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A bumper Christmas that saw non-food sales grow at three times the rate as groceries has lead Sainsbury’s to declare that it is one of the fastest entertainment retailers”. The supermarket reported record Q3 sales for the three months ending January 14th 2011, with total year-on-year growth of six per …
Read More »GameStop reports like-for-like Xmas gains
Global games retail giant GameStop has reported a 3.4 per cent like-for-like sales boost for the nine weeks ending January 1st. Overall the retailer saw 5.4 per cent growth compared to Christmas 2009. Revenues for the period hit $3.02bn. Hardware sales were up 7.4 per cent year-on-year with Microsoft’s Xbox …
Read More »HMV to close 60 stores by 2012
Entertainment giant HMV is facing troubling times as the chain revealed that it is to close 60 stores (including some Waterstones bookshops) over the next 12 months. That number represents 9 per cent of the chain’s 700 outlets. HMV has 285 shops in the UK and Ireland. Shares in the …
Read More »Black Ops crowned Xmas No.1
As was predicted by pretty much everybody last week, Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has been named as the UK’s official Christmas Number One video game. The game has now sold over 3m copies in the UK, making it one of only three games to top the 100m mark …
Read More »Black Ops targets Xmas No.1
With just two days of selling left in Chart-Track’s current sales week, any title hoping to capture one of the year’s most coveted sales crowns has its work cut out if it wants to topple this week’s chart topper Call of Duty: Black Ops. The shooter currently sits comfortably at …
Read More »Distributors Christmas opening hours
The following guide offers you the details on who is open when this Christmas. Print his page or click here to download a sexy PDF.Advantage0121 506 9585 Dec 13th to Dec 17th: 9am – 5.30pmDec 18th: 9am – 2.30pmDec 20th to Dec 23rd: 9am – 6pmDec 24th to Dec 28th: …
Read More »Online to take 25% of Christmas spending
The biggest retailers on the web are expected to take a quarter of all Christmas spending this year. Figures from retail research firm Kantar Worldpnael show that 25% of Christmas presents in 2010 will be purchased from outlets such as Amazon, eBay and Play.com. Interestingly, it is older generations who …
Read More »GAME boosts hardware trade-in deals
Both GAME and Gamestation are offering customers and extra 20 per cent on their normal trade-in price for anyone who hands over their old hardware between today (November 26th) and Thursday December 9th. As an example, the retailers will now offer 180 for a 160GB PS3 – until today it …
Read More »Koch taps into Christmas Doctor Who fever
The annual hype for Doctor Who is sure to boost the Wii/DS tie-in games this Christmas, says Koch. Doctor Who toys and merchandise are regularly big sellers each Christmas, and the show’s annual special episode (previewed tonight on BBC 1’s Children in Need) is one of the most-watched TV broadcasts …
Read More »Xmas boost predicted for Shred
Despite the poor performance from Tony Hawk’s Shred so far at retail, the key Christmas period could yet bring success to the title, Activision has claimed. Yesterday MCV reported that the game sold just 3,000 units in its first week on sale in the US, a number that represents a …
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