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HMV in live music takeover deal
Entertainment firm HMV is expanding its presence in the live music market by buying venue owner MAMA Group for £46m.
HMV’s move comes nearly a year after it took a 9.9% stake in MAMA, which runs 11 concert venues including the Hammersmith Apollo.
MAMA also owns other interests, including an artist management business which represents bands such [...]
Event Report – Bounce (London, UK)
This last week saw TMV attend the latest ‘Bounce night’, a series of London-based music industry events that are seeking to strengthen the connections between music, brands and media. Bounce is the brain child of KLP Entertainment, the music communications agency.
The hosts for this particular night were the Mama Group (UK venue owners, 50% owned [...]
Why doesn’t the music industry have answers to the big questions?
This week Keith Jopling has kindly let TMV re-publish the post from his blog Juggernaut Brew examining why the music sector rarely has decent answers to the big questions that continually plague the industry. As Keith was the key stats man at international recording industry body IFPI he certainly has some dynamic insight. So without [...]
TGE Video Interview with Gary Warren, Commercial Director – HMV UK & Ireland
This week TMV have posted another video interview we did at The Great Escape in Brighton. This time round we have Gary Warren from HMV in the hot TMV seat. On the change of the retail landscape Gary states that HMV have still witnessed growth within different segments of the physical market in terms of [...]
HMV UK Acquires Stake In Mama Group
His master’s voice has just got slightly louder in the UK.
Music retailer HMV Group has entered the British live music game with its purchase of a 50% stake in the Mama Group.
The joint venture includes 11 live music and entertainment venues in the UK, including the Hammersmith Apollo in London, which will be renamed the [...]
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