What is "dixons"

Dixons was an online retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was owned by Dixons Retail plc.

With its origins in a photographic shop opened by Charles Kalms, the chain had a store in most towns and cities across the UK and Ireland. On 5 April 2006, Dixons announced that they were removing the brand from the high street (except in Ireland) and would only be using the Currys brand, branded as Currys.digital. DSG Ireland followed suit in August 2008.

Dixons is a Dutch chain of stores specialising in, as the company likes to call it, 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.

Dixons may refer to:

• Dixons Retail (formerly known as Dixons Stores Group and DSG International), the parent company of many European electronics retailers including Currys and PC World
  • Dixons (retailer), a British electricals retailer and part of Dixons Retail
  • Currys Digital, a British High Street chain known as Dixons until 2006
• Dixons (Netherlands), a Dutch electricals retailer, originally part of the British Dixons, now independent
• Dixon's factorization method, an application of the square factoring method
• Dixons Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada