Carphone Warehouse
This coverage focuses on Carphone Warehouse’s role and strategy within the UK mobile and consumer electronics retail market. Reporting covers store network changes, digital sales initiatives, partnerships with networks and manufacturers, financial updates, marketing activity, and leadership movements — providing insights for retail executives, category managers, and professionals overseeing technology retail and telecoms partnerships.
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May- 2021 -14 MayElectrical
Dixons Carphone rebrands to Currys
Dixons Carphone is set to drop its name as the group rebrands to Currys, with all stores across the business changing their name in the process. Across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Currys PC World, Carphone Warehouse and Team KnowHow will all become a single brand Currys by October 2021,…
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7 MayElectrical
Dixons Carphone commits £25m to colleague investment
Dixons Carphone has announced that it will invest £25m in skills, wellbeing, and reward programmes for its colleagues over the next two years. The investment will include almost 500,000 hours of learning in 2020, training nearly 1,000 staff members as mental health first aiders, and the opening of a new…
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6 MayPeople Moves
Boohoo welcomes Tim Morris as non-executive director
Boohoo has appointed Tim Morris as a non-executive director. Morris is also currently group general counsel and company secretary at TalkTalk Telecom Group Limited, which was on the main list of the London Stock Exchange until March 2021 and which he joined prior to its IPO in 2010. He held…
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5 MayPeople Moves
Notonthehighstreet names Ed Wagener as CFO
Notonthehighstreet has announced the appointment of Ed Wagener as the group’s new chief financial officer (CFO). Having most recently acted as CFO at Comparethemarket.com, Wagener provides the role with over 15 years’ experience in senior finance roles, including as financial director at Carphone Warehouse. Wagener will be tasked with supporting…
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Apr- 2021 -28 AprilElectrical
Dixons Carphone to scrap airport shopping business
Dixons Carphone is set to close its airport shopping business, just months after the UK government announced plans to remove airside tax-free shopping. In a trading update, the electrical retailer said that it did not expect passenger numbers to “recover sufficiently” to compensate for the removal of the tax. This…
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22 AprilEconomy
Carphone Warehouse closes all sites in Ireland
Carphone Warehouse has announced the closure of all its sites in Ireland with immediate effect. This includes its 69 standalone Carphone Warehouses and 12 in-store branches, employing 450 people, and the brand has stopped taking orders via its Irish website. However, this move is not set to affect Currys PC…
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Jan- 2021 -20 JanuaryElectrical
Dixons Carphone sees 121% online growth over Christmas
Dixons Carphone welcomed a 121% rise in its like-for-like online revenue during the peak Christmas season, attributed to a higher demand in e-commerce amid the pandemic. The company’s trading update for the 10 weeks ended 9 January 2021 revealed that Electricals like-for-like revenue increased by 11% for the period. The…
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Sep- 2020 -21 SeptemberComment
The window of opportunity for pop-ups
The Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent events of this year have exacerbated the ongoing decline of the British high street, with footfall falling by 81% in April and 48% in July, according to the British Retail Consortium. From John Lewis to Carphone Warehouse to House of Fraser, it seems that no…
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Mar- 2020 -17 MarchTechnology
Carphone Warehouse shutters stores, 2,900 redundancies expected
Dixons Carphone has announced that all UK standalone Carphone Warehouse stores will close their doors next month. The 531 stores, which represent 8% of Dixons Carphone’s total selling space, will shutter on 3 April 2020. The group will now focus on selling mobile devices and connectivity through its shop-in-shops in…
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Jun- 2019 -20 JuneElectrical
Dixons Carphone shares plunge amid full-year loss
Consumer electronics retailer Dixon Carphone saw profits plunge by up to 28% this morning, after posting full-year losses for the year to 27 April 2019. Shares in the retailer, which owns Carphone Warehouse and Currys PC World, have since recovered slightly to 11% down from opening. It comes after it…
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