Dixons (Netherlands)
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 A store in 'new style' | |
| Industry | Retail |
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| Products | Electronics |
| Website | www.Dixons.nl |
Dixons is a Dutch chain of stores specialising in what it refers to as leisure time electronics. This means that Dixons does not sell products like washing machines or televisions but does provide things like digital cameras, PC's, MP3 players, gaming consoles and mobile phones.
Originally launched by the Dixons Stores Group plc as nothing more than Netherlands-based branches of the British electricals store Dixons, the Dutch arm of the company was sold to Amsterdam-based company Vendex KBB (now Maxeda) in the 1970s. They changed the store format to what it is now, before selling the company to Dexcom in 2006. There are now over 180 Dixons stores in the Netherlands. The Dutch-based Dixons no longer has any affiliation with the British Dixons Retail Group. In 2011 Dexcom was taken over by Basgroup.
In 2015, to be specific, the 29th of September Basgroup went into administrative receivership. Shortly thereafter, on the 5th of October it was declared bankrupt. The 12th of October word was given to the press Relevant Holdings (owner of the recently acquired Dutch branch of ThePhoneHouse) was to be the new owner of Dixons Netherlands. The decision was made to close 55 of 88 Dixons shops. Weirdly the same circle has been made in Holland as in Great-Britain, being the merger between Dixons-stores and ThePhoneHouse (just like British DixonsCarphone). Albeit this being the same merger, this is purely coincidence.
In 2006 Dutch department store Vroom & Dreesmann opened a small number of franchised in-store branches of Dixons in some of its stores. The number of so-called shop-in-shops has increased to 30 by the end of 2007.
See also
- Dixons UK
- DSG International (Formerly known as Dixons Retail Group)