The Best Buy Europe Group is a leading European retailer of mobile and other wireless technology and services. It operates 2,453 stores in nine European countries, principally under “The Carphone Warehouse” and “The Phone House” brands.

This business is evolving its existing retail proposition to provide a broader range of products and services associated with the “Connected World”. It is also at an advanced stage of preparing for the launch of a new “Best Buy”-branded “Big Box” store format and online proposition, offering consumer electronics products and services.

The Best Buy Europe Group also benefits from a profit sharing agreement with Best Buy Mobile, Best Buy’s specialist mobile business in the US, which currently operates through 71 standalone stores and dedicated Best Buy Mobile centres in all of Best Buy’s 1,068 stores.