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Website. www.dixonstravel.com. Dixons Travel was a technology retailer, with stores in four airports in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was a division of Currys Retail, a subsidiary of Currys plc. It was initially established as Dixons Tax Free in June 1994 to relaunch the Dixons brand in airport locations.
Dixons was founded as a photographic studio by Charles Kalms and Michael Mindel in the High Street in Southend under the name of Dixons Studios Limited, a company registered in October 1937 with share capital of £100. [3] The name Dixons, selected randomly from the telephone directory, was sufficiently short to fit above the small shop front. [3]
currys.co.uk. Currys (branded as Currys PC World between 2010 and 2021) is a British electrical retailer and aftercare service provider operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, specialising in white goods, consumer electronics, computers and mobile phones. Established as a bicycle retailer in 1927, Currys expanded the range of goods sold ...
28,000 (2024) [2] Website. currysplc.com. Currys plc is a British multinational electrical and telecommunications retailer and services company headquartered in London, [4] which was formed in 2014 by the merger of Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse Group. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
Currys Digital was an electrical retailer in the United Kingdom owned by Dixons Carphone, with its origins in a photographic shop opened by Charles Kalms. The chain was known as Dixons until 2006, when parent company DSG International announced they were moving away from the Dixons brand, except in Ireland and airports in the United Kingdom. [1]
Currys plc. Website. PC World website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2019-07-16) PC World was a British retail chain of mass market computer megastores. Established in November 1991, it became part of Dixons Retail in February 1993, and then part of Dixons Carphone, after the merger of Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse in August 2014.
Woolworth Holdings/Kingfisher (1984–2003) Kesa Electricals (2003–2011) OpCapita (2011–2012) Misco (2020–present) Website. www.comet.co.uk. Comet Electricals Limited, trading as Comet, is an online electrical retail chain based in the United Kingdom. The company sells consumer electronics and white goods, along with related products and ...
The two had contrasting visions — Shenton was convinced of the potential for one-hour processing on the high street, but Kalms wanted to focus on the core retail business. Kalms, who took over as president from his father, went on to buy Currys in 1984 and PTP was sold to its management in 1989. Shenton moved quickly to open his first Photo ...