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| Knightline Last week, following the news that Philips had stopped manufacturing TV sets for the American market, I forecast that perhaps the long awaited shakeout of the manufacturers was about to take place. | |
| Knightline I almost choked on my cornflakes when I opened the Scottish Daily Record and read that the manager of an electrical store had been awarded £41,641 after being demoted and transferred for changing his day off and arriving at work late. | |
| Knightline A headline in my local paper said “Man wins payout after credit blacklist blunder – PC World customer was left unable to get a mortgage or credit cards”. | |
| Knightline I have just got back from being in Northern Ireland for a Retra meeting. | |
| Knightline The present turmoil in the banking world seems to be trickling down to independent electrical dealers. | |
| Knightline Two years ago, I happened to be visiting Kiev in the Ukraine, when the news broke that Dixons had an option to buy the Russian Eldorado chain of electrical shops. | |
| Knightline They say there is no such thing as a free lunch, but there is in Scotland, if you belong to Retra. | |
| Knightline The format war is over. Blu-ray is the winner just as I predicted at the outset of hostilities. Luckily, I took my own advice and never sold a single HD-DVD unit. | |
| Knightline The upcoming April Retra conference in Portugal has been fortunate in securing John Clare as the keynote speaker. | |
| Knightline Usually governments do little to improve the lot of small businesses, but many dealers are pleased with the latest changes to business rates in Scotland. | |
| Knightline The new broom at Dixons, John Browett, has called in the Boston Consulting Group to analyse and report on the whole DSGi business. | |
| Knightline The Chancellor of the Exchequer caused a great furore last October, when he proposed sweeping away a vast swathe of allowances relating to Capital Gains Tax. | |
| Knightline Some of my best customers seem to spend more time looking at the youtube.com website than they do watching TV. | |
| Knightline They say a week in politics is a long time but a lot can happen in our trade in the same time. | |
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