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Virgin Megastores is a chain of record shops scattered throughout the world, established by Richard Branson. The first Virgin record store opened in London's Oxford Street in 1971. In 1979 the company opened their first Megastore at the end of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. There are now over 120 stores throughout the UK (including Virgin xs and Virgin Xpress) and many more stores around the world, with an online store and a digital download service. In 2001 the Virgin Megastores worldwide were split between the Virgin Group and the Lagardere group.The Virgin Group owns the UK, Ireland, USA and Japan stores while The Lagardere group owns the stores in France, United Arab Emirates, Greece, Egypt and Lebanon. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950, Shamley Green, Surrey), sometimes abbreviated as SRB for Sir Richard Branson, is a British entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand, a banner that encompasses a variety of businesses. ...
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Virgin XS
Virgin XS is the clearance arm of Virgin Megastores. There are approximately 30 Virgin XS stores and they are generally located in small units within outlet centres throughout the UK. Virgin Megastores are a chain of record shops throughout the world, established by Richard Branson. ...
Virgin XS stores stock the same charts as normal Virgin Megastores but they also sell through all Virgin Megastores sleeveless stock (Stock without their original packaging) at reduced prices as well as having various multibuy offers on back catalogue stock.
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Product selection Virgin has one of the biggest collections of music, film and games available on the high street. Products sold here are not just Virgin branded items. Stores have a wide selection of CDs, games, books, DVDs, vinyl records, MP3 players, magazines, accessories and additional products such as calendars and board games. Note that not all of these products (e.g. vinyl) are carried by all Virgin stores, though the larger UK stores do stock the full product range. Virgin Mobile products can also be found in separately run Virgin Mobile Concessions within most Virgin Megastores. Some stores also house cafes/coffee shops run by external companies. Refreshed Corporate logo of the Virgin Group introduced 2006 Usage of these images is restricted. ...
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Customer service All employees of the U.S. Virgin Megastores can be identified by their trademark red t-shirts which have the Virgin logo on the front, and the word STAFF on the back. As well, they are all required to wear, lanyards with their first name printed on them. Employees of Virgin Megastores and Virgin XS/Xpress in the UK and EIRE wear Virgin branded black T-Shirts with "Need Help? Just Ask" written on the front and "The V Team" on the back. Senior members of staff wear a MOD (Manager On Duty)lanyard. Only the Assistant Manager and Store Manager wear name badges, also stating their position. Image File history File links Lanyard. ...
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Virgin vs. the Competition As more and more high street stores venture into the media sales market keeping up with competition is proving to be a hard fought battle for the UK Megastores. Big name supermarket chains in particular have adopted stocking popular music and DVD titles at increasingly low prices. For example the DVD Wedding Crashers, released 28 December 2005 retailed at Tesco for £15.97 compared to a Virgin price of £19.99. The popularity of Video games has also seen cheaper competition keeping the customers away from the Megastores. A report published in August 2005 stated that Virgin Megastores have lost £260m in the past two years, according to accounts recently filed with Companies House, and remains solvent only with the help of hefty loans from other companies in Sir Richard's empire (Branson is passionate about his music shops, as it was the foundation he bulit his business on). The retail chain has borrowed £287m from related companies in the Virgin group, a debt that grew by £117m in the financial year to March 2004. Chairman John Jackson, a long-standing Branson lieutenant, said that since then the retailer has borrowed more from the parent company. However Virgin Megastores plans to break even in the 2006-2007 financial year. "A lot of hard work has been done to get the business into good shape," he said. Jackson said the first 18 weeks of this financial year had shown like-for-like sales similar to the year before, which was better than in the overall entertainment market. DVD (commonly Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
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The lenders in Sir Richard's empire are charging the retail chain an interest rate of 14% on the debt. A Virgin Group source said the company charges the rates that a venture capital firm would expect as a return.
The accounts stated that the music and video retailing business was still a "going concern" because the parent company had formally said it would provide enough funding for it to trade for at least 12 months. According to the accounts filed in Companies House, the Virgin Megastores group made an operating loss of £112m in the 14 months to the end of March 2004 due to escalating costs at the retail chain and the cost of re-organisation. A contributing factor was the inclusion in the accounts of the loss-making smaller stores, which were closed last year. Jackson said this should also lead to a loss for the next financial year. The year before, the operating loss had been £146m due to a writedown of the Our Price chain, which was bought from WH Smith in the late 1990s but struggled and was turned into V Shops in 2001. Turnover increased in the 14 months to the end of March, compared with the 12-month period previously, because the smaller stores were included. Our Price was a chain of record stores in the United Kingdom from the 1970s until the late 1990s. ...
