There won't be any administration misery on the horizon for the Dixons group of tech shops, thanks to the electronics giant reporting a "strong performance" over the critical Christmas cash grab, aided by huge sales of tablets across its Currys and PC World stores. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jammin500:
"Well yer, they took one of their best known brands and made it an online only business about 6 years ago.. only late last year did they fully merge th..." More »
So, it looks like Comet's sad demise is to end with the different arms being chopped up and flogged off to the rest of the UK retail electronics industry. After stabilising the business, administrators Deloitte's are now looking at which profitable living chunks they can rip off the great sinking HMS Comet. Read More >>
Dixons, the once famous high street electronics retailer that was swallowed up into Currys and PCWorld in DSGi's efforts to save costs, still clung on in there as an online brand for a while. Now even its online presence ceases to be, leaving the Dixons high street name gathering dust just like Woolworths and Radio Rentals before it. Read More >>
The omnipresent Dixons group of high street shops will shortly begin selling Google's Nexus 7 tablet, giving the 7" tab an ever better chance of establishing itself as Android's #1 superstar piece of hardware. Read More >>
Featured comment by Oflife:
"There is both a business and ethical need for a competitor to the PC World/Curry's/Dixons cartel. Other than Comet, we have no high tech retailers sta..." More »
It looks like the classic British high street electronics chains might be going the way of the Dodo, or at least Dixons looks to be down sizing quite severely. Its head honcho is looking to cut stores down to just 30-40 to slash costs. Read More >>
Featured comment by ssg007:
"Does anyone know if Amazon have a cashback or discount system? I've been buying all sorts of stuff from them and haven't really looked to see if they ..." More »
The Knowhow Movies service, previously announced by the Currys and Dixons group, is now scheduled to launch on March 1st. And there should be some half-decent content on it too, thanks to licensing deals with Disney, Warner Bros. and Momentum Pictures. Read More >>
Featured comment by audaxero:
"While it's refreshing to see a DSG product not based around hard-selling extended warranties, I feel those prices are pretty unappealing...£12.99 for..." More »
The electronics retailing group DSGi, which runs Dixons, PC World and Currys, is apparently getting into the UK video streaming game with its new service called Knowhow Movies. Read More >>
Losses at the Dixons group have trebled over the last year, with the electrical seller losing £25.3m. It's positive about the future, though, claiming shop refits are turning the tide and gaining market share from the strugglingcompetition. [BBC] Read More >>
Featured comment by Benoit08:
"Did you try asking for the price match? Sales staff will match the price of any store within a 30mile radius as long as that shop has it in stock to t..." More »
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