Administrators Deloitte have sold the HMV retail business as a going concern to Hilco. 141 shops (list below) and the group head office and distribution functions are transferred to Hilco safeguarding 2,643 jobs.
The 141 stores
included in the sale are:
Aberdeen, Ayr,
Banbury, Bangor (Wales), Basildon, Basingstoke, Bath, Belfast Donegall Arcade,
Birmingham Bullring, Blackpool, Bluewater, Bournemouth, Bradford, Brighton
Churchill, Bristol Broadmead, Bristol Cribbs, Bromley, Bury, Bury St Edmunds,
Cambridge, Canary Wharf, Canterbury, Cardiff, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Cheltenham,
Chester, Chichester, Colchester, Coventry, Crawley, Cwmbran, Darlington, Derby,
Doncaster, Dundee, East Kilbride, Eastbourne, Edinburgh Fort Retail, Edinburgh
Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh Princes Street, Exeter, FOPP Bristol, FOPP Cambridge,
FOPP Covent Garden, FOPP Edinburgh, FOPP Glasgow Byres Road, FOPP Glasgow Union
Street, FOPP Gower Street London, FOPP Manchester, FOPP Nottingham, Gateshead,
Glasgow Argyle, Glasgow Buchanan, Glasgow Fort, Gloucester, Grimsby, Guernsey,
Guildford, Hanley, Harlow, Harrogate, Hastings, Hatfield, Hereford, High
Wycombe, Horsham, Hull, Inverness, Ipswich, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight,
Islington, Jersey, Kettering, Kings Lynn, Kingston, Leamington Spa, Leeds
Headrow, Leeds White Rose, Leicester, Lincoln, Liverpool One, Livingston,
Llandudno, Maidstone, Manchester 90 Market Street, Manchester Trafford,
Mansfield, Merry Hill, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Newport
(Wales), Northampton, Norwich Gentlemans Walk, Norwich Chapelfield, Nottingham
Victoria, Nuneaton, Oxford, Oxford Circus, Peterborough Queensgate, Plymouth
Drake Circus, Poole, Portsmouth Commercial Road, Portsmouth Gun Wharf Quay,
Preston, Reading Oracle, Romford, Selfridges Oxford Street, Sheffield High
Street, Sheffield Meadowhall, Shrewsbury, Solihull, Southampton, Southend
Victoria, Southport, Speke Park, Staines, Stevenage, Stirling, Stockport,
Stratford upon Avon, Stratford City Westfield, Sunderland, Sutton, Swansea,
Taunton, Thanet, Thurrock, Truro, Tunbridge Wells, Uxbridge, Westfield London,
Wimbledon, Winchester, Wolverhampton, Worcester, Worthing, Yeovil, York.
20 February - HMV administrators have announced a further 37 store closures affecting 464 staff - expected to close in 4-6 weeks. They are
Ashford, Basildon, Bolton, Cheltenham, East Kilbride, Enfield, Folkestone,
Glasgow Argyle, Gloucester, Grimsby, Hatfield Galleria, Heathrow T5 Departure
Level, Heathrow Terminal 1, Heathrow Terminal 3, Heathrow Terminal 4, Hemel
Hempstead, High Wycombe, Isle of Wight, Lancaster, Leadenhall, Mansfield,
Middlesbrough, Newbury, Newcastle Silverlink, Newport, Nuneaton, Redditch,
Salisbury, Scarborough, Southport, Stafford, Staines, Stockport, Swindon,
Taunton, Torquay, Woking.
The 66 stores already identified for closure - announced on 7 February - are:
Ashton-under-Lyne, Ballymena, Barnsley, Bayswater, Belfast Boucher Road,
Belfast Forestside, Bexleyheath, Birkenhead, Birmingham Fort, Blackburn,
Boston, Bournemouth Castlepoint, Bracknell, Burton-upon-Trent, Camberley,
Chesterfield, Coleraine, Craigavon, Croydon Centrale, Derry, Dumfries, Durham,
Edinburgh Fort, Edinburgh Gyle Centre, Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh Princes
Street, Edinburgh St James, Falkirk, Fulham, Glasgow – Fort, Glasgow –
Silverburn, Glasgow Braehead, Huddersfield, Kirkcaldy, Leamington Spa, Leeds
White Rose, Lisburn, Loughborough, Luton, Manchester 90, Moorgate, Newry,
Newtonabbey, Orpington, Rochdale, Scunthorpe, South Shields, Speke Park, St
Albans, St Helens, Stockton-on-Tees, Tamworth, Teesside, Telford, Trocadero,
Wakefield, Walsall, Walton-on-Thames, Wandsworth, Warrington, Watford,
Wellingborough, Wigan, Wood Green, Workington, Wrexham.
