Maplin Electronics | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-19

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maplin_(retailer)


00:00:29 1 History
00:00:38 1.1 Founding
00:01:26 1.2 First stores
00:03:03 2 Expansion
00:03:12 2.1 Move to South Yorkshire
00:04:15 2.2 Far East operations
00:05:21 2.3 Acquisition by Saltire
00:05:44 2.4 Acquisition by Graphite Capital
00:06:01 2.5 Acquisition by Montagu
00:06:54 2.6 Debt free
00:07:09 2.7 Drop ship vending
00:07:28 2.8 Acquisition by Rutland Partners
00:08:32 3 Horizon 2015
00:08:42 3.1 Horizon project (2013 to 2015)
00:09:30 3.2 Service guarantees
00:10:15 3.3 Store expansion
00:10:59 3.4 Product range
00:12:09 4 Demise



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Maplin Electronics, trading as Maplin, was a retailer of electronic goods in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In June 2017, there were 217 Maplin stores. The company also operated an extensive online, telephone and mail order service.
On 28 February 2018, Maplin went into administration, placing 2,500 jobs at risk, and on 25 June 2018 all Maplin stores ceased trading.