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Also, in a flat basic food market, clothing sales increased 10%, and small electricals were up 24%.

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More and more shops were specialising in sectors such as furniture, electricals and retro clothing, he added.

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OpCapita bought Comet last February from Kesa Electricals, which had itself struggled to turn around the business.

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Electricals drove much of this growth but furniture and flooring also did well.

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In the run up to Christmas, electricals retailer Comet collapsed and shoe chain Stead and Simpson announced it was closing 90 stores.

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John Lewis, for example, "did extremely well in electricals", he said.

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Shekhar Bajaj, the head of Bajaj Electricals, the wing of the conglomerate that sells home appliances, wants to start reaching rural buyers directly and cutting out costly middlemen (such as Mr Gurubaran).

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The market leader in electricals and electronics retailing, DSG the owner of Currys has been having a particularly torrid time and has issued two profit warnings since the start of the year.

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You may recall that in the spring I highlighted the plight of Adcocks, a small electricals retailer in Norfolk, brought to the brink of collapse after it bought one of the notorious structured collars from Barclays.

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