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HMV Group operates from approximately 680 shops in 7 countries and total retail floor space of 3.6 million square feet (following the disposal of HMV Japan)


For the full year ended April 2007, HMV Group had a turnover of £1,894.5 million (FY April 2006 £1,825.9 million) and an operating profit of £57.3 million (FY April 2006: £102.6 million)


HMV UK & Ireland sold 78 million CD and DVD units and Waterstone's 58 million books in the FY ended April 2007

HMV UK & Ireland
HMV UK & Ireland operates from 237 stores, as at April 2007
Sales in HMV UK & Ireland for the full year ended April 2007 were £932.2 million (FY April 2006: £937.2 million) and operating profit was £24.3 million (FY April 2006: £60.6 million)
Music represents 37% of HMV UK & Ireland sales, DVD 47% and games software and hardware 12% (other related products 4%)as at the full year ended April
HMV was named Best Retail Chain in the 2007 Music Week Awards for a ninth consecutive year, DVD Retailer of the Year and Multi-channel Retailer of the Year at the 2007 Home Entertainment Week (HEW) Awards and Retailer of the Year in games at the 2006 MCV Industry Excellence Awards

HMV International
HMV Canada operates from 116 stores and 500,000 sq ft, as at April 2007
HMV is Canada’s market leading music retailer
Sales in HMV Canada for the full year ended April 2007 were 187.2 million (FY April 2006: £194.5 million) and operating profit was £11.8 million (FY April 2006 £12.5 million)
HMV Canada has seen DVD grow to 47% of sales for the full year ended April 2007, from 44% in the prior year
HMV Canada received the Canadian Music Industry Awards Retail Chain of the Year for the 19th successive year in 2007
HMV operates from five stores in Hong Kong and two stores in Singapore, over a total 52,000 sq ft
HMV Japan, which operated from 62 shops, was sold in August 2007 for approximately £70.0m. This business had sales in 2006/07 of £210 million and Ebitda of £8.5 million

Waterstone's
Waterstone’s operates from 323 stores over 1.8 million square feet (as at April 2007)
Waterstone’s also trades as Hatchards (London) and Hodges Figgis (Dublin), and operates two specialist English-language bookshops in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and Belgium (Brussels)
On sales of £537.5 million (FY April 2006: £418.7 million), Waterstone’s recorded an operating profit of £16.3 million (FY April 2006: £20.9 million) for the full year ended April 2007
Some 50% of Waterstone’s sales are made from titles ranked 5,000 and below in the list of best-selling books

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