Mobile World

20:20 Mobile finance director and managing Andy White is resigning after a period of 16 years. Mobile News understands White resigned from the company, which is in the process of being acquired by Brightstar, in October – with an internal announcement being issued today.
 

White’s official leaving date is December 23, and is said to have already accepted a new position outside of the mobile industry. His replacement is currently unknown.

Brightstar has completed the acquisition of UK hardware distributor. Mobile for an undisclosed fee, rebranding as Brightstar.

The acquisition sees the number of countries Brightstar operates in increase from around 38. By following the JV sale – to more than 50. It serves more than 200 operators and 50,000 retailers, and has a local presence in more than 50 countries, including the UK and Spain.

20:20’s European markets include Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Portugal as well as the UK. Mobile currently serves over 3,500 customers with annual turnover of nearly 1 billion pound.

Apple has appointed Angela Ahrendts as the CEO of its retail wing. She will join the iPhone maker in spring 2014.

Ahrendts is appointed as a senior vice-president and then she will be a member of the executives and she will report to CEO Tim Cook. She is responsible for strategy-making, expansion of business and apple retail online store.

 Her appointment comes as Cook attempts for the second time. Last time he hired Dixons CEO John Browett last year. But, his tenure at office has been cut-short. Her decision to leave Burberry has not been taken easily by investors.

Vodafone has agreed a deal for the takeover of Kabel Deutschland subject to full terms and conditions.

The move will see the operator take 76.57% of the German company’s share capital as of this morning (Monday 14 October). Yesterday it was revealed that the two organisations had agreed a €7.7 billion fee.

Vodafone sold its share in Verizon Wireless last month for $130 billion, and the operator has started reinvesting some of that revenue into its European operations. The purchase will see Vodafone Group add cable television subscribers to its customer base, while a £6 billion outlay in Project Spring preceded the acquisition, increasing the network’s 4G coverage in its 5 key European markets to 90% by 2017.

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