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Sir Charles Dunstone (born in 1964) is the founder and CEO of The Carphone Warehouse Group plc.
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Career
In 1989 Dunstone founded The Carphone Warehouse Group plc, which merged with Dixons in August 2014 to become Dixons Carphone.[1]
In February 2000 he was appointed as a non-executive director of Halifax and following the merger of Bank of Scotland and Halifax in September 2001, Dunstone was appointed as a non-executive director of HBOS plc.[2]
Dunstone was appointed to the board of the Daily Mail and General Trust in 2001 as an independent non-executive director [3]
Politics
Support for Labour
In 2005 Dunstone was one of 63 business people who signed a letter supporting the UK Labour Party.[4]
Letter to the Telegraph
On 1 April 2015 Dunstone was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.[5]
Affiliations
- Royal Parks, trustee.
References
- ↑ Forbes Charles Dunstone, accessed 2 April 2015.
- ↑ Bloomberg Charles W. Dunstone, accessed 2 April 2015.
- ↑ DGMT Board of Directors, Board Profile accessed 23 January 2009.
- ↑ Christopher Hope and Steven Swinford Tony Blair's former business backer Sir Charles Dunstone 'frightened' by Ed Miliband winning election Telegraph, 5 February 2015, accessed 2 April 2015
- ↑ Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 2 April 2015.
