Rumbelows

Former UK electrical retail store that once rivalled Currys, Dixons and Comet before Thorn EMI, Rumbelows? owner, decided to pull out of the electrical retail business in 1995, closing all of the Rumbelows stores and selling many of the then former stores to the German PC retailer Escom. Escom itself then subsequently ceased trading in 1996 following financial difficulties.

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