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RadioShack (formerly written as Radio Shack) is an American electronics retailer, which was established in 1921 as an amateur radio mail-order business. Its original parent company, Radio Shack Corporation, was purchased by Tandy Corporation in 1962, shifting its focus from radio equipment to hobbyist electronic components.
The newly streamlined and focused Tandy Corporation posted its best results in years in 1999--net income of $297.9 million on sales of $4.13 billion. Tandy Corporation changed its name to RadioShack Corporation in May 2000, the culminating move in its successful refocusing on its RadioShack core.
Apr 27, 2005 · Last month, a U.S. district court judge ordered that more than 900 stores in Canada must stop using the RadioShack brand name in any of their signs, packaging, products or advertising by June 30.
Jan 19, 2024 · The Source stores, formerly known as Radio Shack, are being renamed Best Buy Express. The partnership between BCE's Bell Canada and Best Buy Canada will rebrand 165 of the nearly 300 electronics ...
The Source began as the Canadian branch of Radio Shack (later "RadioShack"). The first Radio Shack store in Canada was opened on April 20, 1970, in Rexdale , Ontario. The chain was originally owned by Radio Shack's American parent company Tandy Corporation , but was spun off in June 1986, along with the rest of Tandy's international operations, as InterTAN .
Aug 3, 2009 · RadioShack is getting a marketing makeover. Starting August 6, the venerable electronics retailer will change its name to “The Shack,” a rebranding move designed to shed the last-century ...
Radio Shack was essentially bankrupt, but Charles Tandy saw the potential of Radio Shack and retail consumer electronics when hardly anyone else did and bought the company for $300,000. During the 1960s and 1970s, Radio Shack marketed its free battery card; a wallet-sized cardboard card, free, which entitled the bearer to free batteries when presented at one of their stores.
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