Dolphin Music
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History
Robert Williams (11 September 1979 — 2 March 2009) and Jason Tavaria, while still at Liverpool University, used their credit cards & student loans to set up a company that would sell musical equipment by mail order and over the internet.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
By 2008 the business had 80 staff and £16m in revenues.Template:Citation needed In 2009 Robert Williams Co-Founder died whilst snowboarding in Switzerland whilst with Co-Founder Jason Tavaria.<ref name="telegraph" /> In 2011 Dolphin Music was purchased by S&T Audio Ltd, who also own Play Music Today (PMT) retail stores and the PMTonline.co.uk webstore.<ref name="MIpro">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In June 2025, S&T Audio Ltd entered administration, and its 11 UK stores and online operations were shut down. Following the administration, Gear4music acquired certain assets from the administrators, including stock, websites, trademarks, and commercial data, but explicitly did not take on PMT’s ongoing trading business or liabilities, and has no plans to resume trading under the PMT name.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Legacy
A memorial fund has been established<ref>Rob Williams Tribute » Charity Fund & Address Template:Webarchive</ref> with the Prince's Trust with the aim of helping inspire others follow Rob's business success following a fatal accident<ref name="telegraph">British entrepreneur Rob Williams dies on skiing holiday in tragedy played out on Twitter</ref> while on holiday – with associates including Michelle Dewberry – snowboarding at Verbier. On 2 March 2009, he slipped 60 ft (20 metres) during treacherous skiing conditions. Jason was found alive via GPS tracking, but Rob was dead by 11pm. The news broke of the plight of the missing adventurers on the Swiss Alps via mobile telephone updates to microblog networking service Twitter. <ref>Twitter tributes to British snowboarder</ref> The celebration of Mr Williams's life was marked by his funeral and a reception at St Albans Cathedral and Sopwell House respectively on 19 March.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>