Trans World Entertainment Corporation - TWMC- Profile

Trans World Entertainment Corporation. The Group's principal activity is to operate a chain of retail entertainment stores of compact discs, prerecorded audiocassette, prerecorded videocassettes, digital versatile discs and related accessories. It offers a broad selection of music and video titles at competitive prices in convenient and attractive stores. It operates four distinct store concepts, FYE (For Your Entertainment) stores, super FYE stores, FYE Movie stores and FYE Games store. The Group operates four retail Web sites including, www.fye.com, www.coconuts.com, www.wherehouse.com, and www.secondspin.com, which offer substantially the same complement of products as offered in its stores. As on 03-Aug-2006, the Group operates over 1,100 retail stores in the United States, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. On March 27, 2006, it acquired the Musicland Holding Corp. Operates a chain of retail entertainment stores and e-commerce sites in the United States