All Electricals articles – Page 163
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Sale of DSGi’s overseas operations moves a step closer
DSGi has drafted in adviser Deloitte to guide the sale of its Spanish, Italian and Eastern European businesses.
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AnalysisBlazing a trail in electronics
From its humble beginnings as a battery charging enterprise in Hull, Comet has flourished into a multichannel pioneer. Charlotte Hardie takes a look back on its 75th anniversary.
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Vodafone to ramp up retail presence
Vodafone is eyeing another 50 retail stores in the UK and hiring 500 staff to try and improve customer service.
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Olympic hopefuls
As the London 2012 Olympics nears, British retailers need to prepare themselves for a once in a lifetime opportunity. Lisa Berwin reports.
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Comet deputy managers face redundancy
Electricals retailer Comet is to make the post of store deputy manager redundant, in a move that is likely to mean more than 100 staff lose their jobs.
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Inflation hits 4.4 per cent
Inflation has hit 4.4 per cent, more than twice the Government’s 2 per cent target and up by the highest amount since the Consumer Prices Index began in 1997.
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UK retail sales slip further
UK like-for-like retail sales fell 0.9 per cent in July compared with the same month last year.
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DSGi to review Italian and Spanish stores
DSG International is understood to have instructed Citigroup to carry out a strategic review of its Italian and Spanish chains with a view to possibly selling the businesses.
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Carphone axes commission
Focus on service drives mobile phone retailer to radical pay restructure.
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DSGi to move Irish Dixons purely online as it steps up multichannel
DSGi is to rebrand its Dixons stores in Ireland under the Currys brand and focus the Dixons brand solely online.
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Carphone to invest in staff scheduling tool
Carphone Warehouse is to roll out an employee scheduling system to stores across seven European countries.
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Consumer confidence plummets again
Consumers are becoming increasingly nervous, with consumer spending growth expected to slow to just 0.5 per cent next year, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report.
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Best Buy reveals aggressive expansion plans
US electricals giant Best Buy plans to launch as many as 200 stores in the UK over the long term, according to the Financial Times .
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Consumer confidence nosedives
Consumer confidence has plummeted to an all-time low as concerns over the economy and finances take hold.
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Retailers rethink business travel
More than half of retailers say they have changed the way they consider business travel out of concern for the environment, a survey has revealed.
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Carphone seals Best Buy deal
Carphone Warehouse has completed its deal with US electricals giant Best Buy to launch a European retail business.
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Argos distribution workers to strike
Argos distribution staff are to go on strike over pay, after they rejected a renewed offer from the retailer.
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July sales volumes plummet
The Summer Sales have bought no respite for beleaguered retailers as they reported plummeting sales volumes in July.