The UK's Entertainment Retailers Association has announced the appointment of its new Council for the forthcoming year following their latest Annual General Meeting.
Independent record store owner Paul Quirk is returned to the role of Chairman, while Ben Drury, MD of London based independent download store 7Digital, was appointed Deputy Chairman. Graham Lambdon of EUK remains treasurer.
Speaking at the AGM, Quirk told his members: "Little more than a year ago we were known as the British Association Of Record Dealers and were wrongly characterised as being anti-technology. Today we are the Entertainment Retailers Association - reflecting the breadth of our members' activities - and we have a pure-play digital retailer as Deputy Chairman".
Drury, who was the first digital only retailer to sit on the ERA Council at all, commented on his new role: "In the last three years, digital retail has come from nowhere to be a major part of the entertainment retail landscape and it's great that ERA has recognised this. I am honoured and privileged to be asked to serve as Deputy Chairman and I look forward to doing my best to represent the interests of all entertainment retail regardless of format".