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"During the year, the group encountered a difficult trading environment with significant price competition being experienced, in particular from supermarkets, that affected sales and margins," the company said in a review of the business in its accounts.
It said this prompted a "strategic review", which led to a £31m charge to cover leases and other restructuring costs. Despite massive amounts of money being spent on re-fits over the last few years and more focus being spend on their bigger stores the company as a whole struggles to break even. No profit being made during the period 2002 - 2006. This is a hard blow to the company who blame downloading and illegal copying as some of the major factors affecting their lack of sales. Sales in HMV Europe however, Virgin's biggest competetor for the full year ended April 2005 grew to £986.0 million and operating profit was £96.8 million. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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In recognition of the increased choice the customer is now offered when it comes to purchasing media, the Virgin chain has employed several strategies to secure customer loyalty as well as focus on higher standards of customer service. The 'Addict card' introduced in 2005 was brought in offering customers a stamp for every £10 spent in store. The idea being that once the customer has collected 10 stamps, they are awarded with a discount of £10 off their next purchase. Also introduced was the 'Mega-sharp' approach to customer service - a feature which is now integral to the 'Virgin Megastores Experience'. Staff are encouraged to ensure customers found everything they were looking for each and every time a customer walks through the door.
The ongoing discounted sales within stores remain competitive with top CD/DVD/Games titles retailing for astonishingly low prices.
Competition against independent retailers mainly in the music sector doesn't pose a major threat for big companies such as the Megastores, however customers with a specialist taste usually find the independent stores more appealing offering more of a variety of 'hard to find' and 'rarer' titles.
Virgin also has an online service - www.virginmegastores.co.uk - which stocks the same entertainment product that can be found in the high street store, and has 48hr delivery guarantee and gift wrapping.
This same service is used in store for those customers who's item is currently out of stock. The system is called 'web enabled store' (WES) for short and guarantees the customer the item within 48 hrs and home delivery.
In 2005, Virgin Digital was launched to cater for those that bought their music digitally or wanted to rip and burn their current music collection. This is designed to add to the services provided by Virgin, rather than replace the Megastores. The download service has faced some criticism from consumer groups due to its in-compatibility with the highly popular iTunes program.
Technology
ELVIS The computer system at the heart of the UK Virgin Megastores is ELVIS - EPOS Linked Virgin Information System - designed for the Virgin chain in 1991. ELVIS collects data from the store's point-of-sale terminals for stock and sales reporting; provides instant information for customers on all the store's product lines, holds play list information for Virgin Megastore Radio (accessible by all stores simultaneously); and allows for electronic re-ordering from suppliers. As of September 2006 ELVIS was updated to utilise RealTime Polling. This means that now all inventory updates every 15 minutes, giving an accurate representation of on hand stockholding as well as being a useful tool for producing Best-Seller reports.
GSA While the UK Stores use the ELVIS system, the Virgin Megastore chain in the United States has an entirely different GSA look-up system. This is a private network that links to all of the North American stores, and updates each store's product inventory every 24 to 48 hours. The GSA is accessible from the internet if one can obtain the exact internet address.
HAL Named after the evil computer in the Stanley Kubrick film, "2001", HAL is the name of the inventory replenishment system used throughout the American chain of Virgin Megastores. It got its name from many of the Virgin Staff who were tired of the way the program works. [citation needed] Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an artistically influential, Academy Award-winning and critically acclaimed American film director and producer. ...
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Virgin Megastores in Europe
UK - Aberdeen: One on Union Street with a Virgin Game Store next door and a smaller one inside the Bon Accord-St Nicholas Centre.
- Basingstoke: There is a small single-storey store in Festival Place.
- Belfast: (Castlecourt Shopping Centre)
- Bluewater: A two storied store is located on Thames Walk, opposite the Water Circus. Upstairs houses DVDs, games and other products such as phones by Virgin Mobile. Downstairs houses music, books, t-shirts and accessories.
- Brighton: (Churchill Square)
- Bristol: Inside Cribbs Causeway Mall.
- Cardiff: Two-storey store located at the Capitol Shopping Centre on the corner of Queen Street and Churchill Way.
- Chester: On Eastgate Street.
