Darty (formerly known as Kesa) CEO Thierry Falque-Pierrotin steps down by "mutual agreement" as like-for-like (LFL) revenue growth remains virtually flat for fiscal Q1 2012.
Chief Executive for the past 4 years, Falque-Pierrotin will leave the retailer on December 2012 once Darty Group review is complete. The board is already looking for a successor, and will announce a choice "in due course."
Falque-Pierrotin claims he "greatly enjoyed" leading the Darty Group, even if the shadow of revolt covers his leadership period. How come? Darty shareholders were not too happy the retailer gave Falque-Pierrotin a "golden hello" worth £720000 in shares-- a gift of sorts later described as a "mistake."
Moving on to Darty performance, the retailer says "All our markets have remained challenging" with Darty France revenues down by -1.2% (-2.5% LFL) due to a weak Vision market. "Other" established businesses (BCC, Vanden Borre, Datart) grow by 7.1% LFL, with strong growth in the Netherlands and Belgium thanks to "very strong" multimedia sales.
"Developing" businesses (Darty Italy, Turkey, Spain) grow by 2.1% LFL.
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SpeakerCraft describes Synergi as "a no-new-wires retrofit solution" designed to help customers avoid the hassle and expense of hardwired multiroom installations.
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The Belgian designer and members of her design and production team also got to wear the glasses at he event as part of "DVF through Glass," a video project Google will showcase on YouTube later this week. "Beauty, style and comfort are as important to Glass as the latest technology... We are delighted to bring Glass to the runway together with DVF," Google co-founder and Glass "key leader" Sergey Brin says. Perhaps predictably, Brin also showed up at the fashion show wearing a pair of the AR goggles.
It remains mostly the same to what was seen at Computex, if with one major difference-- the battery is out. Otherwise it is still 22-inch Android 4.0 AIO PC with a 1920x1080 touchscreen and a dual-core OMAP 4 processor.
