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HMV shop in the Elements, Kowloon, Hong Kong, in 2007. In 1994, HMV opened its first store in Hong Kong at Windsor House, 311 Gloucester Road. Following this, HMV expanded into new shopping malls across the region. The Tsim Sha Tsui flagship store, located at the corner of Peking Road and Hankow Road, was the largest record shop in the territory.
On 30 January 2011, HMV closed the Fopp shop in Exeter due to poor sales in the recent reform of HMV. It was the first Fopp shop to close under the HMV banner. In January 2014, Fopp announced it would be closing the London Gower Street branch within Waterstone's on 18 January 2014, with the remaining business transferring to the Covent Garden ...
Waterstones in Wakefield occupies the city's former HMV branch. Following an attempt by Tim Waterstone in 1997 to buy the entire WHSmith group, [citation needed] WHSmith sold the Waterstones chain for £300 million to HMV Media plc (now HMV Group)—a joint venture between EMI, Advent International and Tim Waterstone. [7]
HMV Australia (1989–2010, "HMV" initials and "His Master's Voice" are both owned by Hilco Capital). HMV Germany (1990s–2000s, "HMV" initials and "His Master's Voice" are both owned by Hilco Capital). HMV Hong Kong and HMV Singapore (1990s–2010s, "HMV" initials and "His Master's Voice" are both owned by HMV Brand Pte Ltd).
The HMV Vault in Birmingham, England is now the world's largest record shop, opening its doors in October 2019. Before this, the former HMV in Oxford Street, London, England claimed to be the world's largest record store. The shop was originally opened in 1921 by the composer Sir Edward Elgar and had four floors of CDs, LPs, singles and DVDs.
This Vancouver HMV location would later close in 2012. [118] There were also plans to build its second Canadian store at Metropolis (later Toronto Life Square, now 10 Dundas East) in Downtown Toronto, just south of the since-closed Sam the Record Man flagship store as well as HMV's existing Toronto flagship. However, the exit from Canada ...
In January 2024, the chain announced that it would revive the HMV brand in Canada (which Putman had acquired via Sunrise in 2019) [6] as a store-within-a-store concept at Toys "R" Us Canada locations, stocking music, home video, and memorabilia such as books and clothing. The departments began to launch at selected locations in the Greater ...
For a period, Sunrise was considered one of the five major record store chains in Canada, alongside HMV Canada, Music World, Sam the Record Man, and A&A Records. However, by the 2000s, with the shift towards online music stores and other factors (including the dominance of HMV), most of these smaller chains downsized or shut down.