- Crawley: (County Mall)
- Derry/Londonderry: (Foyleside Shopping Centre)
- Dudley: (Merry Hill Shopping Centre)
- Dundee: (Wellgate Shopping Centre)
- Gateshead: (Metro Centre)
- Glasgow: One store on Buchanan Street, which is the largest record store in Europe, and a smaller store on Argyle Street there is also ane recently opened in the glasgow fort shopping centre, Easterhouse.
- Grimsby: One store, located inside Freshney Place Shopping Centre.
- Hereford: High Town
- Hull: Princes Quay
- Leeds: Leeds Shopping Plaza: Large two storied store which opened in 1997 and at the time was claimed to be the largest Virgin Megastore outside of London. Prior to the opening of this store Virgin Megastore was formerly located on Briggate.
- Leicester: (The Shires)
- Liverpool, Clayton Square Shopping Centre: Large two floored store in the city centre with hourly rate Internet access.
- London: Croydon (Centrale) Shopping Centre
- London: Oxford Street at St Giles' Circus
- London: Piccadilly Circus; the branch near Lillywhite's has now been joined by Number 1 Piccadilly, formerly owned by Tower Records)
- London: King's Road King's Walk shopping centre
- London: Bishopsgate; The Bishopsgate store is located opposite Liverpool Street Station at 152 Bishopsgate. The store is spread over two floors, the Ground Floor and the Basement. The Ground Floor houses CD, Singles, DVD and Games Chart and New Release Titles while the Basement floor is given over to Back Catalogue CD, DVD and Music DVD as well as the Virgin Mobile concession.
- Manchester: Large three-floored store closed in 2005; leaving only a smaller Express store remaining in the city centre, although there is still a larger store in the Trafford Centre. A new Manchester city centre Virgin Megastore officially opened on 21 November 2006 in the Manchester Arndale Centre (See Video Of The Launch).
- Milton Keynes: Two storied store located in the recently opened Midsummer Place in Milton Keynes City Centre.
- Newcastle Upon Tyne : (Northumberland Street)
- Newry: (Buttercrane Shopping Centre)
- Newtownabbey (Abbey Centre)
- Nottingham: Virtually in Nottingham's Market Square on a very busy highstreet.
- Oxford: A two storied store is located on Cornmarket Street. The ground floor houses CD's and various items and offers. The upstairs houses DVD's, a bigger range of CD's and Video Games.
- Portsmouth: Branson opened his first store here in the (now demolished) (Tricorn Centre), once a major calling for the UK's unsigned music scene. It has since relocated to (Commercial Road)
- Sheffield, Fargate/Orchard Square: Large two floored store in the city centre refurbished in 2004. The ground floor houses music whilst downstairs houses video and classical music.
- Sheffield Meadowhall: single-floor megastore.
- Southampton: Two-storey store on Above Bar Street.
- Stevenage: There is a single floored Megastore at the end of the High Street in the new town.
- There are additional Megastores in such cities as Birmingham, Leicester and Edinburgh.
- There are also several smaller stores across the UK, some called Virgin Megastores Express and Virgin XS stores which can be found on the high street and at all major UK airports. Many of these stores were previously Our Price, a brand which was bought by the Virgin group in 1999.
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Germany Virgin Megastore withdrew from the German market in 1994, amid complaints that the country's shop-closing law was too restrictive. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the Ladenschlussgesetz (abbreviated: LadSchlG) was the federal law regulating at which times stores were required to be closed. ...
