It functions as convention center, though it also houses the main offices such as that of Fnac, a media and electronics retailer found throughout France, as well as a Hilton hotel.

Since 2001 the company has also annually presented an award, Le prix du roman Fnac, whose winners are chosen by an independent panel of booksellers and members.

Fnac also participates in campaigns against exclusion, racism and censorship.

In 1966, the Fnac store was opened to non-members and began to expand, opening its second store, also in Paris on the avenue de Wagram, near the Arc de Triomphe in 1969.

As of 2008, Fnac boasts 1. 8 million members to the programme with the loyalty card also serving as a credit card.

On 30 December 2008, the British newspaper, the Independent, speculated that Fnac could be tempted into the UK market by bidding for the 125 stores of the Zavvi Entertainment Group, also an entertainment retailer, which went into administration on 24 December 2008 due to problems with their supplier EUK.

Reporters Without Borders books are sold by the French leisure chains and supermarkets Fnac, Carrefour, Casino, Monoprix and Cora, the websites alapage. com, fnac. com and amazon. fr, as well as A2Presse and over 300 bookshops throughout France.

The subsidiary Fnac. com moved from Aubervilliers to Ivry during the same year.

Fnac publishes " Indétendances ," a compilation of ten artists bimonthly published by independent labels, which it set aside part of its listening kiosks in stores to promote their work.

In response to the megastore, as seen to the right, Fnac spent around $ 23 million to build its own megastore, at 32, 000 square metres, more than twice the size of the Virgin megastore, which became known as " the Cathedral ".

In 1991, the first Fnac store was opened in Berlin continuing with Petriat's plans, this was close to the original Virgin megastore, which opened there only a few months earlier.

In 1995, the Fnac store was closed in Berlin and the company instead continued its international expansion in Belgium, which were now becoming profitable.

In November 2007, Denis Olivennes, chief executive officer of Fnac, said, " We are moving from a strategy based on our position as a retailer of cultural and technological products to undertake a new, more global initiative, in which the product is only one aspect among others.

Victory Mixture was recorded for a small independent label, Orleans Records, which licensed it to Sky Ranch ( Fnac Music ) in France.

As of 2009, there are four Fnac stores in Switzerland, two in Geneva, the third in Lausanne and the fourth in Fribourg

Fnac operates a loyalty programme offering points that are awarded each time the card is presented at the till-point, for each euro spent.

Fnac ( originally Fédération Nationale d ’ Achats des Cadres, or National Shopping Federation for Managers ) is an international entertainment retail chain offering cultural and electronic products, founded by André Essel and Max Théret in 1954.

In February 2002 Fnac published with UPFI ( Union des Producteurs Phonographiques Français Indépendants ) " Manifeste pour la diversité musicale ", as a prelude to a policy of favorable treatment for independent labels and their artists.

The 1970s saw further expansion for Fnac, as the company began opening shops in the French provinces outside Paris and a third in the city itself that sold books, the newest addition to the product range.

The falling profits for Fnac was a similar situation to the parent company, GMF whose share count totalled more than 80 percent.

His next two albums, Willy DeVille Live ( 1993 ) and Big Easy Fantasy ( 1995 ), were recorded for Fnac Music, a French label.

The song is available on iTunes and French music site Fnac, but does not appear to have made the French charts.

In 2008, Fnac opened 10 new stores bringing their total locations, internationally, to 207 with 63 of those outside of France.

The story of the 2005 Spanish thriller Mar rojo, starring Maribel Verdú, begins with an armed robbery at a Fnac store in Barcelona.

* Interview and Mini-concert of Tunisiano-meeting with his public at the Fnac

* Frédéric Monera, L ' idée de République et la jurisprudence du Conseil constitutionnel — Paris: L. G. D. J., 2004 Fnac, LGDJ. fr

In 1987, the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens was established, as a collaboration between the académie Goncourt, the French Ministry of Education, and Fnac, a book, music, and movie retailer.

At one time Fnac. com, a subsidiary of Fnac, had its head office in Aubervilliers.

The prize was known as Alph-Art du public from 1989-2003, the Prix du public from 2004-2006, and since 2007 the Essentiel FNAC-SNCF, since it is sponsored by the retailer Fnac and railway authority SNCF.

Fnac has its head office in the commune.

Alain Chamfort at the " Festival Fnac Indétendances " in Paris, 22 July 2006.

Fnac is the largest retailer of its kind in France.

Fnac was founded to provide affordable products to the worker, who had increasing purchasing power.

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