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Vodafone and AO extend online retail partnership to bring more choice for UK consumers
Vodafone today signed a new strategic partnership with AO - the leading online electricals retailer - to include new services such as Vodafone Unlimited, its recently launched range of unlimited mobile data plans for both 4G and 5G, as well as VOXI, Vodafone’s youth...
AO Tech Wins Team of the Year Award 2019
Bolton based retailer, AO.com is proud to announce that AO Tech has won the Team of the Year - Large Organisations award at last night’s inaugural Computing Rising Star Awards 2019, beating competition from entrants from across the UK. The Computing Rising Star...
Report shows AO only fridge recycling plant to be meeting UK standards
CO2 emissions equivalent to 100,000 family cars were released in 2017 and 2018 because of poor standards in UK fridge recycling plants, according to an independent study commissioned by leading electricals retailer, AO. The study analysed data submitted by UK fridge...
AO announces new logistics partnership with Aldi
Online electricals retailer AO has today announced that it has partnered with the UK’s fastest growing supermarket / fifth largest supermarket* Aldi, to begin delivering Specialbuys products ordered online by its customers that require home delivery. AO has a wealth...
UK’s First Mobile Phone ‘Slow Lane’ Created for Distracted Walkers
Research reveals increase in distracted pedestrians bumping into each other because they’re engrossed by their phone – with 75% of Brits saying they are guilty of this. 59% of the population think that people spend too much time looking down at their phones in public...
AO launches cheaper and simpler way to buy mobile phones
No stores means lower prices AO boss believes AO Mobile is a “gamechanger” for customers Mobile phone customers today got a new, cheaper choice with a simpler way to buy following the launch of www.ao-mobile.com, from AO - the online electricals store. Customers are...
AO Recycles Millionth Fridge
Online electricals retailer, AO today celebrated the recycling of its millionth fridge, at its state-of the-art fridge recycling facility in Telford. With the majority of these fridges being collected from AO customer homes, when they have a new appliance delivered,...
Fly tipping epidemic: nearly 50,000 white goods illegally dumped in England last year
AO.com has launched a £20 ‘Collect and Recycle service’ to give people certainty about where their unwanted electricals end up Using freedom of information requests, AO.com found that there were 46,927 cases of white goods being fly tipped in the UK Leeds came out on...
AO enters business to business market and appoints Electrolux’s Mark Armstrong to head up sales team
Online electricals retailer, AO, has launched a new Business to Business division, appointing industry veteran Mark Armstrong as its new Head of Sales for the housebuilders sector. Reporting to AO Business MD, Anthony Sant, Mark’s appointment signals AO’s serious...