{"id":1769,"date":"2021-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/uncategorized\/dixons-carphones-christmas-sales-up-11-as-online-revenues-soar\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:39:01","slug":"dixons-carphones-christmas-sales-up-11-as-online-revenues-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/dixons-carphones-christmas-sales-up-11-as-online-revenues-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Dixons Carphone&#8217;s Christmas sales up 11% as online revenues soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CEO Alex Baldock says Currys PC World owner is &lsquo;winning online&rsquo; as shopping habits change in pandemic <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus &ndash; latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Locked down European consumers bought big-screen TVs, food preparation gadgets and health and beauty appliances, handing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/dixons-carphone\">Dixons Carphone&rsquo;s<\/a> 11% more revenue from selling electrical items over the Christmas trading period than a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The retailer, which owns the Currys PC World brand, said computing and gaming products were also big sellers during the festive period and online sales had grown by more than 120%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/jan\/20\/dixons-carphones-christmas-sales-rise-online-revenues-soar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO Alex Baldock says Currys PC World owner is &lsquo;winning online&rsquo; as shopping habits change in pandemic Coronavirus &ndash; latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Locked down European consumers bought big-screen TVs, food preparation gadgets and health and beauty appliances, handing Dixons Carphone&rsquo;s 11% more revenue from selling electrical items over the Christmas trading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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