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Watch: Dixons Carphone’s Seb James on creating a new sort of retailer

By Roland Bodenham and George MacDonald2016-03-18T00:01:00+00:00

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Dixons Carphone was named The Gowling WLG Retailer of the Year at the Retail Week Awards with Oracle 2016. We speak to boss Seb James.

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