Oceania
Thorn operates 70 Radio Rentals stores within Australia, and 28 stores in New Zealand under the name DTR.
An independently owned chain operates 19 stores within South Australia; however is not in any way related to Radio Rentals owned by Thorn Australia PTY LTD.
In 2008 the Thorn Group, who operates Radio Rentals, launched Big Brown Box; an online retailer of brown goods and consumer technology gadgets. The site later expanded to include computers and whitegoods. Thorn Group decided to offload the business in November 2010, with the CEO, John Hughes, saying that while Thorn Group "still believes strategically in online and the potential of BigBrownBox.com.au" the company had to take a pragmatic view on the business given the group's limited resources.
Big Brown Box was later purchased and relaunched by Appliances Online.
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