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Bard plans second indie retail event.(News)

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Bard is attempting to build on last year's inaugural Independent Retail Conference, boosting its scale and scope for the second event which has been scheduled for September 20.

The entertainment retailers' association is urging on independent distributors and record labels to get involved in the 2006 event, which takes place at the Holiday Inn in Birmingham.

Last September's inaugural conference attracted more than 150 independent music retailers to the Britannia Hotel in Birmingham, where they heard presentations from the four major labels, as well as distributors Pinnacle and Vital.

Bard deputy chairman Paul Quirk says that this year's conference will benefit from a longer planning period. "Last year we had a matter of weeks to get the conference together," he says. "This year we have looked at 10 different venues and we decided that the Holiday Inn is the best venue for what we want to do.

"We have doubled the capacity on the stalls and it is a better layout --everyone will have to go past the stands to go to the auditorium."

Bard secretary general Kim Bayley adds, ...

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