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Dixons Travel was a technology retailer, with stores in four airports in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was a division of Currys Retail, a subsidiary of Currys plc. It was initially established as Dixons Tax Free in June 1994 to relaunch the Dixons brand in airport locations. The name changed to Dixons Travel in January 2009.
Dixons Retail plc was one of the largest consumer electronics retailers in Europe, which merged with Carphone Warehouse in 2014 to create Dixons Carphone, which was renamed Currys plc in 2021. In the United Kingdom, the company operated Currys , Currys Digital , PC World (with stores increasingly dual-branded 'Currys PC World'), Dixons Travel ...
According to the firm, the reason behind the closure of the stores was the online shift of customers and a lesser extent of phone upgrades. [16] Following the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, on 4 August 2020, Dixons Carphone announced 800 job cuts in response to increased costs. The company also announced plans to re-organise its operations in ...
In 1984, Currys was taken over by Dixons (another electrical products retail chain, now Currys plc) but maintained its separate brand identity. In April 2006, Dixons Stores Group announced that its Dixons shops, except in Ireland and in duty-free areas in airports, would be rebranded as Currys.digital [6] (later changed to Currys Digital). In ...
Barnes & Noble Continues its UK Expansion by Partnering with Dixons Retail to Offer Award-Winning NOOK ® Products Leading Specialist in Electrical Goods to Offer NOOK Reading Experience and ...
The Link was an internet based mobile phone and communications retailer in the United Kingdom.It was owned by Dixons Retail, the United Kingdom's largest consumer electronics retail group, and traded online through a dedicated retail website, which in addition to mobile phones also offered satellite navigation systems and broadband Internet services.
Before its collapse, the company was the UK's second biggest electrical retailer, with 6,000 staff and over 200 stores. [citation needed] In 2019, Misco Technologies Limited announced the acquisition of the Comet brand from administrators Deloitte, and has relaunched Comet as an online retailer of electrical goods. Whilst Misco is primarily ...
Carphone Warehouse is a mobile phone retailer based in London, United Kingdom. In August 2014 the company became a subsidiary of Currys plc (previously named "Dixons Carphone"), which was formed by the merger of its former parent Carphone Warehouse Group with Dixons Retail.