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The Carphone Warehouse

Company nameCarphone Warehouse Group PLC
Company typePublic
Sloganyour phone, your way
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded1989
HeadquartersUK London, England, UK
Key peopleRoger Taylor, CEO
Charles Dunstone, Chairman
ProductsHome and Mobile telephone&
equipment and services
Revenue£1,385 million (2009)
Operating income£137 million (2009)
Net income£550 million (2009)
Employees4,055 (2009)
SubsidiaryBest Buy Europe (joint venture with Best Buy)&
Virgin Mobile France (47.5% holding)

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Carphone Warehouse Group PLC (Lse - CPW), known as The Carphone Warehouse, is Europe's largest independent mobile phone retailer, with over 1,700 stores across Europe. They are based in the United Kingdom. Outside the UK and the Republic of Ireland, the retailer is named The Phone House.

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OK! Magazine launches Celebspotter iPhone app - Recombu Tweet this news
Recombu--Compare deals from O2, T-Mobile, Vodafone, 3, -Carphone Warehouse- and many more to find a bargain! Jump to a phone by selecting a make and model or search ... - Date : Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:33:15 GMT+00:00
ZX Spectrum gets an iPhone emulator app... with Chuckie Egg! - Recombu Tweet this news
Recombu--Compare deals from O2, T-Mobile, Vodafone, 3, -Carphone Warehouse- and many more to find a bargain! Jump to a phone by selecting a make and model or search ... - Date : Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:44:20 GMT+00:00
Carphone buys software to cut online fraud - Retail Week Tweet this news
Retail Week---Carphone Warehouse- is to use Accertify's Interceptas software in its attempt to prevent online fraud. We provide a range of advertising opportunities. ... - Date : Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:40:31 GMT+00:00
Samsung Galaxy i5500 Europa coming to the UK, via Carphone Warehouse - EuroDroid (blog) Tweet this news
EuroDroid (blog)--Here's the Galaxy i5500 Europa, which -Carphone Warehouse- says it's stocking exclusively online: -Carphone Warehouse- says the Europa is due in July, ... - Date : Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:39:42 GMT+00:00
iPhone 4 Sales Already Surpassed 1.5 Million - ITProPortal Tweet this news
ITProPortal--In the UK, many retailers in the capital including the likes of -Carphone Warehouse- and Phones4U have already run out of handsets while mobile phone ... - Date : Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:37:56 GMT+00:00
Accertify Is Selected by The Carphone Warehouse for Online Fraud Prevention - PR-USA.net (press release) Tweet this news
PR-USA.net (press release)---Carphone Warehouse- Group plc is in a joint venture with Best Buy Europe Group and has a significant interest in Virgin Mobile France. ... - Date : Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:02:32 GMT+00:00
UK Receives Just 16000 iPhone 4 - Mobile Clues (blog) Tweet this news
Mobile Clues (blog)---...- 16000 iPhone 4s to sell, which have to be spread out between the Apple Stores, O2, Vodafone and Orange outlets, plus -Carphone Warehouse- and Phones4U. ... - Date : Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:14:57 GMT+00:00
HTC Wildfire deals now available on O2, Orange and Three - DialToSave Blog (blog) Tweet this news
DialToSave Blog (blog)--All of the current offers are from subsidiaries of -the Carphone Warehouse-: OneStopPhoneShop and e2save. That means all the cashback offers are backed up by ... - Date : Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:38:37 GMT+00:00
AOL broadband deal ends in three days' time - Top 10 Broadband Tweet this news
Top 10 Broadband---...- set-up and 24-7 online technical support. AOL is owned by fellow internet service provider TalkTalk, which recently demerged from -Carphone Warehouse-.--- - Date : Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:59:55 GMT+00:00
iPhone 4 agony for non-O2 customers in UK - The Tech Herald Tweet this news
The Tech Herald---...- to make an iPhone 4 purchase through O2 stores, along with outlets of -Carphone Warehouse-, Best Buy, Phones4U and official Apple Stores from June 24. ... - Date : Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:42:25 GMT+00:00

Year Month Event
1989 The Carphone Warehouse launched
1994 Carphone Warehouse Insurance launched
1996 First Phone House stores open outside of the UK, in Paris and Dublin
1999 January Acquisition of Tandy (UK only) for £9m
2000 July IPO on main market of London Stock Exchange at a price of GBP£2.00 per share
2001 June Acquisition of Cellcom for £9.1m
2002 Acquired Opal Telecom
2003 TalkTalk brand launched
2004 January Acquisition of e2save for £4.7m
March Acquisition of Xtra in Spain for £11.6m
November TalkTalk Broadband launched
2005 March Acquisition of OneStopPhoneShop for £15m
December Acquisition of Tele2 for £11.5m
Acquisition of One.Tel for £169.6m
2006 April "Free" TalkTalk broadband offer launched
October Acquisition of the access business of AOL UK for £370m
Vodafone switches its contract business to Phones4U
November | Launch of a MVNO in Spain under the brand "Happy Móvil"
2007 January Suspension of the Big Brother sponsorship deal.
May Roll out of Geek Squad nationwide.
June Three-year £7million X Factor sponsorship deal signed.
July Carphone Warehouse offers free laptop with AOL Broadband (counter-offer of PC World's free laptop with Orange Broadband deal).
September The Carphone Warehouse joins the FTSE100
2008 May Carphone announces £1.1bn merger with Best Buy
2010 March Carphone and TalkTalk split to create two separatel publicly listed companies



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