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Sunrise Records (retailer)
2428391 Ontario Inc. (trading as Sunrise Records) is a Canadian record store chain based in Hamilton, Ontario. Currently owned by Doug Putman (whose family also runs Everest Toys), it currently operates in nine Canadian provinces. Originally operating with only 9 locations in Ontario, the chain announced a major expansion in February 2017, under which it purchased leases for 70 locations formerly occupied by HMV Canada. The chain runs approximately 85 locations across Canada. In February 2019, Sunrise Records expanded internationally, buying a number of the British HMV and Fopp stores out of administration, as well as returning HMV to Canada and Ireland, and entering the Belgian market. In January 2020, Sunrise Records purchased FYE in the United States. History The company was founded in Toronto in 1977, with a location on Yonge Street. It was bought in 1978 by Malcolm and Roy Perlman. For a period, Sunrise was considered one of the five major record store chains in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Putman Investments
Douglas Robert Putman (born 25 March 1984) is a billionaire Canadian businessman, predominately trading in the retail sector across North America and Europe. Through his firm, Putman Investments, he owns numerous retail chains involving music, entertainment, toys and home goods. Early life Douglas Putman was born on 25 March 1984 and raised in Ancaster, Ontario. His family owned Everest Toys, which he managed as of 2017. Career Canada In 2010, Putman began working for his family-owned Everest Toys. In October 2014, Putman acquired Sunrise Records and began opening new locations. In February 2017, it was announced that Putman had acquired the lease agreements from HMV Canada after it fell into receivership, converting these premises into Sunrise Records stores, massively increasing the number of Sunrise Records locations from 10 to 70. In October 2020, Putman founded tea shop T. Kettle, rebranding 45 former DavidsTea locations. As of April 2024, only two locations remained o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polo Park
Polo Park (corporately styled as CF Polo Park) is a shopping centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is situated on the former Polo Park Racetrack near the junction of Portage Avenue and St. James Street. Its grounds also includes a Scotiabank Theatre (formerly SilverCity), a TD Canada Trust, a Party City, and an Earls. The mall is currently anchored by Forever 21, Shoppers Drug Mart, Urban Planet, Sport Chek, ZARA, and EQ3. Hudson's Bay, Sears, Zellers and Safeway formerly anchored the mall. It is the largest mall of the 8 malls in the city, and is the 15th largest shopping centre in Canada, ranking between Guildford Town Centre and Laurier Québec. For census purposes, Polo Park is also the name given to the neighbourhood including and surrounding the shopping centre. History The Polo Park Mall opened on Thursday, 20 August 1959, and became one of the first enclosed shopping malls in Canada when a roof was added in 1963, the other being the Park Royal Shopping C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promenades Saint-Bruno
Promenades St-Bruno (corporately known as CF Promenades St-Bruno) is a two-level shopping mall located in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec, Canada. It has been the largest mall in the Montérégie ever since its opening in 1978 and was expanded in 1991. Part of its consumer base comes from cities as far as Saint-Hyacinthe and Sorel-Tracy. The anchor tenants are Simons, Winners, Sports Experts and . A public market named CF Marché des Promenades houses many independent shops. Outside of the shopping mall itself, there is a high presence of big-box stores, restaurants and category killers, some of which are actual tenants of Promenades Saint-Bruno. History A Steinberg's supermarket was there between 1978 and 1992, around . Steinberg's, through Ivanhoe, had owned 25% of the mall and also operated a Miracle Mart store side by side to the supermarket. The latter was renamed to M in August 1986. Both businesses closed in 1992. It was announced that Zellers would open by Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Square One Shopping Centre
Square One Shopping Centre, or simply Square One, is a Canadian shopping mall located in Mississauga, Ontario. It is the largest shopping centre in Ontario and the second largest shopping centre in Canada, after West Edmonton Mall. It has over of retail space, with more than 360 stores and services. On average, the mall serves over 24 million customers each year. It operates on most holidays (the exceptions being Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Christmas Day), making it the only shopping mall in the city and one of the few in the Greater Toronto Area that does so. Square One is located in Mississauga City Centre adjacent to the interchange of Highway 403 and Hurontario Street, near the Mississauga Civic Centre, the Mississauga Living Arts Centre, and the Mississauga Central Library; and has many condominium towers surrounding it. Located adjacent to the mall is the City Centre Transit Terminal; the central hub of MiWay; Mississauga's municipal transit system, Square One B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands (Torstar), Daily News Brands division. The newspaper was established in 1892 as the ''Evening Star'' and was later renamed the ''Toronto Daily Star'' in 1900, under Joseph E. Atkinson. Atkinson was a major influence in shaping the editorial stance of the paper, with the paper reflecting his principles until his death in 1948. His son-in-law, Harry C. Hindmarsh, shared those principles as the paper's longtime managing editor while also helping to build circulation with sensational stories, bold headlines and dramatic photos. The paper was renamed the ''Toronto Star'' in 1971 and introduced a Sunday edition in 1977. History The ''Star'' was created in 1892 by striking ''Toronto News'' printers and writers, led by future mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarence Hocke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A&A Records
