ELECTRICAL retailer Dixons is to create more than 1,000 jobs in the next year, it said last night.
The group said most UK regions would benefit from the move, and the extra jobs would be mainly in existing stores or new outlets.
Dixons said they would include 100 in Yorkshire, 100 in the North, more than 100 in London, 200 in the South, 150 in the South-East, 120 in the West and Wales, and about 40 in the Midlands. The group employs 33,500 in 12 European countries.
Chief executive John Clare said: ''Our continued employee growth reflects the continuing demand for the innovative consumer technologies that we sell.''
Last week, Dixons reported a seven per cent rise in underlying pre-tax profits for the past year but flat like-for-like sales - hurt by the fall in demand for mobile phones and continued weakness in the PC market.
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