News Domestic | Appliance | Dixons Retail | News Dixons Closes Pixmania Stores
28 February 2013

Dixons Closes Pixmania Stores

Reuters reports this morning that Dixons Retail is to close all of its Pixmania stores and to scale back its online presence as part of a turnaround plan for the ailing Pixmania brand.

Pixmania, which sells a wide range products range home including domestic appliances, has weighed on Dixons by struggling to make money in austerity-hit southern European markets.

Dixons, home to the Currys and PC World chains in Britain, Elkjop in Nordic countries, UniEuro in Italy and Kotsovolos in Greece, has closed around 30 Pixmania outlets, including stores in Spain, Portugal, Belgium and France, a spokesman told Reuters.

Pixmania's online stores in those countries will continue but the company has exited 12 online markets across Austria, Switzerland and eastern Europe. It will now operate in 14 online markets in total.

In August Dixons took day-to-day control of the unit in order to step up plans to restructure it and stem operating losses which rose to £17.1 million. Dixons also took a 45 million pound writedown on the value of the unit.

Add comment

Please do not use the comments box if you need the following.
With notes on where to get the best help at the end of each line:
Spares Help - From the store "Contact Us" option or spares@ukwhitegoods.co.uk
Technical Help - Please use the forums
How To Repair Problems - Please use the forums


Security code
Refresh

 

RSS Newsfeed
Click to here subscribe to our RSS newsfeed to get all the appliance news stories we publish

Find A Local Repair Engineer

Find a domestic appliance service engineer to repair your washing machine, dishwasher, cooker, oven, fridge or any other major domestic appliance
Click here to find an approved service engineer to repair your appliance

Spare Parts

Appliance spares for washing machines, washer dryers, cookers, ovens, hoods, dishwashers and all other major appliances

Click here for appliance spare parts in our store

email us on spares@ukwhitegoods.co.uk for appliance spare parts

Or call on 0845 172 8002

Support Forums

Appliance help and support forums where you can talk to actual domestic appliance engineers about washing machines, cookers, dishwashers, fridge freezers and more
Click here get help, support or advice for your appliance from experts in our forums

Can't Find It? Need More Help With Your Appliance? 

Getting help, buying spare parts or getting a service engineer for your appliance can be confusing as you try to pick your way through model numbers, serial numbers, ranges and all sorts of information. We try to make finding good information, trusted repair engineers and correct spare parts all at the best price as simple as possible for you.

Get technical help for your washing machine, dishwasher, cooker and other appliances in our help and support forums To get technical help with your appliance then please click here for our support forums for more appliance help
Get spares help and advice for washing machines, dishwashers, ovens, tumble dryers and more from our spare parts experts Contact us for appliance spare parts using our online contact form, simply click here for help with appliance spare parts

Get More Appliance News And Information

Find even more information on appliance faults, spare parts and repairs using the custom Google search below which will search our forums, the spare parts store and all appliance news articles and other content on the UK Whitegoods website.

Loading