A&A Records was a Canadian organization. History The company was founded at the end of World War II by Alice Kenner, her husband Mac, with the assistance of her brother, Aaron as A&A Bookstore after Alice and Aaron's first initials, at 351 Yonge Street in a building that had been purchased by Kenner and her husband, Mac. The family also founded the A&A Lunchroom in the same building. In the early 1950s, the store added a record section to sell LP records which were gaining in popularity among young people. Within a few years, record sales became the dominant portion of the store's business. In 1960, A&A Books & Records Company of Canada licensed several franchises across Canada and in 1971, the Kenners sold the business to Columbia Records, CBS Records.A historical corner In 1974, its operations consisted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam The Record Man
Sam the Record Man was a Canadian Record shop, record store chain that, at one time, was Canada's largest music recording retailer. In 1982, its ads proclaimed that it had "140 locations, coast to coast". Its iconic flagship store was located at 259 Yonge Street in 1959 and moved to 347 Yonge Street two years later, remaining there from 1961 until it closed in 2007. Located at Yonge just north of Dundas, the store became part of a strip of music stores, nightclubs and taverns featuring live performance that produced the "Toronto Sound" and was the centre of Toronto's music scene in the 1960s. The Yonge Street store was the best known store in the Sam the Record Man chain of 140 locations across Canada, two blocks away from the Eaton Centre and Dundas Square. Sam's became a popular attraction, drawing people into its selection of LP records, and later cassettes and compact discs. It flourished in the Downtown Toronto area, quickly gaining notoriety and outselling the competition. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yonge Street
Yonge Street ( ') is a major arterial route in the Canadian province of Ontario connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Great Lakes#Geography, Upper Great Lakes. Ontario's first colonial administrator, John Graves Simcoe, named the street for his friend Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet, Sir George Yonge, an expert on ancient Roman roads. Once the southernmost leg of provincial Ontario Highway 11, Highway 11, linking the provincial capital with northern Ontario, Yonge Street has been referred to as "Main Street Ontario". Until 1999, the ''Guinness World Records, Guinness Book of World Records'' repeated the popular misconception that Yonge Street was long, making it the longest street in the world; this was due to a conflation of Yonge Street with the rest of Ontario Highway 11, Ontario's Highway 11. The street (including the Bradford-to-Barrie extension) is only long. Due to provincial downgrading in the 1990s, no section of Yonge Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMV Canada
HMV is an international music and entertainment retailer, founded in 1921. The brand is owned by Hilco Capital and operated by Sunrise Records, except in Japan, where it is owned and operated by Lawson. The inaugural shop was opened on London's Oxford Street by the Gramophone Company, who had already established the His Master's Voice symbol on their sound equipment, and from 1909, as its own record label. In the 1960s, HMV became a chain across London, and expanded nationwide in the 1970s. It expanded internationally in the mid-1980s, and opened its 100th UK shop in 1997. In 1998, the retail operations were divested from EMI (successor to the Gramophone Company), to form what would become HMV Group plc. In 2007, HMV bought rival retailer, Fopp, as well divesting its Japanese business. In April 2013, HMV was rescued by Hilco Capital for an estimated £50 million after falling into administration. In February 2019, the Canadian retailer Sunrise Records rescued 100 of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces And Territories Of Canada
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Constitution of Canada, Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully Independence, independent country over the next century. Over its history, Canada's international borders have changed several times as it has added territories and provinces, making it the List of countries and dependencies by area, world's second-largest country by area. The major difference between a Canadian province and a territory is that provinces receive their power and authority from the ''Constitution Act, 1867'' (formerly called the ''British North America Acts, British North America Act, 1867''), whereas territories are federal territories whose governments a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Putman
Douglas Robert Putman (born 25 March 1984) is a billionaire Canadian businessman, predominately trading in the retail sector across North America and Europe. Through his firm, Putman Investments, he owns numerous retail chains involving music, entertainment, toys and home goods. Early life Douglas Putman was born on 25 March 1984 and raised in Ancaster, Ontario. His family owned Everest Toys, which he managed as of 2017. Career Canada In 2010, Putman began working for his family-owned Everest Toys. In October 2014, Putman acquired Sunrise Records and began opening new locations. In February 2017, it was announced that Putman had acquired the lease agreements from HMV Canada after it fell into receivership, converting these premises into Sunrise Records stores, massively increasing the number of Sunrise Records locations from 10 to 70. In October 2020, Putman founded tea shop T. Kettle, rebranding 45 former DavidsTea locations. As of April 2024, only two locations remained o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
