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Radio Rentals is a household appliance, technology and furniture rental service. Today, Radio Rentals and RR Rentlo Reinvented have more than 90 stores Australia wide and more than 500 employees. The Australian stores continued to trade under the Thorn Group, with James Marshall as the current CEO and managing director, appointed in 2014. [ 3 ]
Radiocentre offers three areas of expertise each with different functions: policy, advertising (formerly the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), and clearance (formerly the Radio Advertising Clearance Centre. The RAB was founded in 1992. [1] It is the marketing body for radio, funded entirely by the UK commercial radio industry.
In 1989 the business was sold to Radio Rentals, which had merged with Thorn Electrical Industries the previous year. Thorn EMI (as Thorn Electrical Industries had become) transferred all of Rumbelows’ rental accounts to its Radio Rentals chain, bolstering its market position. With its core business removed, Rumbelows sought a new identity as ...
In 1987, Thorn EMI acquired Rent-A-Center in the United States for $594 million which had 469 stores on acquisition. [14] [15] In 1989, Rumbelows was acquired by Radio Rentals and all Rumbelows' rental accounts were transferred to Radio Rentals, bolstering its market position. With its core business removed, Rumbelows sought a new identity as a ...
In September 1974, the group sold its television rental business to Spectra Rentals for £1.73 million, in an effort to reduce its overall debt. [ 13 ] In 1975, Comet expanded its range of goods by purchasing the share capital of Gas Trend , a discount retailer of gas appliances, for £15,000. [ 14 ]
Boxclever (styled as “boxclever”) is a British electronic and domestic appliance rental chain that was founded in 2000 by the merger of Radio Rentals and Granada Rentals. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The company originally operated through high street stores but later moved to an online-only service.
EMI and Radio Rentals 1980 [5] Swindon only. Closed as staffed operation in 1980, continued volunteer run til present day — — — Channel 40 Milton Keynes Development Corporation, Post Office Telecommunications: 1979 Milton Keynes only. Replaced with Cable Radio Milton Keynes. [6] — — — Avon TV 1981 Bristol only. [1] — — — T.E.N.
Caversham Finance Limited, trading as BrightHouse, was the largest rent-to-own company in the United Kingdom, with 240 stores. [3] It was a national chain that provided home electronics, domestic appliances, household furniture, other related products on a hire purchase agreements. Cash loans were offered towards the end of the company's existence.