HMV BUYS BRAND

Book & music retailer, HMV, buys the Fopp brand in the UK and plans to reopen six of their stores after the company went into liqiudation earlier in the year with 700 redundancies.

This from the BBC.

Picture shows Fopp's Covent Garden store, one of those to be revived. HMV plan to keep the Fopp brand and to operate the stores independently.