Charles Kalms [SEP] date of birth
Charles Kalms
Charles Kalms (1898?-1978) was a British retailer and founder of the Dixons chains that expanded to become the UK's largest electrical retail chain.
Career.
Kalms opened the first Dixons photographic studio at 32 High Street, Southend-on-Sea. The business was incorporated as a private company called Dixon Studios Limited and registered on 27 October 1937 with share capital of £100.
Charles Kalms had been selling advertising space on the London Underground when he met Michael Mindel, who had a small photographic
Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms
Harold Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms (born 21 November 1931) is the life president and former chairman of Dixons Retail (formerly DSG International plc, Dixons Group). Dixons Retail owns Currys, PC World, Knowhow (in-house services) and various international electronics retailers. Dixons Retail merged with Carphone Warehouse in October 2014 to become Dixons Carphone. He spent his entire career from 1948 working for Dixons, which was founded by his father Charles Kalms in 1937.
He was Chairman of