HMV disappeared from the Canadian landscape back in 2017, taking dozens of record store locations down with it. Enter Doug Putnam, the Hamilton-area entrepreneur who snapped up old HMV leases and expanded Sunrise
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When HMV collapsed under a mountain of debt, everyone rightly believed that it was the end of a record store chain that had been around for almost a hundred years. Canadian businessman Doug
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Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss. Music news, however, keeps changing. Here’s what I’ve got for October 22, 2019. This week’s Canadian music sales and streaming stats vs. where things were
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At the height of its powers, HMV had more than 300 stores in the UK. That all came apart a couple of years back when the whole chain went bankrupt and it looked
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The reason HMV still exists in the UK is because the financially-distressed chain was rescued by Doug Putnam, the head of Canada’s Sunrise Records. He enjoyed turning things around in this country so
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Go home, winter. You’re drunk. Time for a look at music news for March 7, 2019. The Prodigy’s Keith Flint was seen dining out with his personal trainer just hours before he died.
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After negotiating throughout the night, Sunrise Records CEO Doug Putnam signed a deal to purchase HMV UK at 5:30 am London time Tuesday (February 5). Sunrise now has 127 new stores. What else
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Some twenty-four hours after we heard that Sunrise Records’ CEO Doug Putnam put in an offer to buy the remains of the financially-stressed HMV UK, the deal has gone through. Sunrise, based in
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When HMV announced that it was kaput, Doug Putnam, the owner of the nine-location-strong Sunrise Records, stepped in to take over the leases of about 100 HMV stores. So how are things going?
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