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Zavvi is to make significantly more space for games in-store after the category shone for the retailer during the Christmas period. The general entertainment store looks set to reduce its music offering to make way for the move, the second time it has increased its dedicated games space in under …

Entertainment retailer Zavvi is offering pre-order cards for highly anticipated Rockstar title Grand Theft Auto IV, ensuring customers receive a copy on the day of release. The retailer offered a similar scheme for the release of Halo 3 last year. These highly collectable cards will add value to our customer’s …

Whilst many across the retail community have been counting the cost of a disappointing Christmas period, the games market has seen yet another bumper festive period on the High Street. In the week that the retail analyst SPSL stated that many days during the Christmas period retail performance were ‘hugely …

Zavvi has released results based on its first Christmas since it began trading under its new name, and reports a year on year sales rise comapared to Virgin Megastores’ 2006 festive period. The new chain boasts a 10.8 per cent increase in sales on the previous year when trading as …

Though it only has ten remaining stores in North America, Virgin Megastores has announced Q4 growth of 11.5 per cent in the territory compared to the same period in the year before. Video game sales increased by 111.9 per cent, ahead of the 18.1 per cent rise in DVD sales …

Entertainment retail chain Zavvi has teamed up with Nintendo to create a dedicated in-store area designed to promote the publisher’s consoles plus first and third party titles. The format holder’s devoted section has been set up in Zavvi’s flagship store in Oxford Street, London. The set-up is part of the …

With its previous identity now officially behind it , the newly born High Street and online retailer Zavvi is to be begin its first heavyweight marketing push on November 29th, Brand Republic reports. The retailer will focus its Christmas message on its ability to cater for a wide variety of …

The huge Zavvi roll-out that will once and for all see the Virgin Megastore name disappear from the UK’s High Streets has today completed, with the retailer calling it the fastest re-brand in entertainment retail history.” Stephen Lynn, senior PR and promotions manager at Zavvi Entertainment group told MCV last …

Newly independent entertainment retail chain Zavvi has made a bold gesture of dedication to its games business by introducing a ‘mini E3′ at its annual Christmas conference. The six-hour event gave 125 Zavvi store managers and 30 games specialists the chance to sample a number of key forthcoming titles. THQ, …

Newly independent entertainment retail chain Zavvi has made a bold gesture of dedication to its games business by introducing a ‘mini E3′ at its annual Christmas conference. The six-hour event gave 125 Zavvi store managers and 30 games specialists the chance to sample a number of key forthcoming titles. THQ, …