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Dixons Retail flogs Equanet to serial swallower Kelway

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

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

Pixmania and southern EU remain sore boils on bottom line

Dixons Retail: A mirror held up to Europe

Southern pain, northern gain, Pixmania ruining it for everyone

Dixons and Microsoft haggling over Surface RT Ts&Cs

Distie deal likely but not before end of 2012 - sources
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Dixons steps over Comet's bloodied body to nab bonus Xmas sales

Blighty's High Street is in meltdown, but Dixons Retail bucked the gloomy trend and reported relatively decent sales growth over Christmas. The chain reckons it successfully hoovered up trade from fallen rivals. According to figures filed for the 12 weeks to 5 January, sales by the parent of Currys and PC World were up four per …
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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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Dixons: We had a good summer, though southern Europe was a drag

Unleashes corrective action for Europe's bottom bit and web shop PIXmania

Dixons bigwig dispatched to salvage gadget souk PIXmania

Updated Retail chain coughs up €10m for larger stake in loss-making arm
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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 …
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Horde of customers storms Dixons – too late to save 2012 sales

A late flurry of consumer spending in the UK boosted Dixons Retail's Q4 sales but came too late to prevent a full-year fiscal 2012 decline, the firm revealed in a trading statement. Same-store revenues fell 3 per cent in the retailer's financial year ended 28 April but were down 1 per cent over the half-year period and actually …

Dixons keeps wolves from the revolving credit facility door

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

Dixons Retail boss pockets £1m in face of consumer meltdown

Browett takes big pay cut but walks away with a smile

Best Buy fires parting shot at Dixons with closing down sale

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

Apple retail boss Browett bags $1.74m of shares

First wave of signing bonus - now another $59.2m to come

Rampaging Brit looters cost Dixons £4m

Chain's losses narrow but widen at group level

Dixons to set up concession in Harrods

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

Dixons predicts Olympics will boost sales

Beach volleyball in 3D ought to shift some tellies

Dixons whacked by profit warning

Blames the miserable British consumer
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Cashless Comet to close 41 stores, axe 500 jobs

Collapsed electricals retailer Comet is to shutter 41 stores over the next fortnight, administrator Deloitte has confirmed. So far Dixons Retail and Maplin are among the rivals circling the fallen retailer, although it appears the two are interested in just a handful of stores. As a result the closing down process began at 27 …

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Eddie Pacey

Does it do what it says on the tin? Credit insurance, that is
Funnel of cash. Credit: via SXC – http://www.sxc.hu/profile/Leonardini
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Dale Vile

Corporate decision-making's got nowt on non-techie MDs

Alexandre Mesguich

Cloud, virtualisation, mobile tech require fatter pipes

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