Nipper the dog’ trademark, its first store on London's Oxford Street was opened by English composer Edward Elgar in 1921.
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Like a vulture, I swooped through the doors of the HMV shop, ready to devour any clearance specials that might be on offer. Alas, my presumption that the British entertainment retailer's filing...
Recently Money Post wrote about the terrible value of gift vouchers ("Bottom of the deck", December 31). We were surprised, however, to see our views so quickly validated by news that music...
There was a time when video and music shops were venerable cultural institutions, places to get an entertainment fix, catch up with like-minded souls or just to browse the shelves for some down...
Uncertainty over HMV's fate in Hong Kong has dealt yet another blow to the already troubled local music industry.
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The fate of HMV's six Hong Kong shops hangs in the balance after the British music and DVD retailer said yesterday it was seeking help to save it from collapse.
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