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Carphone Warehouse is a mobile phone retailer based in London, United Kingdom. ... Following the closure of all stand-alone UK stores in April 2020, ...
On 22 September 2014, EE reached an agreement with Phones 4u's administrators to take over and rebrand 58 stores, while Dixons Carphone revealed that they would transfer 800 employees to its Currys and PC World stores. [11] On 23 September 2014, administrators PwC announced that close to 1,700 jobs would be lost. [12]
On 28 April 2021, Dixons Carphone announced the closure of the Dixons Travel business, [10] due to the removal of tax-free shopping in UK airports from December 2020, and lower passenger numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company stated that the Dixons Travel business had historically contributed annual profits of over £20 million to ...
On 3 April 2020, the company permanently closed 531 stand-alone Carphone Warehouse stores that were solely focused on telephone devices. Subsequently, 3,000 job positions related to the affected stores were cut. According to the firm, the reason behind the closure of the stores was the online shift of customers and a lesser extent of phone ...
In 2012 Brighthouse, Home Bargains, JD Sports and Sports Direct moved to larger units and Carphone Warehouse and Gamestation closed. In 2014 Marks & Spencer announced they will be closing their store in Middleton Grange to open a Simply Food store in Anchor Retail Park at Hartlepool Marina.
Best Buy Europe Distributions Ltd. was a retail joint venture owned by the United States–based electronics retailer Best Buy Inc and United Kingdom–based mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse. The company was formed by Best Buy's purchase of 50% of The Carphone Warehouse's retail division in May 2008. [1]
PC World was a British retail chain of mass market computer megastores.Established in November 1991, it became part of Dixons Retail in February 1993, and then part of Dixons Carphone, after the merger of Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse in August 2014.
Carphone Warehouse agreed to purchase the UK subsidiary of Tiscali in May 2009 for £236 million. [17] The purchase was approved by the European Union Competition Commission in June 2009, [18] and the sale was completed on 6 July 2009. [19] Carphone Warehouse confirmed the business would merge into TalkTalk ahead of the planned demerger. [20]