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The Hut buys its Zavvi savvy
News Zavvi was formed in 2007 through a management buyout of Virgin Megastores. Assets of the defunct multichannel entertainment retailer Zavvi have been acquired by The Hut Group for an undisclosed sum. The Hut - which runs... [03 Mar 2009]
Zavvi says it's time to get net-savvy
News In an interview with silicon.com, Zavvi IT director Tony Johnson said the retailer, which was formerly branded Virgin Megastores before a management buyout in September 2007, is late to market in its internet channel. [09 Oct 2008]
IP Network Helps Virgin Megastores Enhance the Retail Experience
White Paper Like other music and entertainment retailers, Virgin Megastores is endeavoring to cope with the decline in music sales across the industry; customers are not purchasing as many CDs and DVDs as previously. [04 Aug 2008]
Virgin Retail Saves 8.5 Hours a Week in Each Store With New Stock Solution
White Paper Since the first Virgin record shop opened in 1971, the company has expanded its operations to 105 Virgin Megastores across the U.K.and Ireland. Virgin Retail is a United Kingdom (U.K.success story. The group, which... [30 Apr 2008]
Virgin Megastores USA Turns Up the Volume With Unified Communications
White Paper To stay competitive in the constantly shifting entertainment market, Virgin Megastores USA relies on strong communications between its home office in Los Angeles and its stores throughout the country. [20 Feb 2008]
Entertainment Retailer Expects Store Data Analysis to Increase Sales by $1.8 Million
White Paper Virgin Entertainment Group operates Virgin Megastores, one of the largest entertainment media retail specialty chains in the United States. Virgin wanted to increase the effectiveness of its store managers and product... [03 Jul 2007]
Webcast: Innovating within a Retail Industry Disrupted by the Web
White Paper Fort is responsible for the switch from analog CD listening stations to digital kiosks in Virgin Megastores where listeners can now browse the entire store inventory online. CIO of Virgin Entertainment Group, Robert Fort... [25 Oct 2006]
CIO Jury: Web 2.0 lessons for businesses
News Tony Johnson, IT director at Virgin Megastores Web 2.0 is more than just another over-hyped consumer fad and will lead to "seismic" changes in the IT industry that businesses will need to learn from, according to CIOs. [24 Aug 2006]
CIO Jury: India can challenge the 'big six'
News Tony Johnson, IT director, Virgin Megastores More than 40 per cent of the $88bn of outsourcing deals up for renewal over the next two years are likely to go to companies from lower-cost locations such as India, according... [03 Aug 2006]
CIO Jury: No hurry to upgrade to Windows Vista
News Tony Johnson, IT director, Virgin Megastores Microsoft is set to finally release Windows Vista early next year but IT chiefs say they are in no hurry to upgrade to the new operating system. All of silicon.com's 12-strong... [29 Jun 2006]
CIO Jury: 'Gas-guzzling' PCs pose IT power issues
News Tony Johnson, IT director, Virgin Megastores The rising cost of electricity and thus of running IT hardware is becoming an increasingly significant issue for organisations, according to UK IT chiefs. Just last week, new... [17 May 2006]
CIO Jury: Legacy is biggest IT headache
News Tony Johnson, IT director, Virgin Megastores Analyst Gartner warned in its 10-year technology vision earlier this month that those businesses which remain shackled to their creaking legacy systems will find it hard to... [15 Mar 2006]
Photos: Highlights from the silicon.com CIO Forum
Photo Tony Johnson, IT director at Virgin Megastores, (far left on the panel), said: "We've been trying for some time to do security tagging. George Polk, the founder of The Cloud, delivering the keynote to a packed room of... [28 Sep 2005]
CIO Forum: Who's getting the RFID benefits?
News Tony Johnson, IT director at Virgin Megastores, said: "We've been trying for some time to do security tagging. RFID is all very well for securing the supply chain but CIOs must make sure benefits are being shared equally... [27 Sep 2005]
CIO Jury: ISPs blamed over corporate security threats
News Tony Johnson, IT director, Virgin Megastores Internet service providers (ISPs) are failing to do enough to stem the tide of denial of service attacks, phishing scams and spam email bombarding corporate networks and... [09 Sep 2005]
