Mars Music
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Mars Music is a now defunct chain of music stores based in Florida. The company was founded in 1996 by former Office Depot president Mark Begelman, who created the store chain to combine his love of music with a new business venture.[1] MARS was initially an acronym for "Music And Recording Superstore".
He had acquired a small chain of existing music stores and started to follow through with an aggressive expansion plan. At its peak, Mars Music consisted of 50 stores and at one point was the sponsor for the Coral Sky Amphitheater (currently named Cruzan Amphitheatre after its present sponsor). [2]
In 2002 Mars Music filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, closed all of its stores and liquidated all of its assets.
