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Doug Putman. Retailer in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Belgium. 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 ...
Sunrise Records and Entertainment Ltd. 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 ...
Babies "R" Us Canada (1996–present) Rooms + Spaces. (2023–present) Website. www.toysrus.ca. Toys "R" Us Canada Ltd. is a Canadian chain of toy stores. It was founded by the Canadian franchise of U.S. toy retail chain Toys "R" Us; as of 2018, however, it operates independently and is based in Concord, Ontario. It was owned by its American ...
The main hope lay with HMV owner Doug Putman, who had been in talks to take over the business as a whole and keep about 200 shops as a “going concern”, but no agreement could be reached mainly ...
Following the closure of the chain's operations in Canada, Doug Putman, owner of Sunrise Records and Toys "R" Us Canada, acquired 21 former Bed Bath & Beyond locations, with plans to revive the chain in Canada as Rooms + Spaces, under the leadership of former Bed Bath & Beyond Canada general manager Greg Dyer. [88]
HMV (1986–2017) Toys "R" Us Canada (2024–present) Website. hmv.ca. HMV Canada is a music and entertainment retailer, operated by Sunrise Records. Since February 2024, it has been a concession in select Toys "R" Us locations. [1][2] Previously, from 1986 to 2017, HMV Canada was a chain of standalone retail stores, with its head office ...
Fairfax sold Toys R Us Canada to businessman Doug Putman in 2021. Fairfax Latin America Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fairfax. Based in Miami, Florida, it offers a wide range of general insurance products, including property, automobile and various specialty lines, through its subsidiaries located in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay.
Company founder Doug Putman stated that he planned to increase the chain's emphasis on vinyl phonograph sales as part of the turnaround plan: Sunrise's leverage of the vinyl revival had helped bolster the Canadian locations' performance after the shops' transitions from HMV, having sold at least 500,000 vinyl LPs in 2017 alone. Putman argued ...