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Online retailer TheHut.com has bought the web site rights for Zavvi following the high street music chain’s collapse in December.

Administrator Ernst & Young sold the rights to TheHut.com, who intends to sell a broader range of products than the previous in-store offering, including sportswear, fashion, perfume and lingerie, as well as the traditional Zavvi-branded entertainment products.
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The acquisition created 100 new jobs based at the online retailer’s offices in Northwich, Cheshire.

“Zavvi is a major player in entertainment retail, both in the UK and Ireland. Our aim is to capitalise on this well-recognised high street brand and transform the business into a leading-class online retailer, not only in entertainment, but also across lifestyle products,” said The Hut Group chief executive Matthew Moulding.

“The new discounted price points, supported by significant future investment in customer-driven functionality improvements, should enable us to create an exciting online retailer.”

Something strange happened today. First a well known Irish Recruitment agency called on the phone this morning and asks if we can post their jobs via our Multiple Jobs Posting service to the CareerBuilder job site. I found it strange because CareerBuilder is an old site and it used to be US oriented so far. So I checked and guess what? There is a CareerBuilder.ie Irish site.

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I looked around and it has about 15 clients advertising jobs. Not overtly impressive, but hey!? It’s a start. CareerBuilder is in Ireland!

As the day goes by, I was checking some recruitment sites of the Irish recruitment agencies to get some inspiration, and guess what? Cpl has a new web site. I actually liked the old one better. But this one has all the right things that a recruitment site should have today: Video, blogs, and this giant footer made of gazillion links. I watched the video. And noticed that the video on the CPL web site is an advertisement for CareerBuilder!