{"id":98418,"date":"2021-01-19T16:16:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98418"},"modified":"2021-01-19T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T16:16:03","slug":"hmv","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/hmv\/","title":{"rendered":"HMV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HMV is a physical and digital retailer with roots in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2019, the chain was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/uk-music-retailer-hmv-bought-by-sunrise-records-owner-doug-putman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquired in the UK<\/a> by the owner of Canada\u2019s Sunrise Records, Doug Putman.<\/p>\n<p>Putnum bought HMV from administrator KPMG after the retailer hit financial troubles in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British retailer was acquired by Sunrise Records&#8217; Doug Putman in 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2085,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98418","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}