Best Buy to expand Best Buy Mobile concept

MINNEAPOLIS Best Buy announced that because of the success of Best Buy Mobile, it will extend its relationship with The Carphone Warehouse Group, and will expand the concept into Canada, China, Mexico and Turkey.

The international expansion will be lead by Charles Dunstone, ceo of Carphone Warehouse.

On May 8, Best Buy and London-based, The Carphone Warehouse Group agreed to form a new venture, in which the two companies will each own 50% of Carphone's retail business comprising all the 2,400 stores, the Web and direct businesses, the insurance operations, and its airtime reselling businesses.