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RadioShack Revival Depends On Sprint Suit
RadioShack’s plan to re-emerge from Chapter 11 this year is contingent upon the outcome of a $500 million lawsuit against Sprint. “U.S. electronics retailer...
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RadioShack Alive, If Not Quite Kicking
RadioShack, which entered bankruptcy protection last March for the second time in as many years, is proceeding with plans to emerge from Chapter 11...
Keeping Current
A Radically Different RadioShack Could Emerge From Bankruptcy
A pared-down, possibly online-only RadioShack may ultimately emerge from the retailer’s latest Chapter 11 reorganization, a far cry from the 7,000-plus locations that once...
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IHL Group Debunks The Retail Apocalypse
U.S. retailers are opening 4,080 more stores in 2017 than they are closing, and plan to open over 5,500 more in 2018, according to...
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Independent RadioShack Dealers Unleashed By Latest Bankruptcy
RadioShack’s second bankruptcy in two years may have brought its company-owned stores to the edge of oblivion, but it has apparently sparked a renaissance...
Keeping Current
Signs Of Life At RadioShack
The first new RadioShack store to appear post-bankruptcy has opened for business in Baraboo, Wis. The franchised location joins the 425 independently-owned RadioShacks and 70 remaining...
Keeping Current
RadioShack Brand Will Reportedly Live On
According to Reuters, the buyer intends to license the brand back to General Wireless, the specially created unit formed by hedge fund Standard General...
Keeping Current
RadioShack Closes Last Hometown Store; Creditors Sue Sprint
RadioShack closed its last remaining store in its headquarters town of Fort Worth, Texas over the holiday weekend, as the once 7,000-plus-showroom chain reduces...
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RadioShack: A Post Mortem
The following analysis was posted after RadioShack’s first bankruptcy in 2015. Given the developments of the last two weeks, we think it’s worth revisiting....
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RadioShack Has Essentially Shut All Its Stores
Updated! General Wireless Operations (GWO), which runs the RadioShack chain and website, has pulled the plug on most of its remaining stores. The company said...
Keeping Current
At RadioShack Fire Sales, Everything — And We Mean Everything — Must Go!
As RadioShack continues shutting stores following its second bankruptcy in as many years, apparently everything just short of the kitchen sink is up for...
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hhgregg Gives Notice To HQ Staff As RadioShack Winds Through Bankruptcy Court
It’s still hard to believe that hhgregg is going away. But if we need any further proof beyond the liquidation sales, there’s the company’s...
Industry
Bernie Appel, ‘Mr. RadioShack,’ Dies At 85
Legendary tech merchant Bernie Appel, who was instrumental in building RadioShack into an iconic national tech chain, died Sunday at the age of 85...
Keeping Current
Headquarters Closure A Possibility, RadioShack Warns
RadioShack may have to lay off upward of 150 corporate employees and possibly shut its Forth Worth, Texas, headquarters if it is unable to...
Keeping Current
What Fate Awaits RadioShack’s Independent Franchisees?
RadioShack’s Chapter 11 filing calls for the immediate closing or sale of upwards of one-third of its locations. But what of the 425 U.S....
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RadioShack Files For Bankruptcy, Again
Updated!General Wireless Operations (GWO), the company that runs RadioShack’s remaining 1,500 stores, has filed for Chapter 11 protection, plunging the iconic CE retail chain...
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RadioShack May Be Down For The Count
This could be the last call for RadioShack. General Wireless Operations, the company that runs the approximately 1,500 remaining RadioShack stores, is reportedly about...
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At RadioShack, Profits Are The Prime Directive
The following is an excerpt from the latest installment of TWICE’s Executive Retail Roundtable, in which we gather some of the best and the...
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What’s In Store For RadioShack On Black Friday
RadioShack has weighed in on its plans for Black Friday, its second under the ownership of hedge fund Standard General. The chain has posted...
Keeping Current
Former RadioShack CEO Jim Gooch To Serve As Interim Co-CEO At Lands’ End
Jim Gooch, who ran RadioShack for a year as CEO in 2011, is back in the corner office. Now chief financial officer and COO...
Accessories
RadioShack, Nick Cannon Show Their True Colors With Patriotic Headphone
RadioShack and its chief creative officer, celebrity Nick Cannon, have extended their partnership in time for the Fourth of July holiday weekend with a...