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France - Paris Downtown:
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- Champs-Élysées 52/60 avenue des Champs-Elysées 75008 Paris
- Louvre shopping mall Galerie du Carrousel du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli 75001 paris
- Grands boulevards, 5 bd Montmartre 75002 Paris
- Montmartre, 15 boulevard Barbès 75018 Paris
- Gare de Lyon Salle des Fresques Place Louis Armand 75571 Paris
- gare Montparnasse Place Raoul Dautr 75015 Paris
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- CC Belle Epine 94521 Thiais
- CC Carré Sénart 53 Place Ouest 77566 Lieusaint
- CC BAY2 51 mail Ouest - Collégien Marne La Vallée 77616 Torcy
- Orly Airport Aérogare Ouest Hall 1 Central 94547 Orly
- CC Bercy 24 place de l'Europe 94564 Charenton Le Pont
- 1 av de la source de Bièvres 78180 Montigny Le Bretonneux
- Centre Commercial Carrefour RN 3 77410 Claye-Souilly
- 87, Place des Arbalétriers 93200 Saint Denis
- Galerie commerciale Gare RER Puteaux 92080 La Défense
- Archamps Centre Commercial Alliance 74160 Archamps
- Avignon CC Cap Sud 84000 Avignon
- Bayonne 27 rue Victor Hugo 64110 Bayonne
- Bordeaux 15/19, place Gambetta 33000 Bordeaux
- Bordeaux CC Mérignac Soleil Porte 4 Avenue de la Somme 33700 Bordeaux
- Dunkerque Pôle Marine Quai des Fusiliers Marins 59140 Dunkerque
- Lyon, 41/43 rue du Président Edouard Herriot
- Lyon, Le Patio, 5 Place Charles Beraudier
- Marseille CC Géant Barnéoud Les Pennes Mirabeau 13170 Plan de Campagne
- Marseille 75 Rue Saint-Férréol 13251 Marseille
- Metz 61/63 rue Serpenoise 57000 Metz
- montpellier Les Halles Castelanne rue de la Loge 34000 Montpellier
- Nice 15 av. Jean Médecin 06000 Nice
- Rennes 6/10 rue Lebastard 35000 Rennes
- Rouen 14 rue Guillaume le Conquérant 76000 Rouen
- Strasbourg: 30 rue du 22 novembre 67000 Strasbourg
- Toulon Centre Commercial Grand Ciel 83130 Toulon-La Garde
- Toulouse 28 rue Alsace Lorraine 31000 Toulouse
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City flag City coat of arms Motto: (Arpitan: Forward, forward, Lyon the best) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Region Rhône-Alpes Department Rhône (69) Subdivisions 9 arrondissements Intercommunality Urban Community of Lyon Mayor Gérard Collomb (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land area...
City flag City coat of arms Motto: (Arpitan: Forward, forward, Lyon the best) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Region Rhône-Alpes Department Rhône (69) Subdivisions 9 arrondissements Intercommunality Urban Community of Lyon Mayor Gérard Collomb (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land area...
City flag Coat of arms Motto: By her great deeds, the city of Massilia shines Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Region Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Department Bouches-du-Rhône (13) Subdivisions 16 arrondissements (in 8 secteurs) Intercommunality Urban Community of Marseille Provence...
City flag Coat of arms Motto: By her great deeds, the city of Massilia shines Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Region Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Department Bouches-du-Rhône (13) Subdivisions 16 arrondissements (in 8 secteurs) Intercommunality Urban Community of Marseille Provence...
For other uses of Metz, see Metz (disambiguation) City motto: Si paix dedans, paix dehors (French: If peace inside, peace outside) City proper (commune) Région Lorraine Département Moselle (57) Mayor Jean-Marie Rausch Area 41. ...
Montpellier (Occitan Montpelhièr) is a city in the south of France. ...
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Some medieval houses, such as these at Champ-Jacquet, can still be found in the center of Rennes. ...
Rouen Cathedral The entrance to Rouen Cathedral Abbey church of Saint-Ouen, (chevet) in Rouen Rouen, medieval house Rouen (pronounced in French, sometimes also ) is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and presently the capital of the Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) région. ...
City flag City coat of arms Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Region Alsace Department Bas-Rhin (67) Intercommunality Urban Community of Strasbourg Mayor Fabienne Keller (UMP) (since 2001) City Statistics Land area¹ 78. ...
Panorama of Toulon area Satellite view Coat of Arms of Toulon view of Toulon harbour around 1750, by Joseph Vernet. ...
New city flag (Occitan cross) Traditional coat of arms Motto: (Occitan: For Toulouse, always more) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Region Midi-Pyrénées Department Haute-Garonne (31) Intercommunality Community of Agglomeration of Greater Toulouse Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc (UMP) (since 2004) City Statistics...
Greece Nickname: City of Athena or Cradle of Democracy Location of the city of Athens (red dot) within the Prefecture of Athens and Periphery of Attica Coordinates: Country Greece Peripheries Attica Prefecture Athens Founded circa 2000 BC Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis Area - City 38. ...
Syntagma Square (Πλατεῖα Συντάγματος; Constitution Square), is located in central Athens, Greece. ...
Virgin Megastores in North America
USA Downtown Tempe and Arizona State University Tempe (pronounced ) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA, with a population of 161,143 according to 2005 Census Bureau estimates. ...
Arizona Mills is an indoor outlet mall in Tempe, Arizona. ...
