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Carphone Warehouse - Over 500,000 TalkTalk customers

September 2004

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After a period of weakness in line with the generally nervous telecoms sector, shares in Carphone Warehouse bounced sharply when it revealed very strong figures for its first trading quarter. In the distribution division (Carphone's shops) retail revenues rose 23.2% to £221.5m, with an impressive 13.8% jump in like-for-like sales growth.   This growth was compounded by the addition of 65 new stores, equivalent to a 23% increase in space growth on an annualised basis.  Total connections grew by 21.9% to 1.22m, driven by strong demand in all categories, with subscription connections up by nearly 26% to 0.6m and prepay connections rising by 18.5% to 0.62m.    The picture was also bri ...

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