Alan James Giles OBE is a British businessman and currently a non-executive director of the

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. He is also a non-executive director of Rentokil Initial plc and a member of OFT's Audit and Risk Remuneration committees.

Career

From March 1999 until September 2006 he was

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of HMV Group, owner of

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HMV Sunrise Records and Entertainment, trading as HMV (for His Master's Voice), is a British music and entertainment retailer, currently operating exclusively in the United Kingdom. The first HMV-branded store was opened by the Gramophone Company ...

, which he joined in 1998. HMV Group also owned the UK bookshop chain

Waterstones Waterstones, formerly Waterstone's, is a British book retailer that operates 311 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and also other nearby countries. As of February 2014, it employs around 3,500 staff in the UK and Europe. An average-sized Wa ...

, which bought another book chain Ottakars in 2006. HMV and Waterstones suffered a decline in sales in the financial year 2005–2006. Giles stated that the internet, including music downloading, and supermarket competition, contributed towards HMV's decline in sales. After leaving HMV, he became chairman of

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, the active lifestyle retailer.

References

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