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RadioShack Fills CEO Role With Australia’s Dene Rogers
RadioShack has found a new chief executive in Dene Rogers, a former managing director of Target Australia and one-time president/CEO of Sears Canada, following...
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Dixons Carphone, Sprint Ink Deal To Open Up To 500 Sprint Stores
Sprint and Dixons Carphone, the European cellphone and consumer electronics retailer, agreed to form a joint venture to open as many as 500 new...
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RadioShack, Nick Cannon Launch Ncredible Audio Line
The first fruits of RadioShack’s collaboration with pop personality Nick Cannon took shape in Harlem on Tuesday, where the partners showed off Cannon’s Ncredible...
Industry
Garriques Out As RadioShack CEO
Ron Garriques has stepped down as CEO of RadioShack after nine months on the job. Also leaving the chain is chief revenue officer Marty...
Keeping Current
Golden Age of TRS-80: A Look Back At RadioShack Computers
A trip down Memory Lane … “For over half a century, if you wanted to buy electronics parts and gadgets in the United States,...
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RadioShack Names Nick Cannon As Chief Creative Officer
RadioShack, which is mounting a comeback of sorts, announced Nick Cannon will join as its chief creative officer. Cannon will assist in the development...
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RadioShack Proclaims Its Return In Black Friday Ad
Proclaiming that it’s “back and better than ever,” RadioShack has released an eight-page Thanksgiving/Black Friday digital ad that’s heavy on headphones, hobby kits, RC...
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RadioShack Creditors On The Warpath
RadioShack’s unsecured creditors are on a suing spree, in pursuit of at least $200 million in damages. The creditors include vendors Toshiba and MagicJack;...
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RadioShack Update: Sprint Unpacks Its Bags
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — Sprint and RadioShack are officially roommates. The carrier, which earlier this year forged a joint leasing deal with the chain’s...
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RadioShack Takes On Fresh Debt
New York – Having just emerged from bankruptcy with a new owner and a clean slate, RadioShack is once again taking on debt. The...
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Sprint Teams Up With Dixons To Boost U.S. Retail Presence
OVERLAND PARK, KAN – Sprint is teaming up with European CE retailer Dixons Carphone to build out the carrier’s base of Sprint-branded retail stores...
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RadioShack Dealer: Don’t You Forget About Me
Osage, Iowa — This month’s purchase of RadioShack’s trademarks, domain names, patents and customer data by former majority investor Standard General closes a major...
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Standard General Closes On RadioShack Brand Buy
New York — Hedge fund Standard General, which operates RadioShack’s remaining 1,743 stores, completed the acquisition of the bankrupt retailer’s intellectual property on June...
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Court Approves RadioShack Sale
Wilmington, Del. – A federal bankruptcy court here OK’d last week’s sale of RadioShack’s intellectual property to hedge fund Standard General over the objections...
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RadioShack Saga Continues In Court
Wilmington, Del. — Yogi Berra could have been referring to RadioShack when he famously observed, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” Today federal bankruptcy...
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RadioShack Stores Will Retain Name
New York — Standard General, the company that owns what’s left of RadioShack’s stores, will get to keep its name as well. The hedge...
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RadioShack Trademark Sale Still In Limbo
Wilmington, Del. – A federal bankruptcy court judge here has approved the bidding process for RadioShack to sell its trademarks, online domains, and other...
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Bidding For RadioShack Brand Set For May 6
New York — RadioShack’s intellectual assets, including its trademarks, online domains, patent applications, franchised dealer relationships and, controversially, its customer database, will be put...
Distributors
D&H Reaching Out To Independent RadioShack Dealers
Updated! Harrisburg, Pa. — D&H Distributing is looking to help independent RadioShack owners keep their stores stocked as the fate of their franchise agreements...
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Sprint: We’re Doubling Company-Owned Store Count
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint will more than double the number of company-owned stores tomorrow when it opens 1,435 Sprint-RadioShack stores, the company said....
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Revamped RadioShack Re-Emerging April 10
NEW YORK – Emerging from bankruptcy under new ownership, a revamped RadioShack will begin taking shape April 10 with fewer stores, a slimmer assortment...