Nickname: Plaza City Motto: A Slice of Old Town Charm Location of Orange within Orange County, California. ...
The Block at Orange is an open-air shopping mall developed by Mills Corporation in Orange, California, a few miles east-southeast of Disneyland. ...
Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...
Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area - City 1290. ...
Ontario is a city located in San Bernardino County, California. ...
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Nickname: The City by the Bay; Fog City Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Area - City 122 km² (47 sq mi) - Land 121. ...
Nickname: The Mile-High City Location of Denver in Colorado Coordinates: Country United States State Colorado City-County Denver (coextensive) Founded November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area - City 401. ...
The view from 16th Street Mall and Larimer Street, overloking the Daniels & Fisher Tower The 16th Street Mall is a pedestrian and transit mall in Denver, Colorado. ...
Nickname: The City Beautiful, O-Town, 407 Location in Orange County and the state of Florida. ...
Cinderella Castle, at the center of the Magic Kingdom, is Walt Disney World Resorts most recognizable icon Introduction Owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company, the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, USA is home to four theme parks, two water parks, several resort hotels and golf courses...
There is also an area called Downtown Disney at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California; see Downtown Disney (California). ...
Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 606. ...
Michigan Avenue refers to remnants of Old U.S. Highway 12 that ran from downtown Detroit to Chicago. ...
Times Square For other uses, see Times Square (disambiguation) Times Square is the name given to a principal intersection, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets in the New York City borough of Manhattan. ...
Union Square Union Square (also known as Union Square Park) is an important and historic intersection in New York City, located where Broadway and the Bowery came together in the early 19th century. ...
Flag of Grapevine Grapevine is a city located in Tarrant County, Texas. ...
Salt Lake City redirects here. ...
Looking Down Rio Grande Street (which goes directly through the mall) The Gateway District is a large open air retail, residential and office complex in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. ...
Canada (historical) The only Virgin Megastore in Canada was in Vancouver, on the corner of Robson and Burrard. This location closed in September 2005, and has changed ownership to HMV, which has a similar inventory. Vancouver (pronounced: ) is a city in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. ...
Robson Street is a major southeast-northwest thoroughfare in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ...
Burrard Street is a major thoroughfare in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ...
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There was a project in Toronto, the Metropolis development, in which Virgin was meant to join. However, due to the dominance of HMV in Canada, Virgin decided to exit the Canadian market entirely.
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Melbourne, Victoria Chapel Street, looking south toward toward the Commercial Road intersection Chapel Street is one of Melbourne, Australias best shopping, dining and entertainment precincts. ...
South Yarra is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...
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Sydney, New South Wales The start of George Street in the historic Rocks district George Street is the main street of the city of Sydney, Australia. ...
The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia with a metropolitan area population of over 4. ...
North Asia - 23 stores in Japan:
- Utsunomiya, Tochigi
- Shinsaibashi, Osaka
- Kita-Senju, Tokyo
- Ikebukuro, Tokyo
- Ueno, Tokyo
- Nagoya, Aichi
- Sendai, Miyagi
- Atsugi, Kanagawa
- Kawasaki, Kanagawa
- Kawagoe, Saitama
- Shiki, Saitama
- Tokorozawa, Saitama
- Niigata, Niigata
- Matsuyama, Ehime
- Umeda, Osaka
- Mito, Ibaraki
- Mizoguchi, Kanagawa
- Machida, Tokyo
- Morioka, Iwate
- Soka, Saitama
- Kamata, Tokyo
- Shizuoka, Shizuoka
Utsunomiya (Japanese: 宇都宮市; -shi) is the capital and the most populous city of Tochigi, Japan. ...
Shinsaibashi (心斎橋) is a district of Osaka, Japan known as the citys main shopping center, located north of Namba. ...
Ikebukuro Ikebukuro at night Ikebukuro at night Ikebukuro (æ± è¢‹), a part of Toshima ward, is a large commercial and entertainment district of Tokyo, Japan. ...
Shinobazu Pond and Bentendo Hall in early spring Tokyo National Museum Pagoda of Kaneiji, now in Ueno Zoo Rodins Gates of Hell in front of the National Museum of Western Art Ueno (上野) is a district in Tokyos TaitŠWard, best known as the home of Ueno Station...
Nagoya Castle Nagoya (åå¤å±‹å¸‚; -shi) is the fourth largest (third largest metropolitan region) and the third most prosperous city in Japan. ...
