Articles about John Browett

Ousted Apple Store chief Browett is back selling shiny tat for ladies

This time with sequins on though

Apple retail boss Browett bags $1.74m of shares

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

Apple lures Dixons boss Browett to run global retail biz

Takes Cook's dollar to expand store empire

Another Apple retail chief crashes out the door

Third 'great leader' in as many months moves in

UK retail wiz makes $61m by turning up at Apple

The former boss of UK retail chain Dixons found himself - almost - $61m richer on Friday as he sat down at his new desk at Apple. Filings at the SEC show that John Browett took up his new role as senior vp for retail at Apple last Friday. The filings were flagged up by MacRumours amongst others, and can be viewed at the SEC …

Apple axed Brit retail boss for doing his job well - TOO well, perhaps

John Browett must be pinching himself after his stint as Apple's retail veep came to an abrupt and unceremonious end this week, despite stellar numbers from his division of the firm. Just seven months into the prestigious role, the Brit was shown the door for an unspecified reason at the same time as Scott Forstall, senior veep …

Hurricane Sandy stops Apple stock deflating

Canalys APAC As channel guru blows hot and cold over Apple store woes

Apple exec behind Maps and Siri to exit One Infinite Loop

Forstall and retail head Browett to depart, Jonny Ive becomes UI king

Bolton biz kingpin tables '7 figure' offer for Comet website

The future of Comet's stores hangs in the balance: but the business brain behind Appliances Online has tabled a million pound plus bid for the website part of the drain-circling retailer. As previously revealed, Dixons and Maplins are understood to have expressed interest in only a handful of Comet stores as administrator …

Apple axes loyal store staff in Essex, Milton Keynes

Apple is cutting down on UK retail staff at its stores in Milton Keynes and Essex: blueshirted fanbois on short-term contracts will get the heave-ho, sources in the Mac channel claim. Industry talk of layoffs in Apple's shops surfaced in MacRumours earlier this week. Apple has refused to officially comment though a contradictory …

Apple's former retail boss spills magic beans on store strategy

Ron Jonhson on improving icommunities, transforming ilives

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 Retail boss pockets £1m in face of consumer meltdown

Browett takes big pay cut but walks away with a smile

Rampaging Brit looters cost Dixons £4m

Chain's losses narrow but widen at group level

Dixons Retail: A mirror held up to Europe

Southern pain, northern gain, Pixmania ruining it for everyone

Xmas actually accelerates Dixons sales drop

Hardware sellers record 5% quarterly fall in sales

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 UK spent £200m on failed megastores

Best Buy shuttering 50 stores, laying off staff in $800m cost slash

Dixons warns of tough Christmas

Dixons warns on crap Christmas

Dixons predicts Olympics will boost sales

Dixons warns it's getting worse

Dixons to set up concession in Harrods

Dixons done for dumping customer info in skip

Dixons sales ain't all that

Dixons reports huge losses of £224m

Dixons Retail this morning reported whopping losses of £224m for fiscal 2011, after absorbing one-off charges for shutting up shop in Spain and goodwill write-downs of its Greek and online operations. Total group sales for fiscal 2011 ended 30 April including businesses to be closed or already closed fell 2.2 per cent to £8.3bn …