Showing posts with label PC CITY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PC CITY. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

PC City store opens on same day firm pulled plug on Spanish venture

SPAIN (Agencies) We announced that PC City was closing down operations in Spain on Friday (see item here). But a brand new shop in A Coruña, Galicia, got caught with its computers down. Barely half an hour after the latest PC City store opening, the company announced its decision to end its Spanish operations and leave the market. The decision by the British multinational Dixons Retail to close its 33 stores in Spain will leave 1,224 workers out of a job. The last of the popular computer superstores opened on Thursday at 10am at Marineda City, Spain's largest shopping mall. The manager of the A Coruña store, which employed 22 workers aged around 30, declined to comment, but she did express disappointment at losing her job after just a few weeks. Company spokesman Adolfo Lorenzo said the firm had been in Spain for over a decade but only made profits in 2006 and 2007.

Friday, 15 April 2011

PC City closes all 34 stores in Spain

SPAIN (Agencies) Although the store in Los Barrios closed down some time ago, PC City, owned by Britain's Dixons Retails, has finally closed down its operations in Spain. The company announced this morning  that, "after studying all possible options for PC City España, it was decided to start official proceedinmgs to close all our stores in that country." The move, which is caused by a "market downturn" and affects its central offices as well as its online sales operations, according to the company, means that 1,224 employees will be made redundant.