Bernard Darty left the electronics retail company with his family name in 1993, after Kingfisher took over. But his legacy as Darty's CEO in the retail industry lived on. Even after the 2016 acquisition by Fnac.
Now the man himself (at age 84) is gone, passed away during his usual winter retreat to Florida. And still his Darty legacy will be with us.
Today, the company employs 26,000 people, including 19,000 in its home country. France is the location of 510 Fnac Darty stores and brings in 72 % of the group's turnover. Abroad, the merger company has 218 outlets.
In 1957, the Darty family — the father and his three sons, Natan, Marcel and Bernard — managed a small store of textiles. The Darty brothers started to sell stock on the pavement to attract customers. In a few days, the stock was sold.
They bought out a neighboring retail shop to expand, a radio TV store. The rest is now history.
The Nex Dual Display Edition is the followup to one of the more unusual smartphones of 2018, the Nex. It features the same curvy design, but removes the pop-up selfie camera for the aforementioned dual-display solution. As such, the three cameras on the back handle all photography tasks, and consist of a primary 12MP camera, a 2MP secondary module and a 3rd f/1.3 lens paired with a time of flight (TOF) 3D module.
To work out what exactly will be huge next year, Ericsson held an online survey on October 2018 of 5097 "advanced" internet users in a number of cities, namely Johannesburg, London, Mexico City, Moscow, New York, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, Sydney and Tokyo. It also makes use of 2017-2018 survey data from the Ericsson ConsumerLab analytical platform, with data from 72067 smartphone users in 50 countries. Anyway, here are the trends:
As the name might suggest, the Raiju Mobile is based on the Raiju, a PS4 controller from the company. It features the same design, with 4 re-mappable "mecha-tactile action" buttons, a hair trigger mode for rapid fire and a dedicated mode switch button for switching connectivity modes and paired devices.
The year coming to a close is a time for both celebration and contemplation, especially when the year was as tumultuous as that known as 2018. In our case we ponder about the year in consumer electronics, so join us as we take a look at what we believe were the biggest stories.
