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Fri Jun 30 2023 - 06:52

HMV drops the needle on new Henry Street store

Music and merchandise retailer makes its much-anticipated Irish return after closing in 2016

Fri Jun 30 2023 - 06:00

Cannes rolls out traditional red carpet as Côte d’Azur shimmers into festival season

Planet Business: Brexit car industry warning, Linda ‘the Velvet Hammer’ Yaccarino and a brief history of HMV

Sat May 20 2023 - 06:15

Hilco took £25m in dividends from Homebase despite £10.6m in UK Covid aid

Many other large UK retailers have handed back government supports

Thu Jan 13 2022 - 12:00

Olympic countdown, Euro 2020 TV ratings and 100 years of HMV

Planet Business: What’s next for Sheryl Sandberg?

Sat Jul 17 2021 - 05:27

Lights, camera, action: cinemas reopen after five months

Light House programme manager Charlene Lydon is confident the crowds will return

Mon Jun 07 2021 - 05:00

High-street stroll reveals ravaged retail landscape

London Letter: Boarded-up shops testify to commercial and social damage of Covid-19

Thu Apr 22 2021 - 20:00

Irish Recording Company: Few know of these top-quality 1940s gems

An Irishman’s Diary: Story of the first trad record label under Bill Stapleton

Mon Mar 22 2021 - 00:00

King of the Pipers – An Irishman’s Diary on Leo Rowsome

Fri Sept 11 2020 - 20:01

Jewellery maker Links of London enters administration, 350 jobs at risk

Company’s products sold through numerous Irish outlets

Thu Oct 10 2019 - 10:07

Pop culture in Ireland was always divided between North and South

Shaping cultural identity formed part of the reason Raidió Teilifís Éireann was established

Sat Jun 15 2019 - 05:00

Dunnes Stores fails to overturn award in legal dispute at Galway shopping centre

Heffernan instructed staff to close the doors at store minutes after receiving legal proceedings from centre’s operator

Fri May 10 2019 - 14:00

Is traditional retail on the verge of extinction?

In the UK insolvencies have jumped by more than a fifth since 2016

Tue Mar 19 2019 - 10:54

Mike Ashley in coup attempt to seize control of Debenhams

Sports Direct boss announces plan to oust all but one director at ailing department store

Thu Mar 07 2019 - 20:29

Canada’s Sunrise Records paid £883,000 to acquire HMV in UK

Ontario-based Sunrise acquired business to increase its exposure to music on vinyl

Mon Feb 25 2019 - 20:22

Google's big bets, backstop circles and the vinyl fan buying HMV

Planet Business: Get to know vinyl lover Doug Putman and review the week in numbers

Fri Feb 08 2019 - 05:38

How HMV’s new owner wants to change the way we buy music

Doug Putman rescued HMV in Canada, but will his approach work this side of the pond?

Wed Feb 06 2019 - 13:15

UK music retailer HMV sold to Canada’s Sunrise Records

Troubled retailer collapsed after Christmas, but deal will save almost 1,500 jobs

Tue Feb 05 2019 - 08:12

Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley in HMV takeover talks

About 2,200 jobs were put at risk when HMV went into administration before Christmas

Mon Jan 21 2019 - 13:21

London Briefing: Christmas 2018 one of the toughest for retailers in years

Consumer confidence crumbles and Piers Morgan puts a vegan sausage on the menu

Wed Jan 09 2019 - 05:31

Irish and European shares rally at end of volatile week

Applegreen, Ryanair and Bank of Ireland shares in demand as Iseq finishes up 2.5%

Fri Dec 28 2018 - 17:48

HMV enters administration for second time in six years

Disappointing sales add to seasonal woes for troubled retailer

Fri Dec 28 2018 - 11:53

European shares recover as US, oil stocks see bounce

Shares edge higher as turbulent week draws to a close

Fri Dec 28 2018 - 10:43

HMV winds up Hong Kong retail arm as streaming pressures persist

Retailer says it has faced ‘numerous struggles’ as Spotify and Netflix make CDs and DVDs obsolete

Tue Dec 18 2018 - 17:29

This Album Changed My Life: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)

Silverbacks’ Daniel O’Kelly on a seminal album in his band’s formation

Sat Sept 29 2018 - 05:00

This Album Changed My Life: Nirvana – Unplugged in New York (1994)

Conor Cusack of Spies on the album that made him fall in love with music

Sat Aug 25 2018 - 05:00

Legal music streaming services help boost Universal’s Irish revenues

Music label returns to profit in Ireland as turnover jumps 37%

Wed Aug 22 2018 - 15:28

Qatari billionaire invests in Irish marketing business

Dublin-based iZest to double workforce on back of Wissam Al-Mana’s €1m investment

Mon Jun 04 2018 - 19:38

Waterstones heads into its critical next chapter

Cantillon: Bookseller plots expansion under new owners – and in Amazon’s shadow

Sat Apr 28 2018 - 04:10

Hodges Figgis: A 250-year-old story of selling books

‘On Christmas Eve there was always a sherry reception for the customers’

Sat Apr 21 2018 - 06:00

Irish profits up at Waterstones despite sales decline

Russian-owned chain recorded 29% profit increase in year to April 2017

Wed Feb 28 2018 - 16:14

This Album Changed My Life: Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (1971)

Paul Alwright, FKA Lethal Dialect, on the soul singer’s seminal recording

Sat Feb 10 2018 - 05:00

Christmas shopping online: How to get it all wrapped up

Online shopping is a huge boon for the time-poor, but beware the many pitfalls

Tue Nov 28 2017 - 06:00

Remembering the real ‘inventors of jazz’

This year marks the centenary of the first ever jazz record by five white musicians from New Orleans called The Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Sat Jul 08 2017 - 05:00

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