Direct Wine Sales to Texas Approved

| John Fischer

Lone Star state residents can break out the bubbly: A U.S. district judge from the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, approved a preliminary injunction yesterday that will allow both in-state and out-of-state wine retailers to ship wine to customers in Texas.

Guitar Center Buys Hermes Trading Co.

| MCM staff

Westlake Village, CA-based retailer Guitar Center, the parent of the Medford, OR-based Musician’s Friend catalog, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the existing inventory and equipment of Pharr, TX-based musical instruments distributor/retailer Hermes Trading Co.