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Dixons Carphone plc - Appointment of new Group CEO
Dixons Carphone plc - Appointment of new Group CEO.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 4696C Dixons Carphone PLC 22 January 2018 \n\nDixons Carphone plc\n \nAppointment of new Group CEO \nDixons Carphone plc announces the appointment of Alex Baldock as Group Chief Executive from April 2018, to succeed Sebastian James who has informed the board of his decision to step down around the end of the financial year after six years in the role. Sebastian will be joining Walgreens Boots Alliance later this year.\n \nAlex Baldock is currently Group Chief Executive of Shop Direct plc, the UK's second largest pure-play online retailer, a position which he has held since 2012.\n \nIan Livingston, Chairman of Dixons Carphone plc, said:\n \n\"Seb has made an outstanding contribution to both the creation and success of Dixons Carphone. It is a much stronger company today than when he became CEO of Dixons Retail in 2012 with revenue, profit and customer satisfaction all substantially higher. The Group is now the market leader in eight countries.\"\n \n\"On behalf of the Board and all our colleagues, I would like to thank Seb for all that he has done over the past six years as CEO of first Dixons Retail and now Dixons Carphone. We wish him every success in his new role.\"\n \n\"The Board and I are delighted to welcome Alex Baldock to the Group. He has an outstanding track record in leading large, complex consumer-facing businesses. He's led Shop Direct through one of UK Retail's fastest, most far-reaching and most successful digital transformations, delivering five consecutive years of record financial performance, with strongly rising sales and an almost tenfold increase in profits.\n \n\"We wanted Alex for his strategic clarity, relentless execution and his ability to inspire people to get behind him at every step. We look forward to Alex bringing that leadership to the Group as we build on our market-leading positions.\"\n \nSebastian James said: \n \n\"It has been an enormous privilege to lead this business and to work with such passionate and committed colleagues over the last few years. Together, I think that we can be very proud of the profound transformation that we have seen in Dixons Carphone and the sound footing, custom...