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Zavvi is an online retailer of entertainment products, including Blu-ray discs, collectables, homeware and toys.Originally a physical retailer, the brand has been online only since it was bought from administration by The Hut Group (THG) in 2009. [1]
With the change of ownership the Virgin Megastores disappeared and were replaced with a new name 'Zavvi'. All 125 stores remained trading and the change was fully implemented by late November 2007. In January 2008 the online system was also rebranded to "zavvi.co.uk" and Virgin Megastores Ireland changed to 'Zavvi Ireland'.
Head Entertainment LLP was a British entertainment retail chain founded in February 2009. It was established after the entertainment retailer Zavvi went into administration in December 2008, with some of its founders being former Zavvi directors who aimed to save a number of Zavvi stores and jobs.
The London stores in Piccadilly and Kensington were sold to Virgin Group in 2003, who for a while traded under the Tower brand at the former site until the store could be fully refurbished, while the other stores were closed. The store was subsequently renamed Zavvi in September 2007 after a management buyout of the Virgin Megastores. Zavvi ...
Luria's – originally L. Luria & Son, was a chain of catalog showroom stores in Florida, from 1961 to 1997. Service Merchandise – closed all its retail stores by early 2002; the name was resurrected in 2004 for an online retail operation [41] [42] Witmark – operated in southwestern Michigan; founded 1969, liquidated 1997 [43] [44]
It also ran two Amazon Marketplace stores on Amazon.co.uk; "market plus", run by the offshore subsidiary Entertainment Plus (Guernsey) Ltd, and "direct-offers", the UK based stock clearance arm of Entertainment UK. As a consequence of EUK entering administration, Zavvi became unable to source stock on favourable terms from other supplies.
Service Merchandise's history can be traced to 1934, to a small five-and-dime store founded by Harry and Mary Zimmerman in the town of Pulaski, Tennessee.After leaving the wholesale business, they opened Service Merchandise, Inc., the first of what evolved into a chain of catalog showrooms.
Eastland Mall is a defunct shopping mall in Columbus, Ohio.The mall opened February 14, 1968 and closed on December 27, 2022. [2] There are 4 vacant anchor stores that were once Lazarus, JCPenney, Sears, and Macy's (built as Kaufmann's).