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Miranda – Originally the name of a Japanese company, Dixons acquired the brand in 1981, and used it on cameras and photographic kit. [31] As of 2011, Dixons still owned rights to the name, but no longer used it and planned to sell it off. [31] Saisho – Introduced in 1982. [32] Dixons announced its intention to sell the brand off in May 2011 ...
Dixons Travel was a technology retailer, with stores in four airports in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was a division of Currys Retail, a subsidiary of Currys plc. It was initially established as Dixons Tax Free in June 1994 to relaunch the Dixons brand in airport locations. The name changed to Dixons Travel in January 2009.
- Whatever Happened to Dixons
- The Beginning
- The Successful Sixties and Seventies
- From Southend to The States
- Currys and PC World
- Retail to E-Tail and Beyond
Gone – well, sort of. Over the years, the composition of the British high street has changed immeasurably. At one point, you would find a Dixons opposite a HMV and a Gamestation next to a Woolworths. Sadly, times changed as the internet and out of town shopping centres brought about the death of a number of traditional retailers. But given Dixons’ ...
Dixons was founded in 1937, by the duo of Charles Kalms and Michael Mindel. The pair had met in London, where Kalms had previously been selling advertising space on the London Underground. Mindel was running a small but relatively successful photographic studio in Oxford Street and was keen to expand. After some brief discussions, the two joined fo...
Success was followed by expansion. Between 1962 and 1964, the Dixons acquired Ascotts and Bennetts, two of its major competitors. This buying spree resulted in the number of Dixon stores to rise from sixteen to fifty-eight in two short years. Thanks to the swinging sixties and a reduction in working hours, Britain’s leisure activities once again al...
The group continued to engulf its competitors, absorbing Currys in 1984 and a number of smaller stores and business such as Orbit, Greens, and Bridgers. With their portfolio of stores exceeding 600 at this point and their stock encompassing everything from cameras to refrigerators, Dixons were clearly Great Britain’s number one electrical retailer....
As noted, Dixons purchased Currys in 1984. The takeover was a protracted one, but once completed the management structure decided that it would be advantageous to keep the two rivals brands operational. As strange as this sounds today, at the time it did make sense: Dixons was popular with customers looking to purchase new technologies, audio and v...
In 2006, the ever decreasing gaps between the three competing companies and the growing market share of internet retailers proved too much. “This high street has become an increasingly challenging environment and the cost of maintaining a presence there has increased,” noted John Clare, the chief executive of Dixons’ parent company. And so the deci...
currysplc.com. 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. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
May 13, 2021 · The Carphone Warehouse and Dixons brand names are set to be consigned to history after Dixons Carphone, the parent of both, announced it would rename itself Currys. Chief executive Alex Baldock ...
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Oct 5, 2021 · THE high street brand, Carphone Warehouse will no longer exist from today - with all remaining shops disappearing for good. ... Ed Connolly, Chief Commercial Officer at what was known as Dixons ...
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May 13, 2021 · The Dixon name has not been on the high street since 2006, when the firm announced all of its shops in Britain would be rebranded as Currys.digital. The Dixons.co.uk website was phased out in 2012 ...
