Ribbon cut on Dixons Carphone merger by chief Seb James August 8, 2014 Dixons Carphone chief exec Seb James and his deputy Andrew Harrison cut the ribbon on their £3.8bn mega-merger yesterday, visiting most of the seven newly branded stores with a pair of scissors. “It was quite an early start, we’ve been running around all day trying to make it to all of the stores,” James told [...]
Dixons Carphone share price falls on first day of trading after £3.6bn merger August 8, 2014 Shares in Dixons Carphone rose yesterday morning only to close down 1.8 per cent in their first formal day of trading since Carphone Warehouse and Dixons Retail merged to create a £3.6bn consumer electronics empire. The FTSE 250 company aims to exploit the ever-growing presence of consumer electronics in people’s lives and the so-called [...]
Why’s it called Dixons Carphone? Nobody’s used a car phone in years May 15, 2014 High street staples Carphone Warehouse and Dixons Retail have confirmed today that they’ll be merging to form a new company called Dixons Carphone. But why are they hanging on to the ‘Carphone' bit when no-one has one anymore? The first car phone was used in St Louis on 17 June 1946. It has three channels [...]