After a bumpy ride over the past few months, shares in Carphone Warehouse shot to the top of the FTSE 250 leader board on rumours that chief executive Charles Dunstone is preparing to bid to take the group private. Although Monday's statement included an increase of approximately...
Charles Dunstone clearly understands that innovation -- and disruption -- is the route to ongoing success. His sale of 50 per cent Carphone Warehouse's retail business to US electronics retailing giant Best Buy is the latest in a series of bold moves by its founder and CEO...
David Ross's resignation from Carphone Warehouse has been swiftly followed by other board departures, this time from the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games LOCOG and National Express. Ross was appointed to Mayor Boris Johnson's 2012 planning board (it's an unpaid role) in May this year. But...
Motorola and Nokia may have given investors a fright with disappointing sales projections last week, but it seems that Carphone Warehouse can't stop growing, writes Roger Trapp. The firm founded by Charles Dunstone in 1989 with a pounds 6,000 investment epitomises the sort of enterprise that the...
By Anthony Hilton, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 23--CARPHONE CONFOUNDS THE CRITICS WITH QUALITY: Carphone Warehouse, which was widely dismissed as one of the more transitory products of the dot-com mania, is in fact turning into one of its finds. ...
Carphone Warehouse profit dropped by 11 percent to £39 million ($58 million) between April and September but, in answer, the group on Tuesday confirmed plans to split itself in two - the Best Buy Europe electronics retailer, created when the US giant bought half of Carphone for $2.1 billion...
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David Ross, the co-founder of UK's largest mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse, has resigned from his post as deputy chairman after he failed to disclose he had pledged his shares in the company to secure personal loans, Reuters reports. Ross, who owns a 19 percent stake—or 136.4 million shares--in...
