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Caudwell Caudwell Group, the mobile phone company, has been sold for £1.46bn, with Doughty Hanson acquiring the wholesale distribution division and Providence Equity Partners acquiring the Phones4U chain of shops. 07-Aug-2006 Caudwell Group has sold Homecall, its Manchester-based telephone services business with more than 700 staff, to Pipex Communications for an estimated £43m. 24-Mar-2006 Caudwell, the mobile phone company that includes 350 Phones4U outlets and 8,500 staff, has put itself up for sale with a price tag of £2bn. 10-Nov-2005 Caudwell, the mobile phone group valued at £800m, has appointed NM Rothschild to consider plans for the sale of the business. 22-Aug-2005 Policy Administration Services, the Crewe-based provider of administrative facilities for the insurance services of the Caudwell Group, is planning to create up to 2,000 jobs over the next five years. 25-Feb-2005 Caudwell Group is to close its chain of 52 Must Have It stores, which was previously known as The Discovery Store, with the loss of 400 jobs. 26-Jan-2005 Caudwell Group is to create 1,000 call centre jobs in Manchester over the next 12 months, as part of a £50m expansion project for its Homecall fixed-line telephone services division. 30-Mar-2004 Vodafone is to acquire Singlepoint, the mobile phone services subsidiary of Caudwell, for £405m. 11-Aug-2003 Caudwell Group is considering plans to set up a £10m call centre for its Phones4U mobile phones business at the Celtic Springs business park in Newport, with the creation of up to 900 jobs. 03-Feb-2003 Caudwell is planning to open a further 50 Phones 4u stores this year, taking the total to 350. 26-Sep-2002 Caudwell is planning to open 25 Phones 4u stores across Wales over the next two years, in a £50m expansion drive that will create up to 300 jobs. 23-Aug-2001 Caudwell is said to be considering plans to open a new mobile phone repair factory outside North Staffordshire, due to a shortage of skilled labour in the area. 16-Jul-2001 Discovery Store, the gift retailer, has been bought out of administration by Caudwell Group for undisclosed terms, securing the future of 30 shops and 250 staff. 18-Jun-2001 Caudwell has announced plans to expand its chain of Phones4U mobile phone outlets from 95 to 300 next year at a cost of £50m, which will create more than 1,000 jobs. 07-Dec-2000 Caudwell of Stoke is relocating its Singlepoint mobile phone call centre to Chesterton, while its 20:20 Logistics operation will move from Crewe Hall to a property nearby, as part of a £10m expansion that will create hundreds of new jobs. 01-Dec-2000 Caudwell is creating 50 new jobs at its mobile phone repair division in Newcastle-under-Lyme, having won a contract to repair digital set top boxes. 20-Jun-2000 Caudwell, the Stoke-based mobile phone company, has launched a major expansion scheme to open 78 new shops and create 400 jobs. 14-Mar-2000 Caudwell is to create 500 new jobs at its mobile phones distribution business in Staffordshire, which will benefit sites in Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle and Crewe. 29-Dec-1999 More from the Computers & Electronics sector Related pages: Detica Morse Holdings IQE Redstone Telecom Scantec Personnel Caudwell website: www.caudwell.com The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. Click here for further details Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008