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Music Zone ramps up new store launches.(News)
Music Zone is rejecting industry doomsayers who think downloads will damage High Street retailing by unveiling one of the most ambitious roll-outs of new stores by a UK independent retailer.
With 17 new stores opened in 2003 and new store openings in Glasgow and Dumfries this spring, Music Zone founder Russ Grainger is now setting his sights on five new stores in the north of England --in Harregate, Durham, Accrington, Barosley and Oldham --by the end of the year, taking the network to 58.
He is then expecting to take that figure to more than 70 shops by adding an additional 15 shops next year, with a war chest of around 10m [pounds sterling] to help fund the operation and a refurbishment programme.
"On that growth rate we can realistically achieve 100 stores by the end of 2006," says Grainger. He now says the chain, which operated just five stores as recently as 1998, is the fastest-growing music and DVD retailer in the UK and rubbishes suggestions that the internet is about to spell the end of music ...
- Author bit by the music bug: Diamant finds passion in lyrics.(NEWS)
- Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA) Erekson, Kristin April 13, 2007 700+ words
Acclaimed local author Anita Diamant is now jazzing up her literary repertoire. Diamant, the bestselling author of "The Red Tent" and president of Newton's Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center, is breaking up her usual routine of creating Jewish and fictional-themed
- Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis Tries To Give Children the Music Bug
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times LLOYD SACHS October 8, 1995 700+ words
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis bids to become America's most popular and influential music educator since Leonard Bernstein when his weekly, four-part PBS series, "Marsalis on Music," debuts at 8 p.m. Monday on WTTW-Channel 11. Taped before youngsters at the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts, the
- Best Buy and United Way to Expand Reach of the ``Music Zone'' After-School...
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 7, 2001 700+ words
...America are expanding the reach of their "Music Zone" program, a joint effort that brings...mark the second phase of Best Buy's "Music Zone" initiative, which was piloted in five...create and manage their own unique "Music Zone." National studies have shown that...
- Graphix Zone Partners with Leading Internet Companies Lycos and BigBook as...
- Press release article from: Business Wire June 25, 1996 700+ words
...directory BigBook as it completes Phase I of Music Zone, Graphix Zone's Internet music megasite...reviews from the Lycos properties into Music Zone web sites so users can find complementary...and directly without having to leave Music Zone. In its relationship with Big Book...
- Music Zone turns up London volume with MVC buyup.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) December 21, 2005 700+ words
MUSIC Zone, the DVD retailer backed by Lloyds Development Capital, is...Woolworths in August, after the collapse of earlier talks between Music Zone and Woolworths. Music Zone is the result of a [pounds sterling]12 million management...
- Graphix Zone rocks the Internet with Music Zone; leading interactive music...
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 7, 1996 700+ words
...on-line strategy move by announcing Music Zone, the premier comprehensive music industry...rock bands to legendary performers. Music Zone visitors can discover new music and engage...this expansion and an integral part of Music Zone and our music Internet strategy." Averaging...
- TCI wants its ... TMZ; MSO is backing new music video network, The Music...
- Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable Brown, Rich July 24, 1995 700+ words
...backing new music video network, The Music Zone It looks as though longtime sparring...industry veteran Connie Wodlinger on The Music Zone, a West Palm Beach, Fla.-based joint...U.S. call for the creation of a "music zone" of six multiplexed networks, each...
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Stanley Miller Ii column: Sonos lets you play in...
- Newspaper article from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) October 3, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Stanley Miller Ii Oct. 3--One of the best ways to beam digital music around the house recently got even better. Sonos, which makes a popular wireless music system, released a software upgrade last month that can take the computer out of the digital music experience, allowing users to
