The shares have crashed, profits have followed and there is growing doubt about whether the company has a long term future - but Dixons chief executive pay tops £1 million... more
Dixons Retail takes a £310 million hit for closing its Spanish arm and writing down the value of its Greek arm, while insisting it would emerge as the winner from the crisis in the electricals market... more
Gary Cohn, president and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs, was asked last year by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in the US whether the investment bank had used overnight loans from the Federal Reserve. ... more
Fancy a flat at the top of Centre Point? Former Land Securities development director, Mike Hussey, is close to completing a £120 million deal to buy the 35-storey tower from the administrators, Lloyds Bank... more
A while ago, John Browett offered me this assessment of how Best Buy's mission to ace the UK electricals market was going: "I think they've given up," he said... more
Frank Lampard's wrongly disallowed goal against Germany may have killed off England’s World Cup hopes but it helped Currys and PC World owner DSG International win over customers... more
John Browett, boss of Dixons parent company DSG International, claims to be winning the battle for control of the electrical goods market against US giant Best Buy... more
PC World and Currys owner DSGi smashed City forecasts over Christmas, allowing ex-Tesco man John Browett to say his shake-up of the business is working... more
Bookie Paddy Power normally runs a fun bet titled Premier League Sack Race on top-flight managers losing their jobs. Sadly, it doesn't offer odds on the same thing but for major chief executives...... more
The boss of Britain’s biggest electricals retailer DSG International today dismissed talk of a bleak Christmas for the High Street as the PC World and Currys owner posted a smaller first-half loss than expected... more
The owner of Currys and PC World, DSG International, posted a 6% fall in first-quarter sales today and revealed it has sold its Polish operations for €1 ... more
John Browett, chief executive of Currys, Dixons and PC World owner DSG International, said the group would "emerge from the recession with a compelling offer for customers"... more
Retail: Britain's biggest electrical retailer DSG International sank deeper into the mire as shoppers cut back spending on big-ticket items and wait to buy computers and TVs
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Could electrical retailer DSG International go bust? Some in the City have begun to pose this question as analysts scramble to put a value on the company... more
DSG International is retraining 20,000 of its in-store sales staff in an attempt to radically improve service and save itself from widely predicted doom... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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