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Currys plc is a British multinational electrical and telecommunications retailer and services company headquartered in London, [4] which was formed in 2014 by the merger of Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse Group.
Currys went public in 1927 when his four sons merged The Louth Bicycle Company, and the loose confederation of shops which the sons had run since their father's retirement in 1909, with the Nottingham-based Campion Cycle Company. [2] An old sign for a Currys store in Cowley Road, Oxford, possibly dating from 1934.
In the United Kingdom, the company operated Currys, Currys Digital, PC World (with stores increasingly dual-branded 'Currys PC World'), Dixons Travel and its service brand Knowhow. At the time of the merger in 2014, Dixons Retail had 530 outlets in the United Kingdom and Ireland and 322 in Northern Europe.
The London-listed company reported 5% growth in sales in the UK and Ireland during the 17 weeks to August 24 amid an “improving consumer environment”. Currys, which also sells televisions ...
PC World's website was merged into Currys in July 2019, resulting in the end of PC World as the separate retailer. Dixons Carphone announced they will rebrand as Currys plc in September 2021, dropping the PC World from the Currys name. The change also replaced Team Knowhow and Carphone Warehouse brands within the existing Currys brand. This ...
In March 2020, the company announced that they would be closing all 531 stand-alone UK stores the following month, with sales operations continuing within co-located "shops within shops" at Currys PC World stores and through the website. [28] [3] It was said that this measure was a result of the changing mobile market. [3]
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The company would later deal in many consumer electronics, with nationwide outlets in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In 1984, Dixons purchased rival Currys, though kept separate brand identities between the two stores. [1] Dixons typically encompassed shopping centres and town centres, whereas Currys were larger stores in out-of-town retail parks.