Rumbelows
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Rumbelows was an electrical retailer in the United Kingdom which once rivalled Currys, Dixons and Comet.
For two seasons, from 1990 to 1992, Rumbelows were the title sponsor of the English Football League Cup, a professional association football competition.
The former Rumbelows shop in Whitechapel, Liverpool was the heart of the NEMS empire in the early 1960s, owned by the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein.
Thorn EMI, Rumbelows’ owner, decided to pull out of the electrical retail business in 1995 because of heavy losses, closing all of the Rumbelows stores and selling many of them to the German PC retailer Escom. Escom itself subsequently ceased trading in 1996 following financial difficulties.
