Dixons, PC World and Carphone Warehouse to disappear in Currys rebrand

The retailer has a lot more than doubled its on the internet organization for the duration of the pandemic pursuing a boom in laptop computer revenue as a lot more folks function from home.

Alex Baldock, main government, reported: “We want the client to affiliate Currys with every thing to do with technology.”

The Currys name will look on a lot more than 300 web pages, 13,000 employees uniforms and a lot more than 300 supply vans following the rebrand is accomplished.

Dixons Carphone will also improve its name to Currys plc on the London stock sector following its annual shareholder assembly in September.

Henry Curry started Curry Cycle, a bicycle-constructing organization, in Leicester in 1884 and later on branched into gramophones, toys and radios. It was renamed Currys and floated on the stock sector in 1927. A ten years later on, Charles Kalms opened the 1st Dixons pictures studio in Southend. The two merged in 1984 after Currys was acquired by Dixons Retail.

The shift comes following Reckitt Benckiser rebranded as Reckitt in March and Standard Lifetime Aberdeen altered its name to Abrdn past month.