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Dixons feasts on corpse of Comet, chortles over 'slab bonanza

Pixmania and southern EU remain sore boils on bottom line

Dixons Retail flogs Equanet to serial swallower Kelway

IT supplier downs mid-market & public sector firm after one-year fast

Dixons and Microsoft haggling over Surface RT Ts&Cs

Distie deal likely but not before end of 2012 - sources

Dixons steps over Comet's bloodied body to nab bonus Xmas sales

Four per cent growth? Yoink!
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Dixons returns to profit in UK, rubs hands as Comet circles drain

Dixons Retail says it's positioned to capitalise on Comet's collapse as the firm returned to profit in the UK for the first time in five years. Group challenges still remain, however, with gadget souk PIXmania still performing "poorly" and those pesky penniless peeps in Southern Europe dragging numbers down. Pre-tax losses for …
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PC World, Currys, Dixons websites all go titsup

The websites of Dixons Retail Group electronics stores have gone down today - knocking over Currys, PC World and Dixons.co.uk. The sites have been offline since breakfast, but there's been some confusion about the cause of the outage. Initially visitors to the Currys' site had a "503 Unavailable Error" page pop up, then a page …

Dixons bigwig dispatched to salvage gadget souk PIXmania

Updated Retail chain coughs up €10m for larger stake in loss-making arm

Dixons: We had a good summer, though southern Europe was a drag

Unleashes corrective action for Europe's bottom bit and web shop PIXmania
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Dixons Retail: A mirror held up to Europe

Dixons Retail's top and bottom lines slipped in fiscal 2012 ended 28 April, according to preliminary results. Group pre-tax profits fell to £70.8m, down from £85.3m in the previous financial year and sales dipped three per cent to £8.05bn, compared to £8.3bn in fiscal 2011. The total loss before tax narrowed to £118.8m from £ …
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Xmas actually accelerates Dixons sales drop

Dixons are facing a grim new year as it was revealed that the Christmas season actually accelerated their decline in sales. Takings across Dixons stores and the Currys and PC World outlets run by the company fell by 5 per cent compared to the quarter before, reveal figures published today. That fall follows a drop of 3 per cent …

Horde of customers storms Dixons – too late to save 2012 sales

5% Q4 surge after months-long struggle to shift product

Dixons keeps wolves from the revolving credit facility door

Can bricks-and-mortar houses resist lupine halitosis forever?

Best Buy fires parting shot at Dixons with closing down sale

If we're going down, you're coming with us

Apple lures Dixons boss Browett to run global retail biz

Takes Cook's dollar to expand store empire

Dixons to flog off old 'brands' Miranda and Saisho

Found them down the back of the sofa

Dixons to set up concession in Harrods

Ladies who lunch, oil sheikhs ... they all need batteries

Rampaging Brit looters cost Dixons £4m

Chain's losses narrow but widen at group level

Dixons predicts Olympics will boost sales

Beach volleyball in 3D ought to shift some tellies
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Dixons done for dumping customer info in skip

Dixons has had its wrist slapped for leaving customer details in a skip outside one of its PC World stores. To be fair to the world's favourite tech retailer there were only eight completed credit agreements found, but they did contain customers' personal and financial data. The store concerned was in Northamptonshire, and the …

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Server boss comes to London, become hostage to fortune
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Tim Ayling

Er, what does that mean? Anything you want it to
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Eddie Pacey

Get your money up front if you want money up front

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