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Music Week

| June 07, 2003 | Ashton, Robert | COPYRIGHT 2003 CMP Information Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 …

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