Electro World (retailer)

Electro World
Industry Retail
Products Consumer electronics
Website electroworld.com
Electro World store in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

Electro World is an electronics online retailer operating in Sweden. It also operated in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Greece and Turkey, as a subsidiary of Dixons Retail (formerly DSG International), until operations in those countries were sold off.

Electro World operated stores in some countries, and was online-only in others. It arrived in Sweden as an online brand, replacing the PC City website there.[1] PC City's physical stores in Sweden had already been closed down in 2009.[2]

In 2009, the Polish Electro World operation was sold by DSG International to Mix Electronics.[3]

In September 2013, Dixons Retail announced that they would sell the Electro World operations in Turkey to Bimeks, one of the leading specialist electrical retailers in the country.[4] Electro World in Turkey was subsequently integrated into Bimeks. Dixons Retail agreed in May 2014 to sell Electro World in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to Nay.[5]

The online Electro World operations in Greece have been merged with Dixons Retail's existing business Kotsovolos.

References

  1. ↑ "PC City blir Electroworld" [PC City becomes Electroworld] (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 August 2013. PC City blir Electroworld [..] Electroworld har övertagit hanteringen av befintliga kunder till PC City. (Automated translation: "Electro World has come to Sweden! [..] Electro World has taken over the management of existing customers to PC City. ")
  2. ↑ "Mama Mia! Fresh DSGi bother as Swedish PC City stores to close". 26 March 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2013. More bad news for DSGi, as PC City, their Swedish version of PC World, has announced the closure of all eight of their stores
  3. ↑ "Mix Electronics S.A. wykupuje 100 proc. udziałów w Electro World Polska sp. z.o.o." [Mix Electronics SA acquires 100 percent. shares in Electro World Poland Sp zoo]. 3 September 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  4. ↑ "Sale of Electroworld Operations in Turkey". 5 September 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  5. ↑ Jefford, Kasmira (20 May 2014). "Dixons Retail sells Electroworld chain ahead of Carphone tie-up". City AM. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
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