Sendai ) is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, and the largest city in the TÅhoku (northeast) region. ...
Atsugi (Japanese: 厚木市; -shi) is a city located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. ...
A symbol of Kawasaki-shi Temple at Kawasaki. ...
Kawagoes shops, temples and tower retain a feeling of the Edo period Kawagoe (å·è¶Šå¸‚) is a city located in Saitama, Japan and is about a 30-minute train ride from Tokyo. ...
There is also a Siki in Magnesia, Greece, see Siki, Greece Shiki (志木市 Shiki-shi) is a city located in Saitama, Japan. ...
Tokorozawa (Japanese: 所沢市; -shi) is a city located in Saitama, Japan. ...
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Matsuyama ) is the capital city of Ehime Prefecture on the Shikoku island of Japan. ...
Osaka Station South Gate Umeda Shinmichi Umeda (梅田) is a commercial district in Kita-ku Osaka, Japan, best known as the citys main northern railway terminus (Osaka Station, Umeda Station). ...
, Mito (水戸市; -shi) is the capital of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. ...
A symbol of Kawasaki-shi Temple at Kawasaki. ...
One of the ponds of Yakushi-Ike Park in Machida, Tokyo. ...
Morioka (盛岡市; -shi) is the capital city of Iwate prefecture, Japan. ...
Sōka (草加市 Sōka-shi) is a city located in Saitama, Japan. ...
Ōta (Japanese: 大田区 -ku) is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. ...
Shizuoka (é™å²¡å¸‚; -shi) is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. ...
North Africa and Middle East - Cairo: City Stars
- Doha: A Virgin Megastore is set to open in the Villagio mall soon.
- Kuwait City: Virgin opened this brand new store mere days before the 2003 Iraq War; it is located in the ultra-popular Marina World complex and is the largest Virgin Megastore in the Middle East
- Beirut: (Martyrs Square) This Megastore is located in the old Beirut Opera House.
- U.A.E.: Abu-Dhabi Mall in Abu-Dhabi, there is also a Virgin Megastore in Dubai in the Deira City Centre Mall, Burjuman Mall, Mercato Mall & Mall of The Emirates.
Nickname: Al Qahirah (The Triumphant City) Cairos location in Egypt Coordinates: Governor Dr. Abdul Azim Wazir Area - City 210 km² - Metro 1,492 km² Population (2005) - City 7,438,376 - Density 35,420/km² - Urban 10,834,495 - Metro 15,200,000 Time zone EET (UTC+2) - Summer (DST...
Inside the shopping mall City Stars is the latest commercial development in Egypt with an investment of more than 750 million dollars. ...
Doha (Arabic: ‎, translit: or ), population 400,051 (2005 census), is the capital of Qatar and is at , on the Persian Gulf. ...
Kuwait City Kuwait City (also Al-Kuwait - الكويت), population 32,403 (2005 Census), is the capital of the emirate of Kuwait and part of the Al-Asimah governorate. ...
For other uses of the term, see Iraq war (disambiguation) The 2003 invasion of Iraq (also called the 2nd or 3rd Persian Gulf War) began on March 20, 2003, when forces belonging primarily to the United States and the United Kingdom invaded Iraq without the explicit backing of the United...
Kuwaits largest shopping mall, Marina World, opened its first phase to international acclaim in November 2002. ...
A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...
For other uses, see Beirut (disambiguation). ...
UAE redirects here; for other uses of that term, see UAE (disambiguation) The United Arab Emirates is an oil-rich country situated in the south-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia, comprising seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al-Quwain. ...
In Store Audio Most stores include an in-store radio station. In the USA these are branded Virgin Radio, although are not related to Virgin Radio in London. In the UK, Virgin Music Radio (VMR) has ceased to broadcast from its home in the Oxford Street Megastore to the rest of the estate and now stores are required to play cd's from stock over their own instore stereo systems. Virgin Radio, originally known as Virgin 1215, is a British commercial music radio station based in London which plays popular music and rock. ...
U.S. Virgin Radio is not a broadcast radio station, however, a DJ operated hard-lines system which broadcasts throughout the store, and the complex in which the store is located. For example: in the Times Square store, not only can the DJ's selections be heard from the retail floor, as well the music can be heard in the office areas, processing areas, and even out on the store's Broadway sidewalk. A view of Broadway in 1909 Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City, and is the oldest north-south main thoroughfare in the city, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement. ...
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