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Apple nabs Dixons chief to head up retail stores

...the Currys and PC World brands in the UK, will be current Dixons group operations director Sebastian James. At the same time, Dixons Retail will... Read more

31 January, 2012

PC World, Currys pull Toshiba tablet days after launch

...Flash playback and other issues, Modaco forum members wrote on Sunday that Dixons Group staff had been told to keep the tablets on display, but... Read more

15 November, 2010

Dixons may ditch Freeserve for AOL

...relationship could soon come to an end, according to industry sources. The Dixons Group, which runs around 1,400 shops around Europe and includes retail... Read more

4 August, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

O2 snaffles The Link in shopping spree

A day after acquiring ISP Be, O2 has taken over retail phone chain The Link Read more

21 June, 2006 by David Meyer

Dixons Group websites out of service

Whoops. All of the Dixons Group's retail websites - dixons.co.uk, pcworld.co.uk and currys... Read more

12 January, 2009

Dixons group buys mail order specialist

...as a separate division of PC World, which is owned by the Dixons Group, and enable it to expand the store-based business services it... Read more

4 November, 1996 by Arif Mohamed

Five Years Ago: Dixons: PCs were almost a quarter of sales

UK electronics retail giant Dixons Group announced upbeat figures for the financial year ending 27 April 1996... Read more

12 July, 2001 by Martin Veitch

Healthy contempt for the high street chain

Sir Stanley Kalms, chairman of Dixons Group, was being shown around his newest offices: the PC World Business... Read more

8 March, 2001 by Guy Kewney

News Burst: Dixons unveils @jakarta

Dixons Group is steaming ahead with its move into the specialist retail market... Read more

23 November, 1998 by Jane Wakefield

PC World offers configure-your-own service

Dixons Group launched a "build-your-own" service for consumers that is designed... Read more

3 November, 1998 by Jane Wakefield

Byte says UK retail won't welcome newcomers

...today said that he doesn't expect any rival other than the Dixons group to lay down a serious challenge in the UK PC sector... Read more

9 October, 1996 by Martin Veitch

Dixons: PCs were almost a quarter of sales

UK electronics retail giant Dixons Group announced upbeat figures for the financial year ending 27 April 1996... Read more

12 July, 1996 by Martin Veitch

NHS to buy computers from Dixons

...and laptops from Dell, HP and, er, DSGi, a.k.a. the Dixons Group (PC World, Currys etc). Frankly, it's Friday afternoon and I... Read more

15 August, 2008

Asus Eee 900 gets limited UK launch

...moment because there's limited stock availability," said a spokesperson for the Dixons Group, which incorporates the Currys and PC World chains in the UK... Read more

1 May, 2008 by David Meyer
BT chief steps down

BT chief steps down

Ben Verwaayen will leave the company at the end of May, and is being replaced by BT's head of retail, Ian Livingston Read more

8 April, 2008 by Richard Thurston

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