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Music retailing has lost one of its great entrepreneurs with the death of Our Price and MVC founder Garry Nesbitt from leukaemia.
Sixty-year-old Nesbitt, who leaves a wife and four children following his death last Tuesday night, is hailed by industry sources as a true pioneer of retailing.
Woolworths Entertainment commercial director and MVC managing director Richard Izard says Nesbitt "created a new model" of music retailing. He says, "He was quite inspirational, he always had new ideas and it is his creativity that I remember."
Former WEA managing director John Fruin, who knew Nesbitt from the days of the first shop, also believes the retailer …