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Fopp to outline store plans.
Fopp will this week meet with a number of major record companies to outline its plans, following the dramatic acquisition of 67 former Music Zone stores.
The retailer has re-opened all 67 stores, which closed in January after administrator Deloitte & Touche announced it had initially failed to find a buyer for the defunct chain, with all but one still trading under the Music Zone brand.
While negotiations between Deloitte and suppliers over the ownership of existing Music Zone stock are believed to be nearing a conclusion, Fopp still faces a number of challenges in coming to terms with its vastly- expanded store portfolio; the purchase took the number of Fopp stores from 46 to 113, the majority of which are outside its traditional power base in Scotland.
"Everyone is working on stock issues and staff issues," a Fopp spokesman says. "Sorting that will take a long, long time. It will be weeks before we get on to other things. It is a period of assessment over the next few weeks."
He adds that a number of former ...
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