His master's Voice

HMV (short for His master's Voice) was a British record label (owned by EMI) and is also the name of an international chain of plates-and booksellers. The record label has been around since the 1980s are no longer active, but the chain stores still exist. ==Figurative Mark[ Edit] == HMV is known for its remarkable image watermark: a dog, Nipper called, that his ears when a speaker of an old-fashioned Gramophone loves. According to tradition, he listened to the voice of his master at the time-"His master's voice", so. The logo is designed in the late 19th century by the British artist Francis Barraud. It was purchased in 1899 by The Gramophone Company in Great Britain, the predecessor of the current EMI, but it was only ten years later used on the record labels of the record company. ==His master's Voice[ Edit] == Detail of HMV-plateThe logo of the little dog and Gramophone became so popular, that the plates of The Gramophone Company soon were released under the name of His master's Voice, although the official name of the company Gramophone Company remained.

His master's Voice brought in the first decades of the 20th century many plates out, first on 78 rpm, later on wax roller-plates and soon grew into one of the largest record companies in the world. Owner The Gramophone Company expanded its activities in the 1920s out of the retail. For example, in 1921 in London the first HMV shop opened, where plates, sheet music, instruments and players were sold.

Meantime, The Gramophone Company in running the facilities of the American Victor Company, which in turn came again in 1929 by RCA in the us. That company was in the us responsible for the distribution of HMV-plates. In Great Britain became HMV ownership of the newly formed EMI, in which The Gramophone Company was incorporated.

HMV took a great escape in the 1950s, thanks in part to American artists who were released on the HMV label in Europe. Examples of these were extremely successful names as Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Danny Williams and Perez Prado. In the Netherlands was represented by Bovema.

His master's Voice found its end as pop label in 1967, when EMI decided to owner of His master's Voice to make a label for classical music. Mid 80 's, the name was changed to EMI Classics, to the increasing recognition of the record label.

In the late 1980s, HMV short time back for the releases of the British singer Morrissey. ==Shops[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == HMV Newcastle store<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The store Division of HMV, meanwhile, grew steadily. In the early 1980s claimed the HMV shop in London's Oxford Street the largest record store in the world, with three floors.This was a forerunner of the Megastores that in the ' 80s and ' 90s were very popular in Europe and the US; not only from HMV, but also by Virgin and Tower Records. The HMV Group, the owners of the shops, was independent of EMI in 1998. Not long after that bought it a majority stake in the British also chains Waterstone's and Dillons.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In recent years, HMV Group hard hit by the slowdown in the record industry. Dozens of mega stores are now closed, but HMV in Ireland and Great Britain still has about 250 stores. The Megastore in Oxford Street in London is considered the flagship of the chain.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The HMV stores in Britain and Ireland use the familiar logo with Nipper the dog, but in Canada and the us, this is not the case. In those countries, the rights of the logo still owned by RCA.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In december 2011, HMV Group announced that it went bad with the store Division. In the first half of the financial year 2011/2012 (from april to October) had the shops 36 million pound loss suffered, with the total indebtedness of the company amounted to 136 million pounds.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">To rescue the company, HMV has announced the HMV Live Division to sell. This includes some concert halls in Britain and the organisation of a number of pop festivals. Earlier in 2011 were already books chain Waterstone's and the Canadian branch of the HMV shops sold. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  Beginning 2013 showed the chain to be in such bad weather, that it could no longer meet its financial obligations almost. Administrators from Deloitte were enabled on 15 January 2013 to look for a buyer for the ailing company. The stores remained (provisional) still open.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  on January 22, 2013, it was announced that the debts of HMV (risen to 176 million pounds) were acquired by Hilco, the investment company with which that operator got hold of HMV.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In August 2013 Hilco made known that the "flagship store" by HMV in Oxford Street in London from October 2013 will be located within the building again in 1921 the very first HMV store was opened (Oxford Street number 363). HMV was up to in the 80 's in that building, after which it moved to a building a few hundred meters away