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- Will Dunstone's Gamble Pay Off?
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Carphone rings up a rise on Dunstone bid talk
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-04-05
- Earnings: Carphone Confirms Split; iPhone/Dongles Drive Mobile; AOL UK Haemorrhaging
- 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...
- External links 2008-11-18
- Ross Resignations a Necessity
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- Honeywell selected for Australian ADS-B Programme. (International/Industry).
- Airservices Australia AsA has selected Honeywell to provide avionics and ground equipment to demonstrate ADS-B for commercial and general aviation use in a region near Bundaberg, Queensland. AsA's ADS-B ... Airservices Australia AsA has selected Honeywell to provide avionics and ground equipment to demonstrate ADS-B...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Evening Standard, London, Anthony Hilton Column.
- 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. ...
- Research articles 2002-01-23
- Industry Moves: David Ross Quits UK's Carphone Warehouse
- 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...
- External links 2008-12-08
- Online Retail: A Quarter of Argos Customers Can't be Wrong
- There's been some discussion over the place of online shopping in retail over the last few days, which is particularly timely with Home Retail Group, the owner of Homebase and Argos, mentioning over 25 per cent of its sales now comes from online channels. This is against...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- SAILING: Christie makes dash for dry land
- A winner, but not a record breaker, the sprinter Linford Christielooked thankful when he stepped ashore after seven hours on the round-the-world racing yacht Hoya 60 yesterday, after contesting the 63rd Hoya Round the Island Race, writes Mike Turner. "We didn't break the record, but we won. That's what is...
- Research articles 1999-06-27
- Outlook: Wood helps Halifax to steal a march on rivals
- THERE SEEMS to be life in the old girl after all. For the past few days, Halifax has kept up a steady stream of pre-results announcements, each one deliberately designed to upstage anything its competitors might have to offer. On Wednesday, it managed to eclipse results and internet initiatives from...
- Research articles 2000-02-18
- Carphone struggles with broadband demand
- It has now been a month since Charles Dunstone put the cat among the pigeons by offering a "free" broadband service to anyone willing to sign up to The Carphone Warehouse's "Talk-Talk" service. Since then, anecdotal evidence suggests that it has not all been plain sailing, with potential customers reporting...
- Research articles 2006-06-05
- Business News IN BRIEF: PartyGaming in dot.com rich list
- The four founders of PartyGaming dominate a list of the richest new economy millionaires, a study will show this week. They are in the top 10 of the 200 richest dot.com entrepreneurs in the survey by Credit Suisse and Real Business magazine. The mobile phone entrepreneurs Charles Dunstone, John Caudwell...
- Research articles 2006-06-19
- STOCKS FOCUS: CARPHONE WAREHOUSE
- CARPHONE Warehouse hit the headlines when co-founder David Ross resigned as its co-chairman, and then later quit as chairman of transport group National Express over his use of personal share holdings to borrow millions of pounds. A member of the family that started the Grimsby-based Ross frozen fish brand, Ross...
- Research articles 2008-12-14
- Lobbying leads to harder stance on net piracy
- Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, yesterday hardened the government's attack on online piracy . The move came after lobbying by the film and music industry over concerns that the digital economy bill provides an in-suf-ficient deterrent.The government took the unusual step of adding to an ongoing consultation a proposal...
- External links 2009-08-25
- Sainsbury executive to run TalkTalk
- Carphone Warehouse has hired the head of J Sainsbury's convenience stores to run its telecoms business. Dido Harding will join the telecoms retailer and broadband supplier in the new year as chief executive of Talk Talk. The outstanding executive position was created by the group's upcoming demerger. Carphone is expected...
- News items 2009-12-16
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