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| HMV Group |
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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)
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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)
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HMV UK & Ireland sold 78 million CD and DVD units and Waterstone's 58 million books in the FY ended April 2007 |
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| HMV UK & Ireland |
| HMV UK & Ireland operates from 237 stores, as at April 2007 |
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| 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)
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| HMV International |
| HMV Canada operates from 116 stores and 500,000 sq ft, as at April 2007 |
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| HMV is Canada’s market leading music retailer |
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| 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) |
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| HMV Canada has seen DVD grow to 47% of sales for the full year ended April 2007, from 44% in the prior year |
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| HMV Canada received the Canadian Music Industry Awards Retail Chain of the Year for the 19th successive year in 2007 |
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| HMV operates from five stores in Hong Kong and two stores in Singapore, over a total 52,000 sq ft |
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| 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 |
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| Waterstone's |
| Waterstone’s operates from 323 stores over 1.8 million square feet (as at April 2007) |
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 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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