All Electricals articles – Page 171
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DSGi’s airport Dixons stores to get makeover
DSGi has picked Leicester-based design consultancy Checkland Kindleysides to revamp its Dixons airport electricals stores.
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PPR sales rocket
Luxury retail group PPR, the owner of Gucci, has reported full-year profits ahead of forecasts and expects to achieve further growth in 2008.
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Best Buy cuts forecasts as US slowdown starts to bite
Best Buy has slashed sales and profit forecasts in what analysts believe the latest sign of the country’s retail slowdown.
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Phones 4U snaps up online rival
Mobile phone specialist Phones 4U has bought online retailer Dial-a-Phone for 9 million.
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DSGi staff rush to join share schemes
Thousands of DSGi staff are signing up to new three- and five-year share schemes, convinced that the electricals giant’s shares will increase from their present low base.
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Wal-Mart backs Sony in DVD battle
Wal-Mart has said it will no longer stock Toshiba’s HD-DVD discs and players in favour of Sony-backed rival Blu-ray.
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The web can’t work alone
All channels should be coherent points of contact working to the same overarching agenda
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DSGi raided in Intel probe
Electricals giant DSGi had its headquarters in Hemel Hempstead raided yesterday, as part of the European Union’s investigation of chipmaker Intel.
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OpinionDownwardly mobile
Commercial Street, in central Leeds, is typical of roads in many of the UK’s larger towns and cities. Walk its relatively modest length – it will take no more than about two minutes – and you pass no fewer than six mobile phone shops.
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DSGi kicks off strategic review
DSGi has hired a consulting team to carry out a strategic review of its operations.
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Kesa to embark on buy-back mission following sale of BUT
Electricals group Kesa is to mount a share buy-back programme to reward investors following its sale of French furniture chain BUT.
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Kesa share buy-back to follow BUT sale
Electricals group Kesa expects to complete the €550 million ( 409 million) sale of French furniture chain BUT next month and will return cash to investors via a share buy-back programme.
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DSGi to cut costs with standard IT platform
DSGi has kicked off a massive IT transformation programme, in an effort to deliver multimillion-pound cost savings and operating efficiencies.
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Emergency rate cut in US helps store groups outperform at last
The US Federal Reserve’s emergency rate cut – the biggest in 25 years – helped markets rise mid-week and gave store groups a lift.
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Electricals retailers to stop selling analogue TVs
Currys, Dixons and PC World will stop selling analogue televisions to focus on digital TV sets.
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Carphone rings up Christmas profit rise
Mobile phone specialist Carphone Warehouse’s tills rang out a merry Christmas, as December sales and profits climbed.
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Spending: innovation will keep it up
The way to keep consumers buying is to offer something that is different and inventive
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Share carnage is over the top
Wouldn’t life be easy running an energy business, or a rail operator? Your customers have little choice but to use your services and you can raise prices at a whim.
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Comet seasonal like-for-likes flat
Comet, the UK electricals chain owned by Anglo-French retailer Kesa, has posted like-for-like growth of 0.7 per cent for the period from November 1 to January 8.