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Don Van Cleave on the Founding of CIMS and Junketboy

Don VanCleave
Don Van Cleave is president of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores, a group of sixty prominent independent record stores located across the United States that have banded together to strengthen their market share at retail. Van Cleave also runs Junketboy, a company that specializes in securing exclusive distribution deals for independent artists.
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Don Van Cleave, president of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS), talks about his decision to leave his career as an industrial engineer to open a CD-only store in the 1980s, and about the formation of CIMS in 1995. He also discusses his objectives for his distribution company, Junketboy.



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November 2007
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