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Dixons Carphone - Merger breathes new life into shares

November 2014

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  • Epic Code:
  • DC.
  • Price:
  • 362p
Last month, Carphone Warehouse completed a merger with Dixons, owner of Currys and PC World, to create a high street giant with 3,000 UK stores and sales of £12bn. Analysts have saluted Carphone founder and chairman, Charles Dunston, for executing this deal at a time when bitter rival Phones 4 U, a company which changed hands for £1.5bn in 2006, has dramatically gone bust after all four mobile network operators dropped it within months of each other.Rationale for the deal is to cut costs, drive sales growth and improve customer service. For example, 30 Carphone Warehouse stores will be installed within Currys PC World sites by the year-end. The enlarged group also plans to use its high street presence to offer a click a ...

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