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`Tis the Season to ``Give Red'' as Virginmega.com Presents Holiday Guide 2000.


Entertainment Editors

LOS LOS Length of stay, see there  ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Nov. 27, 2000

Online Promotion Guarantees Easy Shopping this Holiday Season

by Offering Music Fans Gift-Buying Recommendations from

Today's Favorite Artists, Shopping By Category

and Virgin Exclusive Products.

To facilitate an easy and enjoyable online shopping experience this holiday season, Virgin Entertainment Group has created Holiday Guide 2000, an online gift-buying environment.

Promoted with the theme "Give Red," the holiday offering provides gift-giving recommendations from popular artists, special offers, shopping by category and Virgin exclusive products.

--  "Artists Recommends" Gift Suggestions -- Positioning
    virginmega.com as the musician's retailer, Holiday Guide 2000
    includes gift recommendations straight from today's favorite
    artists. Music fans can visit Holiday Guide 2000 and click
    "Artists Recommends" to find out what their favorite recording
    artist is listening to. Alice Cooper recommends The Who,
    "Substitute"; BT recommends Paul Oakenfold, "Transport"; Kid Rock
    recommends Run DMC, "Raising Hell"; Korn recommends Motley Crue,
    "Shout At the Devil"; Christina Aguilera recommends Etta James,
    "Chess Box" and more!

--  Virginmega.com Holiday Boutiques -- Searching for holiday presents
    is extremely easy this season with virginmega.com's Holiday
    Boutiques. Buyers can shop by price, celebrated holiday, lifestyle
    (The Diva, The Romantic, The Rebel and more) and category (DVD,
    Box Sets, Hip-Hop, Rock and more).

--  Spend $50/Get $100 promotion -- Customers spending $50 or more
    during the Holiday season will receive a $100 Virgin coupon book
    redeemable at virginmega.com and also in Virgin Megastores
    throughout the U.S. and Canada. Coupons can be redeemed for CDs,
    DVDs, books, and more.

--  Virgin Exclusive Gifts -- Virgin's expert product team has created
    special MegaMusic CD Box Sets exclusive to virginmega.com and the
    Virgin Megastores, featuring artists from a variety of music
    genres.


To promote the Holiday Guide 2000, Virgin Entertainment Group is running "Give Red"-inspired ads in national consumer magazines, including "Billboard," "Entertainment Weekly," "Wired" and "Variety Fair," local weeklies, college newspapers and on national radio. The company will also be advertising the campaign on virginmega.com, as well as in Virgin Megastores Virgin Megastores is an international chain of record shops, founded by Sir Richard Branson on London's Oxford Street in January or February 1971 (exact date uncertain).

In 1979 the company opened their first Megastore at the end of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road.
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About Virgin Entertainment Group

Virgin Entertainment Group is the world's leading multi-channel See multichannel.  music and entertainment retailer, providing consumers with a range of superior entertainment experiences through a family of integrated Virgin-branded businesses. The "category killer Category Killer

Large companies that put less efficient and highly specialized merchants out of business.

Category killers can attain this status by being cheaper, easier, bigger, or more popular than the competition.
" Virgin Megastores and Virgin Megastore Online at www.virginmega.com are integral parts of a strategy to provide entertainment customers what they want, how they want it, and when they want it.

For more information, or to check out the location of the nearest Virgin retail store, go to www.virginmega.com.
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