2007 founder les whitfield headquarters united kingdom number of locations 4 stores area served current locations belfast bromley cardiff leamington spa former locations warrington weston super mare bristol blackburn key people les whitfield products music dvds owner indulge retail ltd. website www.wearehead.com head records is an entertainment retailer in the united kingdom . the company is owned by indulge retail ltd which was previously run by one of the partners of zavvi and subsequently head entertainment . head records was established in 2007 and as of 2015 has 6 stores . history edit in 2007 prior to the formation of head entertainment head records opened its first store in a retail space vacated following the closure of the fopp store in leamington spa . 1 head records subsequently opened three further stores . 2 3 the bristol broadmead zavvi which had been taken up by head entertainment in 2009 closed on 27 march 2010 citation needed but was reopened a week later by head records under the name head cd dvd books citation needed . the store contains some new stock alongside ex zavvi stock ; the product range includes clothing and an selection of books alongside cds and dvds . the former zavvi store in bromley was taken up by head records as head cd & dvd some months after head entertainment had taken on its tranche of ex zavvi store sites . the bromley store subsequently moved from the zavvi site into another store location a former internacionale and previously gamley s store with the former zavvi site being taken up by new look . as with the bristol store the bromley head site carries a selection of new release and catalogue products . in december 2010 an new head records store opened in belfast s victoria square becoming the fourth store in the chain . on may 10 2011 weston mercury reported that head was to open a new store in weston super mare s sovereign shopping centre ; this occupied a former adams childrenswear unit which had been used by hmv as a temporary store over christmas 2010 . 4 on may 14 2011 head officially opened . nick cooke centre manager of the sovereign shopping centre said we are delighted that head have chosen to open in weston which for too long has missed a dedicated music retailer . the wsm head store had closed by early 2015 and in april 2015 the unit head had occupied was taken up by a new deichmann store . 5 on january 15 2012 head records store closed in belfast s victoria square . on july 14 2012 the belfast store reopened for business at an new location on ann street . it has since relocated again to castlecourt shopping centre . in september 2013 head took up a presence in warrington hometown of head founder les whitfield when it began operating from premises in the golden square shopping centre which had been vacated earlier that year by the closure of the town s hmv store . warrington s head store closed in summer 2015 after hmv signed a deal to return to the same unit in golden square . 6 the closure of the warrington store reduced head s estate to five stores . in october 2014 blackburn became the site of the sixth head records store when the company opened a new store in the former hmv unit in the town . 7 in january 2016 however the store closed down after the temporary lease expired . consequently head shrunk to five stores once again . 8 in march 2016 it was announced the entertainer would take presence in the former unit . 9 in 2015 the first head store in wales opened with the firm s opening of at grand arcade in the st. david s shopping development in cardiff . 10 on 22 december 2015 posters in the windows of the bristol store revealed that the store would close for good on the 8th january 2016 as well as a closing down sale . the closure of the bristol store meant the chain shrunk to 4 stores . in february 2016 the leamington spa store relocated to an new shop unit opposite the shop unit they were currently in . references edit the music is back independent store set to take over from fopp . leamington courier . 12 october 2007 . retrieved 18 february 2009 . report on record store day at four head records stores music news.com les whitfied at linkedin weston mercury weston mercury apr 2015 warrington guardian july 2015 http www.blackburnbid.co.uk 4098 new store opening will hit right notes http www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk news 14150215 . jobs face axe as blackburn town centre record store set to close doors http www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk news 14336561 . new life for toys in blackburn the entertainer store set to open in town centre mall head at st. david s external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title head records & oldid 726223008 categories retail companies of the united kingdommusic retailers of the united kingdomretail companies established in 2007hidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 20 june 2016 at 20 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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