London, Tuesday 24th January 2012 - Ticketscript, European market leader in online, mobile and social ticketing solutions and HMV Group, the UK’s leading specialist retailer of filmed entertainment, games, music and portable digital technology products, have announced today that they have formed a partnership to service the UK and Ireland events market.
Ticketscript will now sell tickets through HMV’s 250 plus retail stores in the UK and Ireland, providing an additional sales network to ticketscript’s current online and mobile sales channels. Tickets sold through HMV’s retail stores will have a unique barcode which can be scanned by ticketscript’s entrance management system.
“Our partnership with HMV provides our UK and Ireland customers with retail outlets to sell tickets, complementing their existing website, mobile and Facebook ticketshops. With the addition of HMV’s retail stores our customers now have access to a sales network of over 1,100 physical sales outlets throughout Europe,” said Frans Jonker, Chief Executive Officer ticketscript .
“As a result of our partnership with ticketscript, HMV customers will now have access to a plethora of new events located throughout the UK, complimenting our already existing ticket offer,” say Jon Lee, Ticket Manager hmvtickets. “This is an exciting opportunity that will benefit our customers as well as ticketscript's clients, who will now be able to take advantage from increased event profile and exposure via our 250+ store portfolio, as well as the excellent high street promotion and marketing opportunities we are able to provide.”
